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Gillian Branstetter
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Read this story about a Texas woman forced to give birth to twins doomed to die outside the womb and ask if a single anti-abortion politician will ever see the gates of heaven

DALLAS — Miranda Michel’s eyes popped open on the operating table, panic gripping her body. Was she too late?

Doctors had said her twins might only survive two or three minutes. She didn’t know if they’d already been born, how much time had passed, if she had missed it entirely, if they were already gone.

During the two-hour surgery, as doctors sawed through scar tissue from three previous C-sections, Miranda tried to fight the sedation, waking in alarm, then slipping back to sleep after her partner and mother-in-law assured her the babies were still safe inside her.

Miranda’s prognosis was as clear today as when she first heard it, four months ago: a zero percent chance of viability, for either twin. But Texas’ new abortion laws, which make no exception for lethal fetal anomalies, required Miranda to carry this pregnancy through to the bitter end.

Now, that end was here. Sliding in and out of consciousness, Miranda flashed through the possibilities she’d spent months preparing her
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RTrivertalesien.bsky.social

Never could believe in hell. Too ridiculous. Nowadays, though, I find it so easy.

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STsophiethebear.bsky.social

If there was a heaven, those bastards would never come near it

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CEcitizene.bsky.social

These Republican ghouls will all rot in the darkest pits of hell

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MBmabehr.bsky.social

I know someone who had to go through that and it was just beyond devastating. Recalling her story brings *me* to tears 10+ years later. It’s something no one should have to experience. To force it upon someone? Beyond evil.

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Gillian Branstetter
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