TESTIFY ... And watch the right run

...This past September, however, Lynn Paltrow, Executive Director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW), had the guts to pose hard questions and clear challenges to the South Dakota Task Force to Study Abortion (SDTFSA) when she gave testimony before them. In doing so, she silenced the room — and laid out a way to put the right on the run.
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Paltrow offered a grim assessment of the harm that “pro-life” legislation has done in the name of “protecting” the “unborn.” She outlined three actual cases in which hospitals successfully advocated for a cesarean section over the objections of pregnant women and their families by using the anti-abortion argument that fetuses are separate legal persons with independent rights.
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The first case ends tragically, with the death of the mother and the fetus; in the second, the forced surgery turns out not to have been necessary; and the couple in the third scenario — devout Christians who are expecting their seventh child — leave the hospital that is trying to force a cesarean section on the mother and successfully have their baby elsewhere, through vaginal delivery.
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Having eviscerated the argument that “pro-life” policies support the health, well-being, and autonomy of women who want to carry their pregnancies to term, Paltrow turns to the larger task of outlining genuine protections and supports for pregnant and parenting women...