Surgical tech here. The single most horrifying thing I've seen in my career was the aftermath of a women who needed an abortion and didn't get one. Very late term. Fetus wound up dying before birth, and the mom didn't know what to do, so she froze up and didn't do anything. Several weeks later, she's septic as fuck, within an inch of death herself, and we end giving her a c-section to deliver a half-rotten baby corpse.

This was before republicans took our Roe vs Wade rights - I never got the backstory on why she didn't get an abortion, but I'd guess it was some kind of religious conflict.

Shit still haunts me to this day.

Today, that kind of thing is happening to women across the nation because the healthcare they need to prevent it has been made illegal.

I wish we could have filmed the surgery and blasted the internet with it. Show every detail in full 4k. Make them listen to the deafening silence in that room broken only by the sounds of surgical instruments at work because all the staff are just mortified and trying to process what the fuck we're looking at. Make them look into the mother's exhausted and utterly defeated eyes pre and post op.

Because ^that is what republicans are advocating for, and it's pure evil. Calling it "pro life" is one of the cruelest lies I've ever heard.

Thanks for taking the time to write this all out. It's inspirational. A good start to a kind of déprogramming playbook.