Three plaintiffs testified about the trauma they experienced carrying nonviable pregnancies.

  • SpaceBar
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    Horrible laws written mostly by men against women. Men who will never and have never been affected by what they are prohibiting.

    It’s so gross and infuriating.

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      Even if it did affect them through someone they knew, the people writing the laws can afford to circumvent them. Make no mistake, these people do get abortions banned or not.

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      This is NOT a men vs. women issue. It’s a conservatives vs. sane people issue. Joe Biden didn’t take away abortion access and Amy Coney Barrett did.

      • starlinguk
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        It’s an us vs the patriarchy problem. Which doesn’t mean the same as men vs women.

    • @80085
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      I kinda disagree. Patriarchal laws and social norms hurt men as well. In this case, I’m sure the men in her life were negatively affected (not to the same degree of course).

    • @CalvinCopyright
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      Don’t tell me what to do.

      Specifically, laws written by straight, white, Republican men, for the sole purpose of gaining power over everyone who’s not straight, and everyone who’s not white, and everyone who’s not Republican, and everyone who’s not male… no matter how cruel the effects of the laws are. This is the actual Republican platform. In the pursuit of the ‘right’ people telling the ‘wrong’ people what to do, and in the pursuit of keeping the ‘wrong’ people from telling the ‘right’ people what to do, anything goes. Hypocrisy, lies, crime, election fraud, subverting courts, coups, false patriotism, false piety, terrorism, even outright murder… anything goes.

      Know the enemy, spread the word to your friends and family (and maybe further).

      • @[email protected]
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        Even though you’re right, I think this sentiment minimizes the horrific things the American christian right is doing.

        I keep seeing multiple variations of this comment on every single lemmy post about christian conservatives. Idk if it’s like an astroturfing thing or what, but it normalizes these kind of fascist acts. We should be shocked. We should be surprised and outraged and insulted. The minute we’re not is when it becomes normal. And we know that’s dangerous af because we’re already watching it happen.

        • @HardlightCereal
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          I read a story about an AI that was designed to save the world by telling humans what to do. The AI’s sentience was powered by taking in human souls. One of the AI’s moral directives was to feel empathy for any person it hurt. Since it was an AI designed to run the world, it would have to feel bad for hurting everyone in the world who ever died of a preventable cause. All the world’s pain and suffering, experienced by a single being possessing many souls.

          So the AI came up with the solution that it would force the souls of sinners it took in to feel this agony, and that’s how it would remain ethical.

          It invented hell.

          Because a scientist told it that it ought to feel bad when people are hurt.

          • @afraid_of_zombies
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            Cute idea for a story but the evidence isn’t there that belief in hell makes people moral. Societies that have higher hell belief show higher crimes rates compared to ones with lower ones. Plus there are a few religions that dont have a real hell.

            • @HardlightCereal
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              Yeah, in the story it didn’t make people moral either. But the AI couldn’t see that, because it was stuck in this loop of torturing itself and justifying all this pain with the idea that people “deserve it”, which is a belief that a person, even a superintelligent machine person, can never grow beyond so long as all they see in the world is suffering. One being experiencing all the pain in the world for hundreds of years. It wasn’t even a sapient being anymore, it was just a ball of pain and hate and rage executing this same program forever.

            • @SCB
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              Gallup polls are a really fun thing to do at work when you’re bored between meetings

              Like old myspace quizzes, but with a purpose.

            • @afraid_of_zombies
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              If someone tried to stop me at the mall or something to take a survey I would probably scream “who sent you!? What do they want?” And run away.

          • starlinguk
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            A lot of “pro life” women often turn out to be “I wouldn’t have an abortion” women. I’ve talked to plenty who turned out to actually be pro choice.

          • @afraid_of_zombies
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            The average age in the US is near 40. There are as much women between 20-24 as there are between 60-64. When it comes down to it only about 15% of the population can get pregnant without medical science. If anything the numbers should be much more pro-forced birth, but they aren’t because empathy.

      • @DeadDjembe
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        Men are the ones making the laws. And they have no idea about the biology. Take the politician from Ohio for example, who suggested that an ectopic pregnancy should be reimplanted into the uterus.

        • @CalvinCopyright
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          Don’t tell me what to do.

          This is the actual Republican platform. They don’t care about if they’re right about biology. They care about getting power, full stop. In the pursuit of the ‘right’ people telling the ‘wrong’ people what to do, and in the pursuit of keeping the ‘wrong’ people from telling the ‘right’ people what to do, anything goes. Hypocrisy, lies, crime, election fraud, subverting courts, coups, false patriotism, false piety, terrorism, even outright murder… anything goes.

          Know the enemy, spread the word to your friends and family (and maybe further).

        • @CaptionAdam
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          As a man I find the biology interesting to learn. I’m pretty sure e topic is due to the womb not forming correctly is it not? I’m probably wrong, but atleast I know that its impossible to save an ectopic pregnancy

          • @Shou
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            Not quite, but a good guess anyway. Ectopic pregnancies can happen to anyone.

            The uterine (fallopian) tubes are not homolog to the vas deferens. They are actually extensions from the uterus. They are not sealed to the ovaries and simply open up in the abdomonal cavity. They have tentacle like potrusions which try to grab onto eggs released by the ovary. When they fail at their job, the egg ends up somewhere in the abdomonal cavity.

            Transplantation is impossible for multiple reasons. One has to do with the placenta not forming inside either. You’d have to sever the supply and expect it to heal before a fetus dies. Another has to do with surgery on pregnant women should be avoided as much as possible. Then there is also the problen of fitting a fetus into the uterus. Imagine trying to fit a frail balloon inside a smaller tougher balloon. Surgery like this could result in the fetus simply not making it through alive. If it did, it could also mess up its own signaling and result in a miscarriage.

            Even if all that were possible. The risk to the mother’s health would make it not worth it. Surgical intervention would damage the surrounding tissues. Imagine leaving a fresh suture on a uterus that needs to expand massively within weeks to months.

            • @CaptionAdam
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              Thank you for correcting my miss understanding👍️

        • @Shardikprime
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          You say men as in like about 4 billion people are huddling in a room all evil like crunching up laws to make women’s lives worst which is certainly not the case.

          Also kind of a moot point as the same minority of “men” as you say creating laws, also create laws that don’t benefit men in general at all.

            • @Shardikprime
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              Kindly reread what I wrote because it seems you didn’t unless cherry picking parts of a post is what now passes as reading, in which case I suppose you think highly of yourself right now? Either way, doesn’t matter.

            • @ArcticCircleSystem
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              Why do they want that power and control though? Why do others not? ~Cherri

          • @DeadDjembe
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            apologies, you are correct, it is not all men. I forgot to qualify it, it is white christian men who push their religion onto the rest of society. And I say this as a white male raised christian.

          • @CaptionAdam
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            I dont disagree but they create laws that fuck everyone over men, women, trans, cis, straight, Queer. It doesn’t matter, but the current ones are focused on controls over women, and their bodys

          • @CalvinCopyright
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            Don’t tell me what to do.

            They’re not evil per se, it’s just that they’re after power, and they don’t care if they do evil things to get power… which, to a lot of people, means they’re evil. And yes, this is the actual Republican platform - straight white Christian men getting power over people who aren’t straight and white and Christian and male. In the pursuit of the ‘right’ people telling the ‘wrong’ people what to do, and in the pursuit of keeping the ‘wrong’ people from telling the ‘right’ people what to do, anything goes. Hypocrisy, lies, crime, election fraud, subverting courts, coups, false patriotism, false piety, terrorism, even outright murder… anything goes.

            Know the enemy, spread the word to your friends and family (and maybe further).

  • @MicroWaveOP
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    Heartbreaking

    One of the plaintiffs in the suit, Samantha Casiano, vomited on the stand while discussing her baby’s fatal birth defect, which she said also put her life at risk.

    Casiano said she learned at 20 weeks’ gestation that her baby had anencephaly, a serious condition that meant the infant was missing parts of her brain and skull. Casiano said her obstetrician told her the baby would not survive after birth and gave her information about funeral homes.

    Casiano read aloud a doctor’s note that diagnosed her pregnancy as high risk, then began to sob and ultimately threw up, prompting the judge to call a recess.

    • @Oderus
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      3 people downvoted facts? Fuck them.

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    Ashley Brandt, a Dallas resident, said she was pregnant with twins but learned one had a fatal condition called acrania. The longer she carried it, the more it jeopardized the survival of her other twin.

    oh my god…

    • @FattestMattest
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      I don’t think you can be any more “pro life” than putting 2 other healthy people at risk to save the life of a baby that’s going to die.

      • @journey01
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        Don’t forget many “pro lifers” are in the same demographic as pro death penalty.

        • @[email protected]
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          We’re actually running out of spots in hell for hardworking Christians at this point. We’re having to quadruple and octople stack souls together and it’s a bit alarming. I’ve been having to repeat a ton of times to the incredulous that feeling like you’re doing the right thing and doing the right thing, [aren’t the same thing].

          They seem genuinely shocked and confused, which leaves me feeling leery if they’re actually idiots or evil. Hanlon’s Razor says to always assume ignorance before malice.

          You guys gotta do something or all your old people are gonna end up cooking.

          • @HardlightCereal
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            You would not believe how many “leftists” I’ve told to stop using slurs or misgendering me, only to be told “but I didn’t meeeeeean it, so I don’t need to apologise”

            • @afraid_of_zombies
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              They shouldn’t do that but that isn’t relevant or of the same scale. And yes I do make a point to not misgender someone but I am positive that I am going to make mistakes.

              My sister-in-law is trans. I call her she. She is an amazing aunt and my kids love her.

        • @afraid_of_zombies
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          Yeah that never made sense. I am prochoice and hate the death penalty. It should only be used when the crime is such that you legit can not put it in the same category as regular murder and a message has to be sent. Like when some dictator commits genocide. That’s it. It has to be so extreme that the regular justice system doesn’t have a clue what to even do about it.

    • @[email protected]
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      Condolences to your friend and their family. That’s heartbreaking. I hope they’re doing as well as can be expected.

      • Proxima
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        They fear not being in control. Whether it’s control over others bodies or control over religion and government, or the fear of being a minority racial group, the one thing in common is they have to be the ones allowed to tell everyone else how to live.

        • @CalvinCopyright
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          Don’t tell me what to do.

          Did you read this? You comment makes me think you have. No one seems to be mentioning this despite how eminently reasonable it seems to be. Have you been sharing this link? I have been. I wish more people could read this.

          • Proxima
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            I hadn’t. Tanks for linking it!

      • @[email protected]
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        My understanding of it (based on discussions with my mom) is that they don’t fear the truth, they fear being wrong, because if they are wrong they then don’t have an answer anymore and it is deeply uncomfortable.

        The issue with this is that if you never acknowledge that you may be wrong, you can never learn.

        • Dodecahedron December
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          They’ve been wrong for a very long time. They are still waiting for trickle down economic (reaganomics) to work. Its been decades and nothing close to trickle down has ever come to fruition.

          Non-americans: trickle down is the idea that when we boost the profit of CEOs that money will “trickle down” to everyone else at the company. A laughable idea that has and will never work.

          • @Arsenal4ever
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            As the party of tax cuts for rich people, with 3 of the last 4 GOP presidents proudly cutting taxes for rich people, it has been interesting to watch the evolution of Trickle-down as the framing for these tax cuts.

            Even when it was clear the money would only trickle down to yachts, the W tax cuts (biggest ever) were seen as helping main street by increasing investment. This is trickle down, without saying it.

            By Trump’s tax cuts, he was just saying I cut taxes. He didn’t dance around phrases, he just said tax cuts for everyone and of course they weren’t, but with about 18 other lies that day, people can’t keep up.

            The next GOP president will cut taxes for rich people. It is the only thing you can count on.

            • Dodecahedron December
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              And by rich, we are talking yuge amounts of money, considering the GOP calls a family making $400k/year “middle class”. Middle class isn’t rich, we are talking about people who make a lot more than $400k/year.

              The only people who benefit from voting red are the super rich who use their money to influence poor dumb dumbs into thinking that they too will be rich one day, despite only making under $100k/year.

        • @CalvinCopyright
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          Don’t tell me what to do.

          This is the actual Republican platform. The only thing they want, is to have authority over everyone, and for no one to have authority over them. We are the ones who fear being wrong. Republicans, on the other hand, won’t lose a wink of sleep if lying gets them in power. In the pursuit of the ‘right’ people telling the ‘wrong’ people what to do, and in the pursuit of keeping the ‘wrong’ people from telling the ‘right’ people what to do, anything goes. Hypocrisy, lies, crime, election fraud, subverting courts, coups, false patriotism, false piety, terrorism, even outright murder… anything goes.

          Know the enemy, spread the word to your friends and family (and maybe further).

        • KptnAutismus
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          11 year ago

          something i recently learned is: you can change your opinion, this literally changed my life. if you feel your opinion is wrong, don’t stick to it. stick to facts and science.

          • @[email protected]
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            Yes, that is the whole point of the scientific method: you can only prove that something is wrong. It’s can be uncomfortable to realise that all our foundations could be destroyed at any time, but it is the only logical position one can hold.

        • @Riccosuave
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          I would argue that the VAST majority of the people pushing these ideologies do not believe the things they profess to believe and that they are pushing their followers to subscribe to. It is rank tribalism with the only goal being money & power for themselves at the expense of anyone that they deem to be a threat. It really is a zero sum game.

          There are the useful idiots that I would classify as the true believers, but their beliefs have often times been coopted either due to poor education or coercive indoctrination of assorted varieties (like religion for example).

          • @CalvinCopyright
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            Don’t tell me what to do.

            This is the actual Republican platform. It’s absolutely about getting control, not about any particular ideology. In fact, I’m pretty sure it’s why Republicans try their culture war junk, because WE care about ideologies, and it divides us. In the pursuit of the ‘right’ people telling the ‘wrong’ people what to do, and in the pursuit of keeping the ‘wrong’ people from telling the ‘right’ people what to do, anything goes. Hypocrisy, lies, crime, election fraud, subverting courts, coups, false patriotism, false piety, terrorism, even outright murder… anything goes.

            Know the enemy, spread the word to your friends and family (and maybe further).

    • Matt Shatt
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      Texas will soon be banning women from vomiting in public. That’ll solve that issue.

  • @[email protected]
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    These types of laws are sick and barbaric and not indicitive of a civilised society! These woman should not have to revisit their trauma but they are fucking made to by a sick group of degenerates who make laws that the majority simply don’t want!

      • @FlickOfTheBean
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        Power flex, mostly

        (Totally unrelated, but I keep seeing you around and I’m curious about why you sign your name. Is your account shared? Feel free to ignore if you don’t want to answer Im just curious)

        • @HardlightCereal
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          TL;DR for anyone else in the thread: multiple people share an account and sign who’s typing at the moment. The reason they share an account is that they share a brain.

          • @FlickOfTheBean
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            Ohh I see! I appreciate you answering when you didn’t have to! See you around! :)

            • @CaptionAdam
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              I also appreciate there awnser. Its nice to see people asking and answering questions respectfully

          • @Arielcorn
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            Thank you. One of my best friends has DID. I appreciate the info lots.

  • Move to lemm.ee
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    Was the video not in the article? I skimmed and watched that top one but saw it nowhere?

    Does anyone have it? Depending on how the person comes across in the moment it occurred the shock impact of these events is often useful at getting through to people.

    • @Cabrio
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      Have the mods clarified how to handle articles with content that is disingenuously or incorrectly represented in the title? I’ve asked before and still haven’t received any response.

        • @Cabrio
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          Thank you for your service.

  • @MostlyBirds
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    Any doctor who complies with this ban is a worthless piece of shit. Not as bad as the subhumans who wrote it and voted for it, but pretty fucking close.

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      “Physicians who violate Texas’s abortion laws can lose their medical licenses, face up to 99 years in prison or incur fines of at least $100,000, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights”

      You wouldn’t have to deal with any decision as hard as this. How can you say a doctor is complicit? They’re likely just doing their best then a law gets put in place threatening life in prison.

      Unless you’re put in that position, you have no room to say that shit.

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          How is that applicable to this particular discussion?

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            It’s the first fucking line of their oath

            Take the risk and provide the help or move to a state that allows you to help. Going along with the fascists isn’t the answer.

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              First of all, its not the first line. Second of all, that is in regards to avoiding harm through action, not taking action to prevent harm as you suggest it is.

      • @MostlyBirds
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        If a doctor is willing to stand there with their thumb up their asshole while their patient dies an easily preventable death, they’re a failure as a doctor and as a human being. At best, it’s negligent manslaughter.

        If you’re too much of a cowardly little rat to stand up against fascism to save a life, don’t be a fucking doctor; quit and go work at Taco Bell you belong.

        • @Fedizen
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          A doctor that throws away a career of helping people to make a political point once is probably not helping as many people as a doctor that avoids going to jail.

          I understand the impulse here but the reality is that texas legislators would probably prefer to reduce the number of doctors available to the poors.

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          Yea! Why don’t they all just line up to lose their medical licenses? That way they can’t help anyone!

          Shortsighted dumbass…

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            Must be nice living in your sheltered little bubble where the deaths are abstract and doing the right thing when lives are at stake is the wrong thing to do.

            You’re a morally bankrupt scumbag. People like you are the reason fascists win.

            • @Cabrio
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              Don’t let your ego hit you in the face when you open your eyes dickhead. Go throw yourself on a spear instead of telling other people they should you fucking degenerate keyboard coward.

              The people who voted to change the laws to prevent doctors doing their job don’t deserve the benefit of medical care, the rest are collateral damage from the actions of idiots; not the inaction of doctors you braindead troglodyte.

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              It’s easy to tell someone else to give up their freedom. What are you willing to risk over this issue, O righteous keyboard warrior?

            • @blue_zephyr
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              No actually it’s you standing on the safe sideline screaming from the top of your lungs that doctors should be throwing their lives away and go to prison for life to help a single patient that the state has decided to murder.

              If they did that then all the good doctors would be in prison after a week. Not a great plan. And I bet you’d be singing a different tune if it was your life on the line.

        • @[email protected]
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          Now your knocking Taco Bell employees??? They are just trying to make a living like everyone else…

          Not making a good case for yourself.

        • @[email protected]
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          Once all these doctors fall on their swords, who’ll be left to treat the rest of us?

          I understand your sentiment, but it’s misdirected.