Anti-choice activist changes mind after getting pregnant with defective fetus in Texas

They only care when something happens to them personally.

Stupid fucking cunt bitch.

I'm glad she had the financial means and support to be able to leave the state for her abortion.

There are women in Texas and other states who are not so lucky, and my heart goes out to them.

That being said, we need to be amplifying these horror stories between now and election day to make it crystal clear to voters how vital this election is to all of our rights.

I keep thinking of those fundy wives who have a dozen pregnancies. Tons of dangerous miscarriages there. Any pregnancy can be ectopic. At some point, someone the GOP deems "important" is going to die over their silly policies. Show up at an emergency room in a rural hospitals because they are having problems, and the answer they will hear is that there is no doctor available to save their lives because any doctor with the expertise to handle these sort of emergencies have fled to blue states.

A cautionary tale for Republican voters and so-called "Christians".

"she had to flee her home state" She had to leave her house with dinner still on the table and run across the border with dogs chasing her? Why do journalists insert egregious drama words like "flee" instead of just report the story? (I know the answer to that already.)

She didn't "flee". She planned a trip to NM, made arrangements for the procedure and then traveled there.

Leopards ate my face.

Here's hoping more Rethug women see the light and vote accordingly.

She didn't have the loot though, R2. Her hubs had to beg from their Trump supporter friend or maybe relative and yeah, well, this whole thing is a mess.

Shame it took this to peak her, but glad she survived and then told her tale. It takes guts to walk back erroneously thinking publicly just to help others, and she has done. However wrongheaded her beliefs were.

Her home state is full of shitheads.

Anti-abortion rights retarded cow knocked up with tadpole says what now?

There is nothing in the article that says she was an anti choice activist, just that she personally was strongly pro life. But she changed her thinking years ago after her first miscarriage and was arguably a pro choice activist (if you count Facebook posts as being an activist).

So many people being bitches just because she is white and fat.

I don’t believe these stories.

R11 only believes what comes out from Trump's asshole-shaped mouth.

R10 any woman who is “strongly pro-life” IS anti-choice, whether she is what you deem an activist or not. Apparently posting things on Facebook counts as activism in your corner of the asylum, you gormless queef

I don’t believe him either, R12.

Don't you think that 3 previous miscarriages plus the fucked up Finley, is nature's way of saying, "bitch, it's just not going to work?"

But oh no, she MUST reproduce...

Her doctor told her NOT to have another pregnancy in Texas, yet she knew better.

Critical thinking may be lacking here.

R10 She, like the majority of white women, voted for Trump. She fucked her up her own game.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

R11 from this thread, you're a fucking moron.

This beautifully summarizes every Republican I’ve ever met. Me, me, me, me! Zero empathy and zero ability to think about what their decisions could mean for other people’s lives unless it’s something that happened to or that benefits them.

She voted for the politic as that made the ban law.

What did she think would happen?

same with every celebrity that comes down with a severe illness or disease....Michael J Fox, Im talking to you.....

Too bad, white kids; you know what you signed up for!

How would you like to be called defective? When will professors, doctors, and politicians stop using such a hurtful word?

[quote]I keep thinking of those fundy wives who have a dozen pregnancies. Tons of dangerous miscarriages there. Any pregnancy can be ectopic. At some point, someone the GOP deems "important" is going to die over their silly policies. Show up at an emergency room in a rural hospitals because they are having problems, and the answer they will hear is that there is no doctor available to save their lives because any doctor with the expertise to handle these sort of emergencies have fled to blue states.

[quote]A cautionary tale for Republican voters and so-called "Christians".

Wow, R2, the way you wrote that made me think it would've made a great [italic]Twilight Zone[/italic] episode. How chilling. And tragic.

File this under people I don't care about.

“It made me realize that pregnancy can be dangerous.”

Someone alert Mensa.

[quote]“I’ve never felt more betrayed by a place I was once so proud to be from,” Kailee said through tears.

This is a true Leopards Eating My Face moment. No full-grown, fully functioning adult from Texas should be shocked to find out that their state has no respect for women and reproductive rights.

[quote]It made me realize that pregnancy can be dangerous.

Someone alert Mensa.

[quote]Her doctor told her NOT to have another pregnancy in Texas, yet she knew better.

My half sister was the same. Was told after her third kid to not have any more, had two more, they both nearly killed her, and the last pregnancy did such a number on her that she had to have a hysterectomy because sepsis had set in. Then she sued the doctor for violating her religious rights. It was thrown out of court, but that was in the 1990s. These days, it probably wouldn't be.

I'm sickened by people who are not consistent in their beliefs when faced with difficult situations. If she was going to be pro-life for others, she should have been resolved that she would stand by her beliefs no matter what when it came to her own life. Her cross to bear was the problems with her child. Rather than live her faith, she in effect renounced it to save her own life. There's nothing noble about her behavior.

[quote] I'm sickened by people who are not consistent in their beliefs when faced with difficult situations.

That’s what makes a Repug a Repug. Unless it affects them, it’s not important.

Liberals are conservatives who've been assaulted by reality.

I’m a liberal. Not a progressive.

No one wants her to breed anyway.

I wonder if I can get a small business loan to start my own back ally abortion business?

I'm glad she is speaking out. I'm sure she is getting death threats from the morons in her state (which are many). She could have kept silent and pretended, like many women who have had abortions do.

I will save my scorn for those ladies and their partners --the ones who know through experience that the service is needed and even life saving, at times-- but seek to do what they can to keep it being available to others.

LOCK her up. Make her carry it TO TERM. It's only fair to let her experience what she brought down on everybody else.

She's a fuggo.

[quote] They only care when something happens to them personally.

Sadly, this is the de facto American attitude (except for many left wingers).

Anyone who claims to be Christian (which is most of this country) has a specified directive in their religion to care about others.

But most of them shit on that like they shit on the rest of Jesus’ teachings

No no, Dear, no aborxit means no aborixit, dim white chick. Is she not subject to citizens militia arrest now. Killing a child is very serious in the state of Texass.

"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. "

That kid was doomed anyway.

Unless they are being killed by an AR-15, R42. Then, have at it!

[quote]“It made me realize that pregnancy can be dangerous,”

The stupidity of this bitch! Of course pregnancy is dangerous and always has been. It's technically a parasitic growth sucking nutrients from the host and causing dramatic changes.

Re: dangers of maternity in America, as per the CDC:

"In 2020, 861 women were identified as having died of maternal causes in the United States, compared with 754 in 2019 (3). The maternal mortality rate for 2020 was 23.8 deaths per 100,000 live births compared with a rate of 20.1 in 2019"

Our ranking, compared to the rest of the world: "When compared to the World Health Organization's maternal mortality rate rankings, the US ranks 55th, falling behind RUSSIA which has a maternal mortality rate of 17 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births."

R46, statistics like that remind me that America is a first world country with some third world problems.

Self-imposed third world problems at that

I always think DLers are exaggerating about these names but "Kailee"? And she was going to name her kid "Finley"?

Didn't Texas outlaw abortion tourism?

Go get 'em. Lt. Gov. Patrick!

Fucking frozen tater tot chemicals. She should have read the warning label.

R7, “pique”, not “peak”

Just an FYI. No shade. 😊

This story keeps getting shared by people who don't follow the timeline. She became pro-choice in her early twenties, following her first miscarriage, according to the article. Years later, when the bans went into effect she lobbied her friends and family to register their protest:

[quote]Last September, when a restrictive anti-abortion law took effect in Texas, Kailee pleaded on Facebook for people to contact their elected representatives to protect abortion rights.

After the new Texas law went into effect, she had another miscarriage. I think it's fitting that her husband sought the abortion and travel money from a Trumpster relative:

[quote]The DeSpains didn't have enough money -- Kailee said she was docked pay at work because she'd had too many sick days -- so Cade asked a relative he describes as "the epitome of the Trump fanboy" to give them the $3,500. The relative relented when Cade said that without the abortion, he could end up a widower at age 30.

Blue states should deny abortions to those who vote republican.

Red state anti-choice people won't learn or have empathy for reproductive choice unless and until it directly impacts them.

Until a daughter, wife, or sister is forced to carry a pregnancy to term and suffers the consequences of lack of abortion availability, they won't care what happens.

While they say "life of the mother" in their exceptions, the reality is that that is a vague and nebulous area in which doctors will err on the side of caution, so will wait until the eleventh hour to ensure that there is no room for debating the necessity, thereby putting the mother's life in danger, not to mention the emotional and physical trauma.

While I wouldn't wish it on anyone, we should all accept that the underlying mindset of the far right wing actually precludes a wider sense of empathy for situations with which they have no direct or immediate experience. It is, in fact, WHY these people are so far right wing in their viewpoints.

[quote]The DeSpains didn't have enough money -- Kailee said she was docked pay at work because she'd had too many sick days -- so Cade asked a relative he describes as "the epitome of the Trump fanboy" to give them the $3,500. The relative relented when Cade said that without the abortion, he could end up a widower at age 30.

Lock up the whole shooting match of them, Holy Gov. Abbott. I await my $30,000 bounty check; do I get extra if I report the ATM machine?

R23 here, with another observation:

[quote]At some point, someone the GOP deems "important" is going to die over their silly policies. Show up at an emergency room in a rural hospitals because they are having problems, and the answer they will hear is that there is no doctor available to save their lives because any doctor with the expertise to handle these sort of emergencies have fled to blue states.

Remember Hurricane Katrina and how it demolished the Mississippi Gulf Coast? And how the GOP after decades of doing fuck-all about coastal erosion or climate change, along with a so-incompetent-he's-dangerous POTUS W. Bush, Condi shoe shopping, and the utterly ridiculous "Heckuva job, Brownie" FEMA secretary?

Then Senator Trent Lott lost his ENORMOUS home in Mississippi (while thousands of people were dying and losing their homes/jobs/loved ones) and was crying about his second home being destroyed, and that we MUST do something...then crickets.

This is actually a powerful story that could sway some of these pro-lifers (not most, granted). Both were raised in an ultra conservative household where they were taught to be pro-life. She had a miscarriage before this abortion and that is what actually made her change her mind about abortion. Then she needed an abortion for another pregnancy. TX doctor told her that unless they can prove that her life is in imminent danger., they cannot perform an abortion. Insurance won't cover it even though this is a mother's health related abortion. They have to borrow money from a Trumper relative who was only convinced to lend the money because he or she heard that the girl might die if she carries to term. This is the type of real life shit that changes people's minds.

I need a bigger violin.

[quote]"It made me realize that pregnancy can be dangerous," she said.

For the sake of the continuation of the human race, we should all be grateful that women do make that fateful choice to have sex without birth control, even though they know that it could lead to a lot of possible negative outcomes, including death. Hopefully, someday science will be able to determine ahead of time who should not get pregnant because of the risks and prevent it. Science needs to focus on prevention so that we can get away from debating about doing something after the fact with problem fetuses.

She looks like the Dollar Tree version of Meghan McCain.

She's a murderer! Lock her up!

She’s going to hell.

[quote]They have to borrow money from a Trumper relative who was only convinced to lend the money because he or she heard that the girl might die...

Wait. This couple is having another child, but can't put $3500 on a credit card? I mean, I understand not having the cash lying around, but they don't have the wherewithal to even charge it? Stop having children!

The force is strong with them. smart not is this force and now they are Petitioning the gods.

Fuck her feelings.

I agree with R1.

Same, R67.

I loathe people like her even more than those who stay ignorant, because all she has proven is she's an absolutely selfish asshole who wanted to just continue to control other people and tell them what they can do with their own bodies, but suddenly, it happens to her and she wants no one telling her what to do. Fuck her. Keep that defective thing in her. Make her carry it to term.

Even now, I doubt she's capable of empathy. It's about HER, even now.

[quote]"I was raised in central Texas by extremely Republican parents and grandparents," Cade, 31, said. "One hundred percent pro-life."

No, you were 100% controlling others' lives.

Who wants to bet she still votes straight Republican this November?

R67/r68 The damage is done. Neither she nor anyone here can go back in time and erase one's mistakes. The best this woman can do, in her present situation, is tell her story to whoever will listen, and this she's already doing.