Judge allows Texas woman to abort fetus with lethal abnormality
www.texastribune.org
Cox, 31, at 20 weeks pregnant, has learned her fetus has a lethal abnormality that is almost always fatal at birth.
    • EndOfLine@lemmy.worldEnglish
      141·
      1 year ago

      I’m confused.

      Can you explain what “orphan crushing machine” means and how allowing a woman to terminate a non-viable that was threatening the life and her future fertility would contribute to it?

      • agent_flounder@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        1 year ago

        To save a click

        Orphan-Crushing Machine is a metaphor for “heartwarming” news stories about someone remedying the immediate effects of a sociopolitical issue that ignore the root cause of said issue. The catchphrase and metaphor satirize these stories by comparing them to a story of a person raising money to keep 200 orphans from being crushed where nobody questions why an orphan-crushing machine exists in the first place.

      • whodatdair@lemm.eeEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        I took it as “It’s depressing that the legal system was involved in this. It’s not uplifting that the judge is making decisions about whether she’s allowed to get a medical procedure.”

      • squirmy_wormy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        111·
        1 year ago

        Copy paste from my other follow-up comment, since the meaning of the phrase was already linked.

        Did you read the article? What is happening is horrific and is still eligible for the state to attempt an overturn or a delay. The whole scenario is disgusting.

        I’m glad she got this win, but nothing about what is happening and why it’s happening is uplifting.

    • toasteecup@lemmy.worldEnglish
      724·
      1 year ago

      So wait.

      Killing a mortally wounded animal is a mercy kill, but killing a unhealthy baby that will die anyway is “an orphan crushing machine”?

      Are you actually advocating for that child to suffer and die anyway?

        • toasteecup@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          1 year ago

          Ahhh new to me meme, appreciate the info. Glad I wasn’t reading what I thought I was cause good lord I’ve had my faith in other people tested too much today

      • squirmy_wormy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        131·
        1 year ago

        Did you read the article? What is happening is horrific and is still eligible for the state to attempt an overturn or a delay. The whole scenario is disgusting.

        I’m glad she got this win, but nothing about what is happening and why it’s happening is uplifting.

        Also, Jesus bud. You assumed I’m not only against abortion but pro suffered birth and yet, somehow hypocritical because I’m pro animal euthanasia from my comment? Lol how?

      • SeaJ@lemm.eeEnglish
        10·
        1 year ago

        No. They are saying that it is fucking pathetic that a judge was required to allow it to happen. Like if they’re is news that someone raised $100k on GoFundMe for necessary surgery: it’s nuts that that was even required to happen.

  • spittingimage@lemmy.worldEnglish
    57·
    1 year ago

    I understand why you’d call this uplifting news if you were local, but to the rest of us it’s like “USA briefly pauses grinding own face under own boot”.

  • Thisfox@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    53·
    1 year ago

    Poor sodding woman, having to go through all that just to be allowed to try to live. Good for her, looks like she might get that chance soon. So much stuff though!

    It’s odd, Americans all make a big fuss about freedom, and about Texas being the place with the most freedom, yet they seem to have a lot of freedom prevention…

    • Zorque@kbin.social
      173·
      1 year ago

      Americans all make a big fuss about freedom, and about Texas being the place with the most freedom,

      Texans are probably the only ones making some claim to high levels of freedom exclusive to Texas, not Americans in general.

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      The sensible among us know that the freedom banter is a bunch of lip service. While we do have much more freedom that than many other places on this planet, the powers that be would love to implement neofeudalism.

  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldEnglish
    45·
    1 year ago

    Courageous of her to hold her ground insisting it gets done in Texas rather than taking the easier way, going to a nearby state to have the procedure done. Courageous of her because pregnancy/abortion is a delicate matter of time, you can’t wait too far into the pregnancy to get an abortion. This made a powerful political statement because it put pressure on the judicial system to come to the right decision and do it quickly.

  • Obinice@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    To somebody in the USA this might sound uplifting given how bad things are there as a baseline in healthcare and women’s rights, but to us Europeans this situation just sounds horrifically dystopian and deeply saddening :-(

    • Thisfox@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Yep. Medical emergencies should be decided by trained medical staff. Not really all that uplifting, hey?