James Finn
1 min readAug 20, 2024

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Have you seen the latest? Two Texas women came close to death because Texas hospitals, fearful of Texas's vaguely worded abortion ban, refused to terminate the women's ectopic pregnancies.

To put that in plain language, the women had embryos growing in their fallopian tubes rather than in their uteruses. There is no good outcome to that condition. No birth will ever be possible. The loss of half of a woman's fertility is, however, a very likely outcome without prompt treatment.

Instead of prompt treatment, the hospitals sent both women home after diagnosing them —to wait ... for ... I don't know what.

To wait until their fallopian tubes burst? So there would be no question that the doctors were not at legal risk?

Well, that is, in fact what happened.

This is the Brave New World anti-abortion religious weirdos have ushered in.

And, no, I'm not making this up, not any of it:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/13/texas-abortion-ectopic-pregnancy-investigation#:~:text=Two%20Texas%20women%20who%20were,hospitals%20for%20violating%20federal%20law.

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James Finn
James Finn

Written by James Finn

James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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