On Saturday morning the Miami Herald called out Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) for a story he told during Wednesday's Republican Party debate about an abortion where he got the facts entirely wrong in order to make his anti-choice point.At issue was a tale about a woman he called "Penny" who survived an a...
  • warbond@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m confused, are they sure Desantis and the paper are talking about the same people? It reads almost like satire with the amount of assumptions being made. Did I miss the direct correlation somewhere?

    • MuhammadJesusGaySex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      What I took from the article is, the story that Desantis told is a well known anti-abortion story. I gather that because they say it’s been around since before Rowe vs Wade. He got the name right, but changed the facts of the story to fit a more up to date narrative.

      As someone that has had a partner that had to make that tough decision. I can tell you that his story is already fabricated just from the details gleaned from this article.

      First, almost all abortions involve taking 2 pills. That’s it. No surgery. No vacuum. It’s 2 pills. You take one at the office, and one at home. It’s done.

      Second, they DO NOT let anyone go back with the pregnant woman. The reason for this is they want to make ABSOLUTELY SURE that she is not being forced to do this by someone else. Grandma never would have been anywhere near an aborted fetus.

      • warbond@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Had to do some more digging, but I couldn’t understand why the article insisted that the paper debunked the story about Penny. The detail I was missing is that it was actually her nickname, and not some case of mistaken identity. Thanks for helping to clear that up.

    • Bipta@kbin.social
      61·
      1 year ago

      The estimated number of abortion survivors, according to a pro-life source I saw the other day while investigating this, is around 86,000, worldwide iirc.

      I doubt there are that many Penny’s in Florida who could be counted as such, so I’m interested in what assumptions you feel are being unfairly made.

      And to note, abortion survivors are further evidence of the need for access to safe and effective abortions.