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She was a "pro-life" Republican.
When she needed an abortion in her home state of Texas because of medical dangers, she could not get one. She had to flee to New Mexico.
Now she supports abortion rights.
cnn.com
She was a 'quintessential pro-life Texan' until she needed to flee her home to get an abortion
Kailee DeSpain says her doctor told her that before Texas' six-week abortion ban went into effect, she would have advised abortion as "the safest course for you [and] the most humane course of action...
10:32 AM · Sep 9, 2022
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/09/health/abortion-restrictions-texas/index.html
In November, Kailee and Cade were overjoyed to learn she was pregnant. Full of hope, they posted ultrasound pictures and a gender reveal video of a cannon shooting out blue confetti. They named their baby boy Finley.
Then about three months later, they learned Finley had heart, lung, brain, kidney, and genetic defects and would either be stillborn or die within minutes of birth. Carrying him to term put Kailee at high risk for severe pregnancy complications, including blood clots, preeclampsia and cancer.
Even so, they could not get an abortion in Texas and fled to New Mexico.
"I've never felt more betrayed by a place I was once so proud to be from," Kailee said through tears.
"How could you be so cruel as to pass a law that you know will hurt women and that you know will cause babies to be born in pain?" she added. "How is that humane? How is that saving anybody?"
*snip*
No doubt this same woman was pleased to see Republican policies hiring people she'd been raised to hate. I'm doing my best to feel sympathy for this woman... It's a work in progress.
gay texan
(2,448 posts)All well and good until it effects them personally .
NRS syndrome, Nancy Reagan Syndrome
Ray Bruns
(4,097 posts)CanonRay
(14,101 posts)Been saying this for years.
TNNurse
(6,926 posts)I worked with many of them.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,345 posts)gay texan
(2,448 posts)Pro-life and in the state of Texas, cmon....
MagickMuffin
(15,942 posts)This is who they are cruel and inhumane.
Now get ready to VOTE THEM OUT, while we still have that right!
NQAS
(10,749 posts)Shell still vote R. Guaranteed.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,345 posts)MagickMuffin
(15,942 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,345 posts)retweeting it and appearing to add a detail that appears nowhere in the article itself?
StarryNite
(9,445 posts)It's a whole different ballgame when it affects them directly. Until then they don't give a shit about anybody else.
Sky Jewels
(7,096 posts)unlike those other people.
phylny
(8,380 posts)but I got nothin.
XanaDUer2
(10,667 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,345 posts)IMO the tweet and headline really misrepresent her change of mind.
"It made me realize that pregnancy can be dangerous," she said. "It made me think of my little sisters, and I wanted them to be able to have a choice if they ever had to go through something like that."
Last September, when a restrictive anti-abortion law took effect in Texas, Kailee pled on Facebook for people to contact their elected representatives to protect abortion rights.
Even people who support abortion rights can be under the impression that there's a Shirley Exception.
Nevilledog
(51,104 posts)intrepidity
(7,296 posts)it sounds fun
Nevilledog
(51,104 posts)betsuni
(25,519 posts)Ray Bruns
(4,097 posts)3catwoman3
(23,987 posts)If she were a hen, she could lay eggs in the bed.
Ray Bruns
(4,097 posts)Nittersing
(6,361 posts)catbyte
(34,386 posts)be their dominant trait. They're against it until it happens to them.
Biophilic
(3,654 posts)But its a stretch.
Tetrachloride
(7,843 posts)she likes New Mexico.
but our question is Texas.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,345 posts)friends and family to support abortion rights. She was pro-life when she was raised and got married, then started thinking about the issue more after her first miscarriage.
Nevilledog
(51,104 posts)She only cared about it when it affected her.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,345 posts)Nevilledog
(51,104 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)But when others choose YOUR fate, you go cry to the newspapers.
No sympathy. Politics isn't about ME. It's about US.
The Unmitigated Gall
(3,812 posts)It hasnt happened to me, so I really dont care.
Democrat:
That shouldnt happen to anyone, and thats why I care.
ZonkerHarris
(24,226 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,420 posts)Response to Nevilledog (Original post)
Joinfortmill This message was self-deleted by its author.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Life and its attendant health care are a lot messier than some folks realize. I hope Kailee talks to her former fellow travelers and shares her story to illustrate that the oversimplified neat-and-tidy anti-abortion stance doesn't comport with reality. A person's health care choices should be made by that person in consultation with a qualified medical professional, not by some ignorant legislator who doesn't understand basic biology and anatomy. Perhaps she can speak to them in a language they understand.
Demobrat
(8,977 posts)Shes one of the lucky ones.
txwhitedove
(3,928 posts)that person's eyes were opened a bit by this situation too.
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)DFW
(54,379 posts)If she is willing to actively go around Texas telling her fellow Republicans why she is now pro-choice, and why anti-choice is so cruel, and so WRONG, then I say: that is her salvation. If she is just singing "Poor Poor Pitiful Me," then I am not interested in her tears. Only if she not only sees her wrong and is willing to do something about it, so that other women don't suffer as she has, has she really learned anything.
fierywoman
(7,683 posts)Whatthe_Firetruck
(557 posts).... Having admitted to the procedure, the forced birthers could sue her for the sweet, sweet $10k bounty.
txwhitedove
(3,928 posts)And the link is to a CNN article, that's National news.
DU should have it in their hearts to understand when the veil is lifted and someone becomes more educated and understanding.
DFW
(54,379 posts)After what happened to her, shes educated enough, no question. The important part is understanding that what happened to her under current state law can happen to ANY WOMAN IN TEXAS. If shes willing to stay active in opposing that, Ill be the first to cheer and send contributions.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,345 posts)txwhitedove
(3,928 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,346 posts)Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!
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DLCWIdem
(1,580 posts)I am constantly hearing that tune in my head now. Can't get rid if it.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,346 posts)3Hotdogs
(12,378 posts)Get it? Pretty good, eh? Not one tot....
and I thought it up all by myself.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,425 posts)onecaliberal
(32,861 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)for the raped ten year girl in Ohio.
Doubt it. If she thought about it at all, probably "it was her fault".
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)Grins
(7,217 posts)So the question now is: Is she still a Republican?
After all that if she still is, and if her Republican husband who had to go begging to his also-Republican family for financial help still is - I dont give a damn about them.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,345 posts)Grins
(7,217 posts)He is the one who had to ask his MAGA family for financial help which the reluctantly did, thus making them accomplices, according to Texas law, murder.
Im willing to go to Vegas and put it all down that she, a lifelong pro-lifer (so she claimed), is a Republican - just like her husband.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,345 posts)that he considered himself a Republican.
They didn't say they were Republicans in the ad they did for Beto, so who knows.
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)she was part of the reason why we are where we are at....as far as I am concerned, she can crawl in a hole and stay there
Nululu
(841 posts)Why are these people so eager to cast judgement on others? Their judgements are ignorant and bigoted. So women will die because of cruelty wrapped in religion.
Hassler
(3,377 posts)Go right back to the picket line harassing women.
dchill
(38,492 posts)dchill
(38,492 posts)...are still vehemently anti-abortion. Only THEIR abortion should be allowed.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)fuck them
Zambero
(8,964 posts)The "pro-life" trait of favoring the wholesale abolition of individual reproductive rights takes on an interesting twist whenever one of them realizes that they are in desperate need of an abortion. Absent their own predicament, most if not all of them could care less about another individual's plight occurring under the same circumstances.
NQAS
(10,749 posts)Theyre republicans. Its not a problem until its a problem for them. Fucking hypocrites.
Mr. Evil
(2,844 posts)The Death Party uses religion to pass these laws. Yet, they aren't religious even in the most loosely form of the term. It's simply political expediency for them. Laws have to be made based on reality only, not fantasy or mythology.
The only way to truly learn a lesson is the hard way. These draconian laws are only going to put thousands and thousands of women in harms way year after year if they are allowed to remain in effect. How can we progress as human beings and allow this travesty against human beings be allowed?
Why do we allow whatever warped beliefs someone has to be instituted upon the masses? Why is a doctor's knowledge superseded by a politician's beliefs or political desires? It should not be.
Unfortunately, it won't change until doctors go on strike. Until doctors ultimately decide that humanity's reality is paramount to religious and political expediency.
niyad
(113,304 posts)Bucky
(54,013 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,345 posts)Roisin Ni Fiachra
(2,574 posts)What did she expect the MAGAT King and his misogynist minions to do for her, and to do to her, when she voted to elect them?
I feel really bad for her. Hopefully she has learned her lesson and will not continue to vote against her own interests by voting for woman hating fascists.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,345 posts)Hotler
(11,421 posts)Fuck them and their feelings.
Mariana
(14,857 posts)"Finley (the fetus) and I were simply collateral damage in a much bigger picture." she says.
No, Kailee, you were not "collateral damage". You were the intended target of this law. The law was written to prevent you, Kaylee, from getting an abortion in Texas. It worked exactly the way it was meant to work.
yardwork
(61,608 posts)I feel relief that another Republican has seen the light. The people she voted into office betrayed her. The pain she's feeling is a necessary symptom. She's waking up.