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Remember back when an "illegal alien" murdered a young woman in Georgia and how Republicans shouted at President Biden during his State of the Union speech "SAY HER NAME"? Remember that?
Well now it's time to say her name and say it loud: AMBER NICOLE THURMAN.
Shed taken abortion pills and encountered a rare complication; she had not expelled all of the fetal tissue from her body. She showed up at Piedmont Henry Hospital in need of a routine procedure to clear it from her uterus, called a dilation and curettage, or D&C.
But just that summer, her state had made performing the procedure a felony, with few exceptions. Any doctor who violated the new Georgia law could be prosecuted and face up to a decade in prison.
Thurman waited in pain in a hospital bed, worried about what would happen to her 6-year-old son, as doctors monitored her infection spreading, her blood pressure sinking and her organs beginning to fail.
It took 20 hours for doctors to finally operate. By then, it was too late.
This young woman was murdered. Who will tell her six-year old son why mommy is not coming home? You can bet that Trump, Vance, "Justice" Gorsuch, Justice Beerbong, Justice Holy Roller, "Justice" Thomas, and the rest of the thugs on the not-so Supreme Court will not. You can bet that the psalm-singing, bible-thumping anti-abortion assholes will not.
So how about we say her name: AMBER NICOLE THURMAN.
Eliot Rosewater
(32,164 posts)Demobrat
(9,607 posts)lindysalsagal
(21,889 posts)Deuxcents
(18,509 posts)AverageOldGuy
(1,836 posts)As I was preparing my comment, Lawrence came on and he was on fire while reporting about Amber Nicole Thurman and his own mother. Lawrence almost broke down in tears.
I'm going to search for a video or transcript of his show tonight, it was powerful!!
Deuxcents
(18,509 posts)So check videos..shes real good about getting them out
and a shout out to her for appreciation 🙏
She just posted it..
Rhiannon12866
(216,966 posts)https://democraticunderground.com/132130708
GoreWon2000
(757 posts)I saw the segment you're referring to. It was Lawrence's best A block ever. Powerful doesn't begin to describe it. All of the superlative words together couldn't describe it for me. It was outerworldly! Lawrence laid the blame where it really belongs which is with the Rehnquist 5 who stopped the legal Florida vote count in 2000, trampled the will of we the people and installed their preferred Presidential candidate bushthief who appointed Roberts and Alito. The Rehnquist 5 and bushthief clearly both now have blood on their hands. The only issue I would take with Lawrence's outerworldly monologue is that bushthief's claim that he had no litmus test for SCOTUS appointees was a lie, just like his "compassionate conservative" and claiming to want smaller government. bushthief knew exactly what he was doing when he appointed Roberts and Alito. I was thrilled to see Lawrence hold the Rehnquist 5 accountable for their ending of American democracy in 2000. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of the several hundred thousand legal votes from the most heavily democratic voting counties in Florida that now sit uncounted in the Florida archives. I also ache for we the people's choice for President in 2000 as I've done since 12/12/00. This must be hard on him too.
BOSSHOG
(38,900 posts)How many more will die? Because Donald trump wants to stay out of prison? Hell say anything, court anybody. For a vote. If you or your mother, aunt, cousin, next door neighbor die so zealots, in their tax exempt status, can claim victory then so be it.
Botany
(71,785 posts)AMBER NICOLE THURMAN and her son are coming with 10s of millions of women
and all the people who love em too.
Freedom of Religion also means Freedom from Religion too.
Blue Owl
(53,750 posts)A human being tRump and the GOP dont care about
gab13by13
(23,978 posts)Why didn't they show the funeral with Amber's 6 year old son, crying for his mom?
Can Amber's family sue someone? Banning this D&C had nothing to do with abortion, it had to do with saving the life of the mother.
Fuck TSF and his Magat cult.
Demobrat
(9,607 posts)Well see if it stays in the news longer than tfgs latest assassination attempt
gab13by13
(23,978 posts)Demobrat
(9,607 posts)iluvtennis
(20,477 posts)Deadline Whitehouse earlier in the afternoon.
Rhiannon12866
(216,966 posts)https://democraticunderground.com/132130696
Jack Valentino
(436 posts)an assassination attempt....
Or maybe the suspect was only hunting squirrels---
Of course, if you put a tanker's helmet onto Don-OLD Trump's head,
he might look more like Rocky the squirrel than Michael Dukakis did!!!
I have an interesting idea.... If the suspect in question was not a convicted felon
who was also in possession of a weapon from which the serial numbers had filed off,
what charge could anyone have to hold him??? Those are the only charges filed,
as of this time.
In Florida I believe, it is no crime to walk around in public with such a weapon
(that's right, isn't it, DU lawyers?? Isn't Florida an "open carry" state?)
He didn't actually fire the weapon at any target, so there is no real evidence of "intent"--
(at least none that has been made public so far). He was only "in the vicinity" of Trump,
with a gun--- which, so far as I know, would not be a crime in the state of Florida
(except for the fact that he is a convicted felon not allowed to possess firearms)
SunSeeker
(53,147 posts)Maraya1969
(22,912 posts)Remember the hypocratic oath? First do no harm
LoisB
(8,013 posts)Raiden70
(2 posts)...the Marxist/Communist Ceaușescu years in Romania, with regard to abortion? Or know of any woman relative that did?
(I saw what I did there...Marxist/Communist. Who's been vomiting up those words recently? If the shoe fits...)
Hekate
(93,551 posts)But if you want people to be informed inform them. Theres a lot of Americans who were not yet born when the Ceaușescus reigned or were overthrown. They need to know,
slightlv
(3,726 posts)heartbreaking. The fundigelicals have no real idea what they're doing. They have a "concept" of a world they want to see... and then they want to blow it up. They're well on the way to doing just that.
I don't understand why the doctors wouldn't do a D&C on Amber. She already taken abortion pills, so it was going to be an abortion. I know the legal penalty is high, but it was even a damned abortion at that point. It was an damnable infection. I just don't understand. In some ways, this period of time we're in right now is actually worse than in the 60's and 70's pre-Roe. At least then, you had doctors brave enough to fight the system and FOR the women.
Fla Dem
(25,194 posts)Say her name!
LetMyPeopleVote
(151,967 posts)republianmushroom
(16,465 posts)kwolf68
(7,633 posts)This is limited government...hold on.
DENVERPOPS
(9,606 posts)politicians practicing medicine with out a license...............
brewens
(14,972 posts)crap and make it pay!
ck4829
(35,596 posts)Fla Dem
(25,194 posts)lindysalsagal
(21,889 posts)We're not going back.
bdamomma
(65,126 posts)was actually in tears about this woman's needless death. The felon and George W Bush were mentioned numerous times. There's a full assault on women we must RISE UP!!!!
Mad_Dem_X
(9,719 posts)Heartbreaking and infuriating!
Prairie_Seagull
(3,541 posts)soldierant
(7,642 posts)Candi is another victim of Georgia's laws. She was warned that another child could kill her. She didn't intend to get pregnant, but she did. She would not seek medical assistance because of stories like Amber's. And she died. At home.
https://www.propublica.org/article/candi-miller-abortion-ban-death-georgia
We could make a new wall like th VietNam wall with the names of these casualties.
slightlv
(3,726 posts)It would remind future generations of girls and women not to take their freedom so blithely, as well as honor those who have died from lack of care.
crosinski
(517 posts)4catsmom
(52 posts)for the party of murder. Trump has her blood on his hands, as do all the religious whack jobs enabling him and supporting this legal form of murder. Party of life my a$$. I'd like to make sure any male who causes an unwanted pregnancy meets the same fate as the mother who is denied reproductive heatlhcare.
kwolf68
(7,633 posts)for the PRO LIFE party to have comment.
Lets just cut to the chase, this is not pro life, it's PRO FORCED BIRTH and a PRO CONTROL WOMEN political party. Time to dump this trash.
DENVERPOPS
(9,606 posts)Every Doctor involved violated their Hipocratic? Oath.....ie : Do No Harm............
Good thing they didn't do it on some wealthy young woman, the family would sue them all to oblivion. Doctors, Hospital, Administrators, etc etc etc........and then send the proceeds to Planned Parenthood to make a statement.
I lived in the pre R vs W period.........Rich girls suddenly went to study for a semester abroad, always in a *Scandinavian* country. Either that or had a "legitimate" D&C by the rich family's physician. Middle and lower class girls went to a home for un-wed mothers, or got a back alley abortion by some med student, untrained in the procedure, often ending up in massive hemorrhages, or massive infections, needing to be treated in a hospital's ER........
slightlv
(3,726 posts)I honestly didn't think we'd be revising them while I'm in my 60's. What's happening today is frustrating, enraging, but knowing Alito threw our freedom out the window of some 16th century monk is just heartbreaking. We fought so hard for our freedoms and our daughters'.
DENVERPOPS
(9,606 posts)You should have seen it in the 60's and 70's............It was a house of horrors unless you were in a rich family......