People walking out of the Trump rally again tonight. pic.twitter.com/S5NP6GE6XL

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 18, 2024

Georgia Mom, 28, Dies of ‘Preventable’ Infection After Being Denied Life-Saving Procedure Due to State’s Abortion Laws

Amber Nicole Thurman was denied treatment for 20 hours — and now a state investigation has deemed her death “preventable”

A Georgia woman died after the state’s strict anti-abortion laws caused a 20-hour delay in her treatment.

In August 2022, Amber Nicole Thurman, 28, drove to a North Carolina clinic to have an abortion, Mother Jones reported. She could not get one in her home state of Georgia because she was six weeks pregnant — and Georgia had enacted a ban forbidding abortion after six weeks’ gestation following the 2022 overturn of Roe v. Wade.

The clinic gave her the pregnancy-ending pills mifepristone and misoprostol, which she took back at home. A few days, later, Thurman had a rare complication where she didn’t expel all the fetal tissue, according to ProPublica, which was the first to report on the case.

When tissue remains in the uterus, it can cause “infection, which can damage your reproductive organs or even cause dangerous complications like sepsis when left untreated,” the Cleveland Clinic says.

As the Mayo Clinic explains, D&C is “a procedure to remove tissue from inside your uterus. Health care professionals perform dilation and curettage to diagnose and treat certain uterine conditions — such as heavy bleeding — or to clear the uterine lining after a miscarriage or abortion.”

However, ProPublica reports that an official state committee reported that doctors waited for 20 hours to operate while they monitored Thurman’s infection — during which time her blood pressure dropped and her organs failed. 

Thurman died in August 2022, but a state investigation found that her death was “preventable” — and ProPublica said that Thurman’s is the first known “preventable” case linked to abortion.

According to Georgia law, “no abortion shall be performed if the unborn child has a detectable human heartbeat except (a) in the event of a medical emergency or medically futile pregnancy.”

In the state, “medical emergency” is defined as “a condition in which an abortion is necessary in order to prevent the death of the pregnant woman or the substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function of the pregnant woman … No such greater risk shall be deemed to exist if … the pregnant woman will purposefully engage in conduct which she intends to result in her death or in substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function.”

Remember when an “illegal alien” murdered a young woman in Georgia and every Republican piece of shit in the country was all about “Say her name?”  Okay, how about we SAY HER NAME:  AMBER NICOLE THURMAN!!!

This is the emotionally stunted piece of shit who never learned to control his impulses.  This is the emotionally stunted piece of shit the Republicans want to put back in the White House.  And now this emotionally stunted piece of shit  is having the expected reaction to a woman who expressed a preference for someone who isn’t he.

Years before Donald Trump seized upon the Big Lie that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen, he insistently promoted another supersized falsehood — namely that charges of Russian interference in the 2016 election were “a hoax.” His minions in the media, from Fox News down to the lowliest web trolls, have incessantly parroted that lie despite the volumes of evidence uncovered by the Senate Intelligence Committee’s bipartisan investigation and the special counsel probe by Robert Mueller.

But now a fresh indictment released by the Justice Department on Sept. 4 shows that the Kremlin conspiracy to rig U.S. elections in favor of the Republican Party is not a liberal myth but a live threat — and that several of the most prominent MAGA media voices denouncing the “hoax” were themselves on the Russian payroll, taking big money.

The indictment describes in detail, with supporting documents translated from Russian, how Kremlin consultants and employees of RT, the state media outlet, directed at least $10 million in funding to a shadowy Tennessee firm known as Tenet Media.

In short, federal investigators caught “Russia, Russia, Russia” — as a mocking Trump likes to say — interfering yet again to prop up his campaign. And just as word of the indictment broke, [he] reiterated his promise to sell out Ukraine for a “peace” plan as soon as he wins election, even before he enters the White House. What Russia spent on Tenet would be pocket change compared with that return on investment.

“Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.”

(9 August, 2016)

[When asked about the high cost of childcare.]

“Well, I would do that, and we’re sitting down—you know, I was, somebody, we had Senator Marco Rubio, and my daughter Ivanka was so impactful on that issue. It’s a very important issue. But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about, that—because look, child care is childcare, it’s—couldn’t, you know, it’s something, you have to have it, in this country you have to have it.

But when you talk about those numbers compared to the kind of numbers that I’m talking about by taxing foreign nations at levels that they’re not used to—but they’ll get used to it very quickly—and it’s not gonna stop them from doing business with us, but they’ll have a very substantial tax when they send product into our country. Those numbers are so much bigger than any numbers that we’re talking about, including childcare, that it’s going to take care.

We’re gonna have—I look forward to having no deficits within a fairly short period of time, coupled with the reductions that I told you about on waste and fraud and all of the other things that are going on in our country, because I have to stay with childcare. I want to stay with childcare, but those numbers are small relative to the kind of economic numbers that I’m talking about, including growth, but growth also headed up by what the plan is that I just—that I just told you about.

We’re gonna be taking in trillions of dollars, and as much as childcare is talked about as being expensive, it’s relatively speaking not very expensive compared to the kind of numbers we’ll be taking in. We’re gonna make this into an incredible country that can afford to take care of its people, and then we’ll worry about the rest of the world.

Let’s help other people, but we’re going to take care of our country first. This is about America first. It’s about ‘Make America Great Again.’

We have to do it because right now we’re a failing nation, so we’ll take care of it. Thank you. Very good question. Thank you.”

4 September 2024

“The fake news will say, ‘Oh, he goes from subject to subject.’ No, you have to be very smart to do that. You got to be very smart. You know what it is? It’s called spot-checking. You’re thinking about something when you’re talking about something else, and then you get back to the original. And they go, ‘Holy shit. Did you see what he did?’ It’s called intelligence.”