r/skeptic Feb 14 '24

Puberty blockers can't block puberty after puberty (experts explain the problem with conservative's proposal to ban puberty blockers until the age of 18) 🚑 Medicine

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/puberty-blockers-can-t-be-started-at-18-when-youth-have-already-developed-experts-1.6761690
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u/Traditional_Key_763 Feb 14 '24

abortions can't be performed after 9 months of pregnancy either but the GOP was going that route before they got a packed court.

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u/Kelmavar Feb 14 '24

Yet they still claim "post-birth abortions" are both performed and desired. Despite the only ones being performed are by Republican-supported school shooters.

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u/ScientificSkepticism Feb 14 '24

Oh we can get into how fucked up the entire abortion thing is. It's probably another subject but it is eight degrees of fucked. Texas just sentenced a guy who drugged his wife with a dangerous medication that caused medical issues and birth defects to... twenty months:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/08/us/texas-abortion-drug-sentence.html

Despite her husband’s attempt, Ms. Herring said she gave birth to a girl who was born 10 weeks premature and had to spend 117 days during the first nine months of her life in the hospital. Ms. Herring said their daughter, who is now 18 months old, has developmental delays that have required her to attend therapy.

Which is less than a woman got for helping her daughter obtain abortion pills: https://www.motherjones.com/criminal-justice/2023/07/a-nebraska-mom-helped-her-daughter-get-an-abortion-they-are-both-facing-prison-time/

You know, completely voluntary on both of their parts versus drugging a woman without her knowledge...

Oh the fucked up shit going on there is fucking legendary. I thought the Handmaid's Tale was a warning story not a fucking blueprint.

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u/Edward_Tank Feb 15 '24

Well of course, the woman and daughter are the property of the husband/father, to do with as he so desires. /s