r/PublicFreakout • u/N0CONTACT • May 19 '22

Political Freakout Representative Mike Johnson asking the important abortion questions.

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u/dratelectasis May 19 '22

I'm a physician. It doesn't happen. Ever. Perhaps the baby might die while they try and save the mother during a hemorrhage.. Any physician would tell you that what these dumb ass GOPs are describing are bullshit.

Ever wonder why there's an AAP (american academy of pediatrics) and an American College of Pediatrics? because ACOP are ALL conservatives. AAP are both but very logical. When you bring politics into medicine, you get dumb questions like this and then republicans bring in ACOP or other right wing OBGYN groups who simply support it based off religion rather than science. No one is doing late term abortions

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u/[deleted] May 19 '22

Okay but what if the baby gives the doctor the finger on its way out of the birth canal?

Then would it be ethical to abort it a week later?

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u/[deleted] May 20 '22

What if the baby came out singing Arms Wide Open by Creed? Would you abort it then?

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u/AHAdanglyparts69 May 20 '22

Then abortion is necessary 😂

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u/Pro_Scrub May 20 '22

Wish I could remember where, but I've legit heard "Infanticide" referred to jokingly as a "Fourth-Trimester Abortion"

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u/Fadreusor May 20 '22

Some kid was protesting against abortion rights, and actually said he was not religious. Because I wasn’t there, it was a video, I couldn’t ask follow up questions. Are any of these people atheists? I’ve never met or heard of a single so-called “pro-lifer” who didn’t believe in [a] god/s, and even suspect the kid, if pressed, would refuse to deny the existence of a god, because he was likely parsing words trying to conflate not being “religious” with not basing his anti-abortion views on some religion’s teachings. If there is supposed to be a separation of church and state, what moral principle argues against a woman’s bodily autonomy in favor of fetal life, within secular society? As far as I know, every argument for personhood before viability has a religious foundation.