Because I am a Woman

rabbleprochoice:

abaldwin360:

A pregnant 16-year-old in the Dominican Republic died from complications of leukemia, according to CNN. The young woman was forced to wait nearly three weeks to begin chemotherapy to treat her disease as hospital officials initially refused to treat her fearing it could terminate her pregnancy. In the end she lost her life and the pregnancy, and may have died because of the delay in her treatment.

Under an amendment to the Dominican Republic’s constitution which declares that “life begins at conception,” abortion is banned, effectively for any reason. The girl’s leukemia was diagnosed when she was just nine weeks pregnant.

Dominican women’s health advocates told  RH Reality Check  this afternoon that while the doctors and the state refused to allow the girl treatment for leukemia, they made her undergo “ultrasounds to show that the baby was healthy and for her to see it moving.”

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This is fucking horrible, and we could see a lot more headlines like this if the pro-life movement had their way.

What’s so “pro-life” about letting the mother and the fetus die? 

But the point is that the baby was born and now has been given life…oh…wait…no…they’re both dead now.

Pro-lifers, I want you to bask in this because this is what you want. This is your fault so own it. Stand up and take responsibility and be proud about what you’ve accomplished in this case: a dead 16-year-old girl and a dead fetus and a grieving family.

Love,

Rabble