I'm getting very tired of news stories portraying 'abortion reversal' as benign or product of good intentions. It is not. It is dangerous, Dr Frankenstein science invented by abortion opponents who refuse to believe women want to have abortions & don't regret them. #copolitics
Both the American Medical Association and the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists, America's oldest & most respected medical associations, say that abortion reversal is junk science, unethical, and dishonest.
The people behind abortion 'reversal' are not operating in good faith. They are not benign. They are harmful ideologues. The one legit scientific study on it had to be halted after three subjects went to the hospital with severe bleeding.
Abortion 'reversal' amounts to experimenting on and endangering pregnant people in service of political ideology. It is creepy and immoral. Full stop.
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Story leaves out that both the American Medical Association & the American College of ObGyns say "Claims regarding abortion “reversal” treatment are not based on science and do not meet clinical standards." acog.org/advocacy/facts… #copolitics
When North Dakota passed an abortion "reversal" law, the AMA sued because "North Dakota’s law undermines this relationship by requiring physicians to mislead and misinform their patients with messages that contradict reality and science." ama-assn.org/press-center/p…
ObGyn Dr Mitchell Creinin, author of the one scientifically valid study on abortion 'reversal', testified at #coleg that there is no scientific or medical evidence to support it. None. His study had to be halted b/c 3 participants went to the hospital with severe bleeding.
Abortion bans with exceptions for rape, incest, life of the mother, & fetal abnormality are bullshit.
Because the underlying idea is that if a woman has been sufficiently traumatized/subjected to violence she 'deserves' to have an abortion.
And if a woman has been punished by the circumstances of conception, she should be punished by being forced to give birth.
All abortion bans are about power and hatred of women. Full stop.
And as matter of law, abortion bans with 'exceptions' are worthless. One women was forced to continue a doomed pregnancy under the 15 week ban. Another almost died. washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/…
Again, for the 85th time: the bigoted baker's opinion of someone else's choice in a life partner is in fact irrelevant. There's a whole world out there of people living their life different than you that's none of your business.
Shut up and bake the damn cake. #copolitics
Also I didn't notice the bigoted baker objecting to making cakes for people on their second or third marriage, and the Bible talks about divorce a lot more than gay people. His "religious objections" are completely subjective and irrational.
When you're a public/customer service business, you have to follow public accommodation/civil rights laws, including protected classes like LGBTQ Coloradans.
If you don't want to serve the public, get out of the public service business.
Another great piece from @BySajaHindi@denverpost on how, with Roe overturned, Colorado legislators plan to build on the abortion rights protections in last year's Reproductive Health Equity Act. #copolitics#coleg
"Karen Middleton, executive director of Cobalt, said the reproductive rights group has received reports of doctors in Colorado getting called by doctors in Texas threatening to report them because a patient had mentioned they’d provided them with an abortion. The proposed bill
would protect the privacy of both the doctors and their patients from potential lawsuits and criminal charges.
@hollyotterbein@ec_schneider this is a lie. O'Dea wasn't drowned out, he lied about his record on abortion. He voted for *and signed a petition* for a no-exceptions abortion ban ballot measure.
And if you'd called abortion rights groups we would have told you that. #copolitics
We're the ones who found O'Dea's signature on the abortion ban ballot petition.
We've been talking to voters about abortion in Colorado for *14 years*.
I beg you, please stop taking Republican operatives at their word because they don't know a damn thing.
Furthermore, it's *insulting* to tell Colorado voters who strongly support abortion rights that it was spending that did it.
I can tell you grassroots groups here worked their ass off on voter contact, and they deserve credit for doing the work.
Every word of this piece. Abortion bans mean poor women will get poorer and more women and babies, especially in communities of color, will suffer and die. Because abortion bans are about power, not 'life'. #copolitics