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Trisomy 13 babies only have a 5-10% chance of making it past their first birthday.
As god intended! /s
By all means, let's force people through the trauma of knowing their kid will only live at most 16-18 months and will probably bankrupt the family with medical bills.
The cruelty here is off the charts (as the gop intended).
It's such a double standard for the large majority of these people. It's God's will that a baby should be born to suffer and die, but it's not God's will that they die of a heart attack, diabetes, or a simple infection.
If they really believed in God's will, they wouldn't be seeking medical care at all, for they were destined to suffer and die as well.
It's despicable, what they are imposing on these families. If you believe in miracles, put yourself in the hands of your God and wait for one yourself, asshats.
If all the doctors leave Texas etc then they'll have to believe in God's will.
The unfortunate reality is that a lot of doctors are also narcissistic capitalists, they will stay in Texas due to the low tax rate.
Only way around it is to reduce the barrier to entry-aka cost-of medical training. It’s almost limited to just the wealthy, if you can’t drop $150k+ on school, you don’t have a good chance of being a doctor.
So you have lots of doctors who were born wealthy, never struggled, had their education bankrolled, then graduate and have a hyper inflated self worth.
Yeah, let's prolong the suffering of the parents (and the baby) and force them to watch their child either die an early death in front of them, or live on needing care for probably the rest of their lives. During that time the family's finances and mental fortitude will be strained to their utmost limits, likely destroying the marriage and family in the process. This is surely the life that God intended.
Don't forget the added stress of health insurance claims being denied and accumulating medical debt.
Thanks conservatives, making the world a little worse one day at a time
Let's not kid ourselves.
They'd make it worse two days at a time, if given the opportunity.
Abortion is all about not kid-ding ourselves.
Oh, god dammit
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Tennessee responded with their own brief that read, "Yes, exactly. That is literally precisely what we were going for. Sue us!"
My home state once again proving America's push towards theocracy.
I think it is VERY IMPORTANT to point out:
Cleft Pallet DOES NOT EQUAL Trisomy 13
Also important, Trisomy 13 is terrible and Texas is wrong:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7282771/
ABSTRACT: The mean survival in Trisomy-13-syndrome patients is reported to be 130 days. We have diagnosed 21 cases of this syndrome in this institution (11 females and 10 males); 15 patients had regular trisomy 13 and 6 had translocation-trisomy 13 karyotypes. The mean survival of the 19 patients who died was 97.05 days; translocation patients survived longer than regular trisomy patients. The oldest living patients with trisomy 13 are a girl 19 and a boy 11 years old. Both are black, have regular trisomy 13 karyotypes and have had most of the manifestations of the syndrome. No mosaicism was detected in repeated cytogenetic studies. The 19-year-old patient is the oldest known living person with regular trisomy 13.
this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2024
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