Kageshini1
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yeah this is where this was always gonna fuckin go, unfortunately
she’s 35 years old, by the way
[ID: headline reading: “Pregnant Mother in Tennessee Denied Care for Being Unmarried. The 2025 Medical Ethics Defense Act allows physicians to deny care to patients whose lifestyles they disagree with.” End ID]
“Last Thursday, at a town hall in Jonesborough, Tennessee, a 35-year-old woman shared her story: she was denied prenatal care by her physician because they objected to the fact that she wasn’t married, nor did she plan to be. She’d been with her partner for 15 years and they have a 13-year-old child.
While going through her medical history, the physician told her that because she was unwed, they didn’t feel comfortable treating her, because it went against their values and she should seek care elsewhere. At the time of the appointment, the woman believed she was about four weeks into her pregnancy.
Now, she’s traveling out of state to Virginia to receive prenatal care.
This is the first reported case of a woman being denied prenatal care for being unmarried in the state of Tennessee.
On April 24th, Tennessee’s 2025 Medical Ethics Defense Act went into effect. It gives physicians, hospital systems and insurers, among others, the legal right to deny healthcare to patients based on religious, moral or ethical beliefs. There are no protections for people in rural areas with limited options. There’s no requirement to refer patients elsewhere. And there’s no legal recourse. The woman at the town hall explained that her representatives are not responsive to her questions, even as she repeatedly calls Sen. Marsha Blackburn. When she reached staff at Sen. Bill Hagerty’s office, they told her, “he’s not obligated to listen to his constituents.””
read that last line again
(via yzmas-fucking-eyelashes)
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feeling like the health inspector
(via yzmas-fucking-eyelashes)
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It seems the new slop meta is “AI generated porch cam videos”
Yeah I was fooled too but here’s a vid breaking it down.
Genuinely, don’t trust any videos you see now from ringcameras, surveillance cameras, or any other times where you expect the footage to be grainy and distorted due to the ‘source’.
That’s where they now can most easily get away with these now.
And yes, that means things are about the get really fucking scary, and not in a fun Halloween way.
Edit to add: Now more than ever it’s really fucking important that you start to get in the habit of verifying the source of what you share.
(via chancecraz)
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this still stands as one of the funniest things i’ve ever drawn and i can’t seem to get a clearer shot no matter how much i try
(via iizthepotatolord)
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