Abigail Harrington

@EruditeMidnight @opkimistic @JessicaValenti The video doesn't clearly explain it, but basically North Carolina's law makes that illegal as well, since the embryos with genetic issues are destroyed. But these are embryos in a lab- there's no pregnancy that's ended, i.e. no abortion.

@EruditeMidnight @opkimistic @JessicaValenti No she isn't. What she needs is pre implantation genetic diagnosis. That means her embryos have to be made in a lab and then tested to see if they have the damaged genes, then only healthy embryos are implanted. She's not saying she needs abortions.

A North Carolina woman with a genetic disorder that creates serious fetal anomalies wrote to state Sen. Danny Britt about how the state's ban prevents her from expanding her family. He wrote back: "I suggest you move to China immediately and see how that works out for you."

@_NicoTheLegend_ @taskmaster_K @jk_rowling Sounds like she may have been born with a syndrome which caused her to appear female, though her chromosomes would generally be those of a male. Likely neither she nor her family would have been aware of this as she grew. So she's not trans, since she never thought she was male.

@taskmaster_K @jk_rowling I've been reading about the situation all day. Can someone help me understand better? From what I read the person isn't transgender or transitioning but has an XY chromosome correct?

Could any picture sum up our new men’s rights movement better? The smirk of a male who’s knows he’s protected by a misogynist sporting establishment enjoying the distress of a woman he’s just punched in the head, and whose life’s ambition he’s just shattered. #Paris2024

@bus40074774 @GenoVeno73 Here's the thing- I HAVE been shot at, and I DID try to grab my shoes. In my early 20s I was at a house party where there was a drive by, and one of my first thoughts WAS to grab my shoes (heels that I'd taken off because they were hurting my feet). So that makes sense to me 🫤

@GenoVeno73 Bro asked for his shoes before he could be evacuated. If I'm being shot at I'm not worried about footwear. Or any wear. Time to go.

Look at these pictures, tell me what you see.... If this were truly an assassination attempt, do you think the Secret Service would allow an open, clear target like this? C'mon, something is rotten in the state of Denmark. You can try using that, "they had already neutralized the shooter" excuse, but how did they know there was only one shooter? It doesn't matter if the shooter was neutralized, you do not leave any portion of a former president of the United States' body as a wide open target in the off chance there's more than one shooter. IT JUST DOESN'T HAPPEN!!

@life0fabdi @NPR $8 billion in revenue, across a 23 hospital system. That's an entirely different story. As someone who runs a small business I know very well that revenue is NOT profit. I wish!

@NPR ... can you believe it. lol 8 billion in profit for a non-profit hospital that charges $850 by just showing up at the ER. Nationalize all hospital care systems.

A toddler burned his hand on the stove. So his parents took him to the ER. But after a long wait for a doctor who never showed up, they went home and the burn healed on its own. Then the hospital sent them a bill for $1,012. n.pr/33MhBqa

holy fuck this thread

@callyhill55 @ambermruffin That it shouldn't be that way, but a jury verdict in the United States most certainly does not require that all 12 people agree.

@ambermruffin I’ve always accepted jury verdicts no matter how I feel about the case. If 12 people can agree, I trust their collective judgement. If there was judicial misconduct then there are ways to address that.

@callyhill55 @ambermruffin You do understand that 12 people DON'T have to agree for jury verdicts, right? In most states, all 12 do need to agree to convict a person, but all 12 not need to agree to acquit a person. In fact it could be 11 to 1 in favor of conviction. Now I'm not saying.......

@lydiainpeckham @JimMFelton That's Baratunde Thurston. He's an author and activist, and quite funny 😊

@elonjames I did call the police. They came. Refused to do anything. Said I couldn't prove I didn't want it. Four years later, I still hurt