South Houston 40, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)

Doctor, Doctor, what’s the bad news
You’ve got a fetus that done killed you
Houston, we have a major problem
Because the GOP wants to control them

Josseli was in mid miscarriage
Trump’s Supreme Court the ultimate outrage
Doctor, doctor, what can you do
40 hours later Josseli was through

We have to wait till you’re on death’s door
And hope we can save you all before
Infection kills you, or blood loss more
Back allies and coat hangers, did that before

American Taliban with Bible in hand
They want to ban abortion throughout the land
To all the daughters sisters and mothers
To all the dads, uncles and brothers

Don’t let them put that chain on you
You have the power to beat them too
Body autonomy is your right
Never ever give up we will fight

Josseli Barnica, SAY HER NAME
Her family didn’t want her to have this fame
Don’t let her death be in vein
We will restore Roe once again.
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Josseli Barnica is yet another unfortunate victim of barbaric Republican law made by authoritarian bastards who want to control females bodies like they are chattel and do so without any fucking clue how medical emergencies happen suddenly in a pregnancy and you cannot wait until it gets life threatening. No different than someone noticing a strange blotch on your skin and you go to the dermatologist and they are not sure, but remove it anyway and you later find out it was cancer. Nobody would wait, after finding out they had that blotch for it to get to stage 4 cancer.

This is what these bullshit laws do. They take the power out of the doctor’s hands, the person who spent almost a decade in college and medical school and for what? Male patriarchy.

“States rights” is the solution? Just drive to another state? Um no, a miscarriage isn’t something you wait on. If you don’t abort the fetus before it dies, it can cause either severe blood/fluid loss and or infection. Josseli was told that they had to wait until the fetus’s heartbeat stopped, despite the fact that the miscarriage was already in progress and would have died anyway. 40 hours later and it was too late. She only got treatment 40 hours later but by then the infection killed her 3 days later.

We must not let him back in office! We must fix the Supreme Court.

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/10/30/texas-abortion-ban-josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage/

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