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Escaping Oklahoma for an abortion

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'I'm showing my son mercy' | MSNBC
Poor woman had to drive to another state to abort !

Earlier that month, at home in Oklahoma City, the Davises were told that the boy she was carrying had a severe brain malformation known as holoprosencephaly. It is rare, though possible, for such a fetus to survive to birth, but doctors told them that he would not reach his first birthday. “He would never walk, lift his head,” Jessica, 23, recalled in an interview.
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I guess murder must be illegal in Oklahoma, or something. She didn't mind murder being illegal when it was in her favor, I'll bet.
 
Pygar2 said:
I guess murder must be illegal in Oklahoma, or something. She didn't mind murder being illegal when it was in her favor, I'll bet.
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If you're a fundamentalist christian, no doubt this is a murder. Conservative republicans in that state are pushing ahead with radical measures consistent with the christianity-based ideology. If you were to push the logic to its limit, the couple should be imprisoned for homicide with a minimum 25 years and the baby with holoprosencephaly should be artificially kept alive for a normal human lifetime at taxpayer expense.

Since the consolidation of Republican control in 2010, the state legislature has passed at least sixteen laws relating to abortion, often with “no” votes in the single digits. It’s no coincidence that two of the cases involving women’s health currently hurtling towards the Supreme Court originated in Oklahoma.

“It’s sickened me about the state of Oklahoma, period,” Erick told MSNBC of his family’s experience. “I don’t even want to be in this state.”
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The baby had no chance of long term survival and would be in expensive intensive care for the duration of his short life (not to mention the emotional toll on a young couple). At some point common sense/rationality should prevail... but not in sacrosanct Oklahoma.
 
"The baby had no chance of long term survival" means the murder didn't have to happen. The notion that murder is a form of mercy is strange, since most people would flee a murderous attacker, instead of catching a free ride to the end of life, and Heaven. Somehow the people who think that murder is just fine, never seem to volunteer... And I've never heard of *anyone* who believes in a separate, White, heaven. The fact that people need help does not even logically connect with the idea that murder is OK. "People need food stamps, let's go mercifully murder some people who aren't even on them!" Does that sound logical to you?
 
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