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Enough is enough! It’s as if we are living in a surreal parallel universe where the evil, self-serving minority have claimed the right to puppeteer the rest of us. Do these zealots have any idea how many women have miscarriages every day who need medical assistance???? Do they have any idea how many women may die as a result of their ignorance, misogyny and overreach. If the courts don’t shut this down, all women and men who love women, must shut it down through protests, civil action and voting. Enough is enough!

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YES! YES! YES! Miscarriages happen on their own & women need proper health care! Enough IS Enough!!

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I had a miscarriage but needed a doctor's care as it was not complete. It was heartbreaking enough, but now are women just supposed to wait to become septic before they can get the care they need?

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So sorry you went through this

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Nope. The way it’s being set up now by the GOP, they are just supposed to die! That’s their plan. Bunch of ignorant immature idiots!

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Same for me Colleen. I am beyond horrified by what is happening to women's healthcare.

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prayers!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Per my recollection, spontaneous miscarriages are still not discussed publicly. The statistics I recall are that the lifetime risk of miscarriages among all persons attempting to bear a child is around 1/3; that is, a third of women who have tried to bear a child have sustained one spontaneous miscarriage. This is rarely mentioned.

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We should ask Margaret Atwood to chime in from her Substack on the characters in the Handmaid’s Tale. The simmering rage of the Steriles, who despise other women, might resemble a current maladaptive sentiment of a rare few who have been frustrated in their wish for fecundity? This topic of miscarriage is clearly rich with human importance and dark fears, for all of us.

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My mother, in the early 1940s, had two spontaneous miscarriages (abortions) before she even knew she was pregnant. Both required Dilation and Curetage to remove remnant tissues from her uterus. She then had to have surgery to resolve a tilted uterus, enabling her to carry her pregnancy with my sister to full term. Today, in some states, she could be prosecuted for the spontaneous miscarriages and would likely be barred in those states from having a D&C.

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