According to CNN, “All Heather and Nick Maberry wanted to do was hold their dead baby, but strict Kentucky abortion laws meant they couldn’t. They were ‘furious’ that the laws meant they never got to kiss or cuddle their daughter, Willow Rose, or tell her goodbye, Heather said. … The family’s ordeal started in April, when Heather was nearly five months pregnant and they found out their daughter was missing a major part of the brain, a condition called anencephaly. They say their doctors told them she would either be stillborn or die very quickly after birth. The Maberrys wanted to terminate the pregnancy, but a near-complete abortion ban in their state doesn’t have exceptions for birth defects – even severe ones like anencephaly. The Maberrys went out of state to end the pregnancy, but their insurance, Kentucky Medicaid, wouldn’t pay for it.”
Oh, where to begin?!?! First, I see the MSM still (no pun intended) feels it necessary to run these stories that pull at readers’ heartstrings. Needless to say, I am unpersuaded. Second, these Medicaid recipients (read: poor White trash) from Kentucky (read: poor White trash RepubliKKKlans) are upset that abortion laws in their state made a non-viable pregnancy difficult to receive proper healthcare. To which I say: Good! Cry me a f***ing river. This is, no doubt, what they voted for, and if they failed to vote, then this is what their political indifference wrought. Of course, these red-state residents had to travel to a blue-state city (Chicago) to get the necessary medical abortion — for free, I might add. I am absolutely against this for reasons I’ve articulated in many other posts, but in short, I think people should live according to how they voted (or failed to vote, in which their indifference helped create their circumstances). Am I certain that this couple didn’t vote for Democrats? No, but I’m pretty sure they voted for RepubliKKKlans — always and often. One of the failings of all these types of stories is that reporters never seem to ask for whom these people voted. Writers should make it a point to understand the political views of their subjects and put it at the beginning of the article so I know just how little I should care about these people. Because as much as this is a “human interest” story, it is also a story that was directly impacted by politics, so there is no such thing as just the “humanity” side in the retelling of events, for these circumstances would have been much different if abortion was still a constitutionally protected right. But whatever!
Last, and probably the most important point, modern-day American society has become a victim of its own medical success. People have come to expect every pregnancy to be a success, and consequently, parents-to-be put an excessive amount of emotion into the viability of their unborn baby. Idiots should be reminded — in a more dispassionate way — that conception and fetal development is a biological process, and like everything in biology, things go wrong — often! There is no such thing as a flawless biological process or biological certainty. And people should not be mourning a natural process that goes wrong anymore or less than a biological process that goes right. It’s f***ing nature, f***tards! Sometimes it works, and sometimes it does not. How or why people get attached to a thing that is not fully alive (i.e., not viable) is beyond me, but then again, people are morons, so, in a way, I expected nothing less. Welcome to stupid America!