Ok. I heard you all loud and clear last night. Here’s my ask…and why you should consider donating to my campaign~> here. The deadline for my filing fee is May 27, in 4 days. I haven’t reached the cost to file yet- $1800. I just need $700 more. Read my platform here ~> website.
I am most passionate about this—Reproductive Health Care is a HUMAN RIGHT. The GOP and SCOTUS have decided they all have an honorary medical degree and demand women must pay up with their life. It’s that simple.
Go to the end— science lesson now —as a former labor and delivery nurse, like an MD, I know what viability means (23-24wks). A fetus born before viability has increased risk for morbidity (serious life disabling conditions) and mortality (death). Fetuses don’t live when they are miscarried (spontaneous abortion) from 6wk-20wks. Why? Lungs aren’t functioning and neither are brains to tell the lungs to breathe.
Florida women and those in other states are facing DEATH, if they are having a spontaneous abortion (bleeding heavily with pain), and they don’t get a D&C (dilatation & curettage- open the cervix and scrape the uterus) to remove the POC (products of conception-at this point most likely the fertilized egg/embryo/fetus is dead), she can bleed out (hemorrhage) and rapidly become infected throughout her entire body (sepsis) and die (did you know the vagina is not sterile?).
That’s it. It’s called reproductive health care. I forgot an important point—my body. No one else’s. Not the government. Not a husband or partner. It’s simple. We are not vessels that carry humans— they are fetuses (medical terminology). If they were humans MDs would call it that. And if we choose to have an elective abortion believe us- we are not being flippant. It’s a devastating decision between me and my MD. We MUST codify RHC into the U.S. Constitution when we regain the majority in both chambers. I’m sick of the morality argument of religious zealots when they hate on HUMANS every day.
Thanks for reading. That’s Squeaky giving me “the look”.