This bill effectively bans all forms of birth control except condoms, other barrier methods, and the rhythm method/pull out method. No more pills, IUDs, emergency contraceptives, nothing. No tubal ligations, so women won’t even be able to sterilize themselves anymore in order to prevent unwanted pregnancies.
It also forces women to undergo an invasive, unnecessary procedure in order to symbolically make pro-lifers….feel better? I guess. Removing an ectopic pregnancy and then placing it in the uterus so she can then expel it is completely illogical. Dislodgment of this NONVIABLE pregnancy destroys the placental connections that have formed, effectively removing the blood supply from the embryo entirely. So even if you wanted to believe it was remotely possible for a removed ectopic pregnancy to be reimplanted into the uterus (which it isn’t), you’re effectively going to be implanting an embryo that is guaranteed to have an anoxic brain injury, at the very least, and this will most likely be occurring at the most critical time in neuro development (the first trimester) for that embryo so what exactly are we expecting to be the outcome should this pro-life fantasy even be possible? Severely brain damaged, congenitally malformed, most likely nonviable babies that the mom then has to watch die after giving birth to. Nice.
You’d literally be cutting someone open to remove dying tissue and then invasively insert that dead tissue somewhere else increasing the chance of infection and other complications.
You can treat ectopic pregnancies that have not ruptured MEDICALLY, with MEDICINE. Avoiding invasive surgery is the standard of care across this entire country. Requiring that doctors perform an invasive and unnecessary procedure instead of giving one to two pills to perform another invasive procedure that has no realistic purpose other than to make men feel better is completely unethical and puts doctors in an impossible position? Sacrifice patient safety and care or lose the license you spent at least 11 years working for, go to jail, and have no way to pay back your 6 figure loan debt?
And, finally, how would doctors reimplant this fetus (assuming it’s possible, which it isn’t)? Would they cut open the uterus and put it in there so she can miscarry “naturally”? Doing so would put her at an increased risk of placenta accreta/percreta, uterine rupture with future pregnancies, and pretty much require any future deliveries to take place via c-section which is major abdominal surgery and carries all of the risks that a surgery like that entails. Cutting the uterus open in the first trimester would require a “classical” c-section cut which puts a woman at all of the risks I stated above.
Would they insert it through the cervix? Doing so would require dilation of the cervix with laminaria and put her at risk of ectopic pregnancy on the cervix in the future.
Look. Even if I supported this law, these are legitimate questions and they should be addressed before legislation like this even makes it to the floor. Physicians and other providers MUST be consulted when crafting legislation that affects medical care. This law is telling doctors it is now illegal for them to offer the gold standard for care for treating ectopic pregnancies or providing the most reliable options for birth control available and is REQUIRING them to endanger patients so a bunch of old white guys who hate women and don’t understand biology can feel more powerful by reducing women back to brood mares.
Physicians should not and cannot be used to enforce state-sanctioned or federal laws like this. These laws are not medically ethical and they are not morally ethical and they violate human rights on multiple fronts.
yknow the more jk rowlings world falls apart in america (race relations, international history, population, etc) the more i like to think that america just straight up doesnt have the statute of secrecy. european countries are falling over themselves hiding magic but come to georgia and theres a drunk redneck wizard wingardium leviosa-ing the shit out of a tractor to the delight of his drunk redneck muggle buddies in a walmart parking lot.
wizard on muggle violence is prevented by virtue of there being like a 50/50 chance that muggle is packing heat. muggle on wizard violence is prevented by knowing that wizard can give you boils spelling LIL BITCH on your forehead if you try to start something.
america is the weird redheaded stepchild of the magic world.
im not gonna stop reblogging this until this is the next Hot Fanon
english muggles come back to england and suspicious wizards meet them at the airport.
‘did you witness any strange or inexplicable acts while you were in america?’ they demand.
the english muggles just laugh in their dumb fucking faces. mate, it’s america.
what’s the difference between a werewolf and an animagus?
english wizard: *two hour lecture on legal history*
american wizard: six beers
@jumpingjacktrash congrats ive read hundreds of comments on this dumpster fire of a headcanon and yours is the best
thank you my patronus is a monster truck
I have reblogged this I don’t even fucking know how many times but I still completely lose it every time I see the words “My Patronus is a monster truck” because that is the most AMERICAN thing I’ve ever seen in 29 years of being ‘merican.
Variant: What with the International Statute of Secrecy being an international law, the American magical community suffered quite a bit at the hands of forcible attempts to make everyone conform to it, until anti-seclusionist magical forces got their hands on the sort of magics being used to hide the wizarding world from nonmagical society, and hid themselves and their communities from the magical government and its institutions.
That’s why Ilvermorny is “the only American wizarding school.” That’s why the American magical population feels like something the size of the British one pasted on something a couple orders of magnitude bigger. That’s why Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them is so white. That’s why nonmagical people have a persistent quiet willingness to believe in magic just enough to allow for the possibility of its existence, and fill their stories with it, and readily interact with the idea of it. It’s an elaborate homegrown smokescreen to hide hundreds of integrated magical communities from the magical community that demands magical communities keep themselves secret.
The forces behind the International Statute of Secrecy made themselves such an absolute nuisance that some 95% of the magical population of America stole their hide-from-the-muggles spells and locked them out of knowledge of their existence.
The International Wizarding Community: “You are now forbidden to let any nonmagical people know you exist.”
Six Gazillion American Wizarding Communities: *Jedi mind trick hand motions* “Fuck you, we don’t exist. Nothing to see here.”
The International Wizarding Community: “Looks like the problem’s been solved, I guess. Pip pip cheerio.”
Six Gazillion American Wizarding Communities And Their Muggle Friends: “OK I’mma cast Engorgio on my tires and invent Monster Trucking, hold my beer.”
My boyfriend of over 2 years sent me a game over skype. He said he wants to try and make Pokemon games since I play them so much. I opened it up and was super excited.
It seemed really well done and was super ready to start on my adventure!
He left a lot of cute notes and tips around town.
He remembered my favorite Kanto starter.<3
I was surprised it ran pretty well. I went on my journey and leveled up my Pokemon!
He showed me support and encouragement through a ton of NPC dialogue.
concept: anakin sitting in the council room bouncing baby luke on his knees as he adamantly denies having children or attachments
And denies the Council permission to induct Luke and Leia Skywalker (no relation) into the crèche.
Leia runs up to him yelling, “Daddy! Look at this picture I drew of you and me and Mommy!”
He praises her artwork and tells her they will put it on the fridge at home, then turns to Mace and says, “I have no idea who this child is.”
all the comments on this post are the best out of any I’ve ever gotten but Anakin looking Mace dead in the eye and saying “I had no idea who this child is” might honestly be the best addition of them all
Padme enters the council room holding a brown paper bag. P: Ani, you forgot you lunch at home. A: Oh thanks honey! (Cheek Smooch) Padme leaves
Windu: What was that master Anakin? Anakin: What was what master? Windu: You kissed Queen Amidala. Anakin: Queen Amidala is here? Windu Alright then what are you holding? Anakin: My lunch, I brought it from home.
I'm just a nerd living my life, and this is my own personal infinite scroll of things that i like. I am such a fangirl of Doctor Who, Supernatural, Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Pokemon etc. etc.etc.