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GJ Loft ME CA FL IL NE CT MI's avatar

Thanks for reminding us of this. Why, would someone spend hundreds of thousands of dollars and a dozen years of their lives to become an OB/GYN with the threat of a large fine or jail time hanging over your head if you need to perform a life saving event abortion.

I've read that Idaho has lost over half of the OB/GYNs in the state that specialize in high risk pregnancies. Many doctors are married to other doctors which exacerbates the problem when there is a brain drain.

I agree Patrice, the GOP is blind to many unintended consequences.

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JDinTX's avatar

They don’t care…

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GJ Loft ME CA FL IL NE CT MI's avatar

You're right. When you're chosen leader has narcissistic personality disorder and most of the Party of Trump is unable to feel empathy or love -- yeah this is what you get.

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d horner's avatar

But what are the Democratic operatives in the field doing about all that???? Voters need this information and I fear that they aren't getting it.

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GJ Loft ME CA FL IL NE CT MI's avatar

Convicted felon Donald Trump did hundreds of things to make America suck again. And we hear NOTHING about locking up children in cages after separating them from their parents, or how badly he fucked up the Covid-19 response, or how his 4th year in office was a total and complete economic disaster, or how he is the ONLY President to have fewer people working when he left office than when he started. Or how he listened to the advise of the 3 clowns on Fox and Friends to run his government. Or how he tweeted hate and anger every fucking day.

People are NOT numb to these things. They just need to be reminded about how little CFDT did for 4 years and NOTHING he did ever made America great.

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George M's avatar

You and the rest of us will remind the voting public, won't we?

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Christy's avatar

Apparently many Democratic donors are corporate Dems that don’t like Biden’s growing of the middle class policies of strengthening the IRS and DOJ to go after white collar crimes instead of marijuana possession. They seemed to have believed he was all talk and that he wouldn’t really do it. Now that he has done it they are stabbing him in the back and have joined the criminal Party of fascism to attack Joe Biden

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JDinTX's avatar

Dems are too busy shooting at each other.

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Margaret MacKenzie's avatar

The son of a friend of mine is a high risk OB-GYN in Florida, as is his wife. I believe they went there over 8 years ago for a fellowship opportunity, not necessarily by choice. This doctor was raised Catholic, but I imagine if he decided to treat high risk pregnancies, he would be aware that an abortion may be the correct treatment for a patient. What a conundrum both he and his wife must face in their practice. I haven’t asked his mother for fear of where the conversation may go (she’s a conservative in Orange County, CA) and we don’t speak to each other very often anymore anyway, and not because of politics. Though his career may suffer because of the draconian Florida laws, many women will suffer even more from inadequate medical care all because of pious, self-righteous, narrow minded elected officials with no medical backgrounds.

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