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And yet, “pro life”.
F**king hypocrites.
Pro lifers don't give a shit about the post-born. Hypocrisy in name, but their wretchedness is absolutely consistent and comes from the rot in their cores. At least give them credit for being so predictably, reliably awful, and plainly advertising who the enemy is. It's on the rest of us to know and see them for who they are, and do the right things when when they try to do the wrong ones.
It is pretty crazy that you need a license to drive a car, but not to have children.
At first, I was like 'Fuck Idaho, the cesspool!", but then I did some thinking on the issue. This is probably a symptom of a greater disease: the lack of universal health-insurance. I mean, Idaho has a long history of deregulation, which makes their food and environment a poison; stagnant wages because its Idaho, a long-time Republican mecha; an unaffordable healthcare system, something that plagues this "developed" country; and an insurance system that must prevent covering care because its owned by rich people in a for-profit market. Think on it, we live in a society where someone accused of murder is a hero:
Combine all that and "being tiny" isn't a big enough concern to risk medical bankruptcy.
The babies that died are horrific, but what really got me was:
Maicy was 16 years old but the size of a third grader: 62 pounds and just shy of 4 feet tall. She had suffered from a constellation of ailments: stomach irritation, severe anemia, erratic menstrual periods, a blocked artery, thickened aorta and thinning hair. An autopsy after she died on New Year’s Day 2019 traced it all back to a benign, treatable pituitary tumor.
She was 16. She should have been chasing boys and living life and enjoying herself and doing all the stuff teenagers do. Instead she watched her peers do this, while her stilted ruined body slowly killed her from the inside. For years she watched herself become something utterly wrong and transformed. That poor fucking girl. A benign, easily treatable pituitary tumor. One easy surgery, and she would have lived a long, healthy life. Instead her parents watched her die and did nothing for years.
They should be in fucking jail.
I wonder if they would go to the hospital for bullet wounds? Has someone tested this theory?
bullet wounds?
Just exercising their 2nd amendment rights
I wonder how they feel about abortion though
Another question asked this morning has me thinking about how my parents treated me as a child. I was sick one time and my parents waited until my ear drums burst before taking me to the doctor. Really it was because someone had came by that morning and saw blood coming out of my ears. I don't think they would have ever taken me to the doctor otherwise.
My aunt had rubella, grandparents delayed taking her in until it got bad and it developed into a life long heart disease, don't recall what it was called, but she died young in mid 30s from complications of the heart disease. Left two young children and husband behind, my grandparents never really forgave themselves for it. I think sometimes we forget that adults are just grown children feeling their way through caring for a family, and hindsight can be 20/20.
My parents never wasted a moment feeling bad about the things they did. My burst ear drums were the first of a few times they were willing to let me die without treatment. It took me far too long to realize how terrible they were. They only ever did anything for me if they were getting public credit for it. It was all just a show for them. For their benefit. My 20/20 hindsight is full of moments where I thought they were helping me but instead were exploiting me.
The truth is simple. Some people shouldn't be allowed responsibility for a fruit fly much less a child.
"Hindsight can he 20/20" applies to forgetting a restaurant is closed on Sunday or something, not for deliberately allowing a child to die of preventable disease. They should all be prosecuted for negligent homicide.
Mor(m)on faith (lack of) healings
Religion desperately wants a return to the 15th century and these idiots are more than happy to play along in their little cosplay charade.
Part of me is outraged and angry at such a travesty.
The other larger part of me can't bring myself to care that these idiots are taking themselves out of the gene pool.
All parts of me are sad knowing that in the end this won't matter because they're just going to full Idiocracy and unfortunately their stupidity will overcome all of us.
Except they aren't taking themselves out of the gene pool
Kangas lost his own wife and their last child during labor 23 years ago. Three of his 65 grandchildren also have died.
65 fucking grandchildren.
Out of the 65, they allowed 3 to be ritualistically sacrificed to their own idiocy. They allowed them to suffer horrifically and die in pain. doing nothing.
I wonder if Kangas would go to the hospital to treat a bullet wound? perhaps we should test this theory
Idaho is filled with fucking nut job people.
Idaho is one of the worst states in the country, look at who they voted for
The sad thing is that as I understand it Idaho used to be that old school mind your own business libertarians, wherein they were kinda assholes but they had lines and standards. Sometime in the 70s/80s/90s when the whackjobs started getting pressure put on them in the other western states namely California all the fucked up weirdos more or less overran Idaho which caused it to go from culturally similar to rural San Bernardino in morst areas to what it is now. If you want to see a solid microcosm of this with one town look up how one fucked up christofascist mega church has been trying to seize control of Moscow Idaho.
I mean Ammon Bundy lives in Idaho. That's all you need to know.
Oh im not denying that by any means Idaho is kinda a shithole, even if I do like the surplus warehouse in Idaho Falls. Frankly speaking I want to pull that state more than Utah since in Utahs case it'd just be genocide, in Idahos case it'd probably be closer to a humanitarian mission if you wiped out the cults and helped the kids. Seriously Idaho is fucken infested with cults so bad that the Mormons look benign.
My parents took me to the doctor at the drop of a hat. Of course, this was many years ago, when healthcare was far, far more accessible.
Fuck the filthy rich. They've used their unearned influence and power to twist us against our own children. They're disgusting parasites we'd all be much better off without. Never defend a billionaire, they would never defend you.
Since covid I noticed that we love to think in binary like someone either survives or don't and seem to completely ignore 3rd option which typically is bigger than fatal.
Basically that there are also people who survive disease, but have long term health issues because of it. Some might manifest long after the disease.
Fun fact: the condition RFK's condition where he talks "funny", was documented that it can also be caused by childhood measles.
The horrors of parental hyperindividualism where personal pride and blind fundie faith exceeds reason.
I prefer not to read about anything happening in the US. It's always some horrible shit and it makes me depressed.
This is so wild to me. Like this is very much - intentionally causing bodily harm to the kid - a reason you should have your kids taken away from you.
Just being able to go 6 weeks with a clearly devastatingly sick kid and never once take him to see a medical professional is wild to me.
He was taken from them..
I really have to wonder if doctors would have actually pieced together what it was, given that those symptoms, other than swelling, are present in pretty much every problem. Especially Idaho doctors
Idaho is not real. This is based on a Usenet post I read in 1993.
The right to murder your kids. Freedom!
I guess the baby wasn't faithful enough.
Well they only care about them until they are born.
They only pretend to care until they're born.