Like Blades to Grass

Bucky: I think I killed him

UHHH I guess I forgot to post these here… but I was super excited and honored to draw the Convention exclusive variant covers for Steven Universe comics #25-26!  I’ll also be drawing variant covers for 27-28 so look out for that.

The governor has signed it into law. It’s exactly as terrible and fascist as described above. However, women in Georgia can still get abortions, because the law will be held up in court due to vigorous legal challenges for a long time, and it’s likely to go all the way up to the Supreme Court. So the best thing you can do to stop it at this point is anything to make sure Trump doesn’t stack the court ever farther to the right than it already is.

This does not reflect the will of the people in Georgia. The current governor (Kemp) only won election last year and defeated Stacey Abrams through rampant cheating, gerrymandering and suppression of the African-American vote. This bill is HUGELY UNPOPULAR among the majority of Georgians and several recent polls have born that out. 

General boycotts or “punishing” Georgia won’t do anything to prevent this. Any effective boycott should be targeted at the same rich white Republicans who supported this bill and rammed it through over the objections of everyone. Go after Kemp, go after the bill supporters, but any boycott that hurts regular Georgians won’t really touch them at all.

A better use of resources would be supporting organizations on the ground in Georgia who have been fighting on a dual front: reproductive justice and voter rights. Building up abortion funds for vulnerable women in case the law goes into effect would also be a good use of resources.

Cable = Internet

Online Shopping = Can be used for essential purchases

Ride Shares = Private and Public Transport unavailable to certain people

Personal Grooming = Is someone supposed to get a job w/out deoderant and basic personal grooming? How much of feminine hygeine is shoved under this label?

The bill also requires ectopic pregnancies to be re-implanted in the uterus—a medical procedure that doesn’t exist.

This bill effectively bans all forms of birth control except condoms, other barrier methods, and the rhythm method/pull out method. No more pills, IUDs, emergency contraceptives, nothing. No tubal ligations, so women won’t even be able to sterilize themselves anymore in order to prevent unwanted pregnancies. 

It also forces women to undergo an invasive, unnecessary procedure in order to symbolically make pro-lifers….feel better? I guess. Removing an ectopic pregnancy and then placing it in the uterus so she can then expel it is completely illogical. Dislodgment of this NONVIABLE pregnancy destroys the placental connections that have formed, effectively removing the blood supply from the embryo entirely. So even if you wanted to believe it was remotely possible for a removed ectopic pregnancy to be reimplanted into the uterus (which it isn’t), you’re effectively going to be implanting an embryo that is guaranteed to have an anoxic brain injury, at the very least, and this will most likely be occurring at the most critical time in neuro development (the first trimester) for that embryo so what exactly are we expecting to be the outcome should this pro-life fantasy even be possible? Severely brain damaged, congenitally malformed, most likely nonviable babies that the mom then has to watch die after giving birth to. Nice.

You’d literally be cutting someone open to remove dying tissue and then invasively insert that dead tissue somewhere else increasing the chance of infection and other complications.

You can treat ectopic pregnancies that have not ruptured MEDICALLY, with MEDICINE. Avoiding invasive surgery is the standard of care across this entire country. Requiring that doctors perform an invasive and unnecessary procedure instead of giving one to two pills to perform another invasive procedure that has no realistic purpose other than to make men feel better is completely unethical and puts doctors in an impossible position? Sacrifice patient safety and care or lose the license you spent at least 11 years working for, go to jail, and have no way to pay back your 6 figure loan debt?

And, finally, how would doctors reimplant this fetus (assuming it’s possible, which it isn’t)? Would they cut open the uterus and put it in there so she can miscarry “naturally”? Doing so would put her at an increased risk of placenta accreta/percreta, uterine rupture with future pregnancies, and pretty much require any future deliveries to take place via c-section which is major abdominal surgery and carries all of the risks that a surgery like that entails. Cutting the uterus open in the first trimester would require a “classical” c-section cut which puts a woman at all of the risks I stated above.

Would they insert it through the cervix? Doing so would require dilation of the cervix with laminaria and put her at risk of ectopic pregnancy on the cervix in the future.

Look. Even if I supported this law, these are legitimate questions and they should be addressed before legislation like this even makes it to the floor. Physicians and other providers MUST be consulted when crafting legislation that affects medical care. This law is telling doctors it is now illegal for them to offer the gold standard for care for treating ectopic pregnancies or providing the most reliable options for birth control available and is REQUIRING them to endanger patients so a bunch of old white guys who hate women and don’t understand biology can feel more powerful by reducing women back to brood mares.