I see that this is still trending, and I didn’t know who the artist was who modified this when I posted it (read: I didn’t make this), but better late than never.
The artist is Amanda Morley Miller.
This is bad and you should feel bad.
How dare you take the most out of pocket and tone deaf comic and make it a heart breaking political piece?
I can’t believe how effective this is at tapping into our understanding of what’s supposed to happen in this meme and applying it to what’s actually happening in the real world. The title tells you what it’s going to be and even still the message hit hard out of left field. This is how you get a point across.
This was almost my Mom in 1980. She was bleeding out due to a complication from pregnancy. If the doctors hadn’t performed an emergency abortion she’d have died, and I’d never have lived. Abortions save lives.
How the fuck will this reach people who believe the government is controlled by Jews who employ space lasers and drag queens?
Tell them less (fewer) abortions are exactly what the black trans community want the most.
But honestly, just start throwing southern preachers who promote politics from the pulpit in prison, as dense and arrogant as they are, they’ll get the message eventually.
Not having words helps.
Oh fuck that’s good. Oh man, there needs to be at work to describe something like this. Where it’s brilliant but deeply upsetting troubling and realistic at the same time.
Irreverent?
Flippant?
Thank you for sharing. That’s a rich article for topic hopping
Do we have a community around culture jamming yet? We need this.
Pretty hard to “think of the children,” like Republicans keep demanding we do, when there are no children to give.
They just said “think about the children”, not “help the children”, or “feed the children”, or “protect the children”.
Just think about them. In which manner? It’s up to your liking and preferences.
While you’re thinking about them, throw in some prayers too.
They’re erect when they think of children.
Funny and horrifying.
What is the receptionist pointing at in the third panel and why?
That’s the exit. Because the woman is not inside.
I still don’t get it. He tries to get help, she points him to the exit. Huh?
Abortion is the treatment for miscarriage, hospitals in some US states (read: third-world hell-holes) are refusing to treat mothers miscarrying as their
fascist overlordsstate government officials have fully banned all abortions. The hospital staff could literally go to jail for saving the life of a dying woman who’s pregnancy failed naturally. So you end up with situations like this where mothers just die in the parking lot of the hospital. I imagine they get to come in after that though, no more potential abortions and the morgue is probably right there in the basement! How convenient.I assume she’s telling him, “we can’t help you and you need to leave.”
I’m assuming the receptionist is saying, “we can’t help you. You’ll need to leave.”
The original Loss comic is about a miscarriage. The husband goes to the hospital, is directed to his wife’s room, and he has to cope with the loss of the pregnancy with his wife. The reason this 4-panel comic became a meme is largely because this was a departure from the previous tone of the webcomic it came from, and was used as a “fridging” trope, so people tend to make fun of it (but I digress).
In a red state, the hospital would refuse treatment for a miscarriage out of fear of being criminally charged with performing an abortion for helping terminate a non-viable pregnancy. They would turn the patient away, and only intervene with the patient is bleeding out and dying, but by that point it’s usually too late.
What is depicted in this comic is a real-world example of what happens to women in red states who suffer miscarriages. They are denied medical treatment, and have literally bled out and died in their cars in the parking lot because nobody would help them.
1 in 5 pregnancies ends in a miscarriage. A lot of women have died completely unnecessary deaths in red states since Roe v. Wade was struck down.
Thanks for the explanation. I thought there was another layer of meaning packed in I was missing.
Way to go, bud. Good explaner. 100% agreed.
The proportion of pregnancies that end in miscarriage is MUCH higher than that. Many “pregnancies” (read: fertilized ova) don’t implant in the uterus or implant and fail to progress which ends up looking like a heavy period that’s a little late. Judging the start of “life” as fertilization is absolutely inane because of how many fertilized ova just don’t make it past 16 cells or so.
You’re describing “implantation failure”, which is definitely more common than 1 in 5, but it is also not considered a miscarriage and it virtually never results in a medical emergency. This is generally viewed as a failure to become pregnant, not a failure of a pregnancy.
A miscarriage is when the embryo does implant, but the pregnancy fails. This include ectopic pregnancies where the embryo is able to implant and begin growing, but the implantation occurs outside of the ovaries (usually in the Fallopian Tubes). A miscarriage is almost always a medical emergency, especially an ectopic pregnancy.
1 in 50 pregnancies are ectopic, and this is the most dangerous diagnosis you can have in a red state. The embryo remains “alive” and “healthy” (as far as the law is concerned), but it is doomed to miscarry since it is implanted outside of the ovaries (and there is no real way to re-implant the embryo). But, because the embryo is still “alive”, red state policies treat the termination of an ectopic pregnancy as an illegal abortion, so doctors are forced to wait until it escalates into a medical emergency (which it 100% will), because treating it proactively before it becomes an emergency doesn’t pass the “medically necessary” requirements that Republican men with no understanding of female anatomy wrote into law.
But again, waiting until a woman is bleeding out or going septic is waiting too late, so women die.
Great write up but implantation in viable pregnancies should be occurring in the uterus, not the ovaries.
You are correct. Fixed.
I was referring to the many instances in which the blastocyst does implant, but fails to grow past the initial stages of development. Progression to the point of differentiation of tissues is the hurdle that many fertilized ova fail to clear. Failure of implantation is still important to discuss in the political context given that there are so many people with an absolute absence of biology education that think that life begins at fertilization.
I would be interested in a source on this claim, because 20% is roughly the number I’m getting from multiple reputable sources.
Regardless, pregnancy complications when the embryo is still a blastocyst isn’t something that typically represents a medical emergency, so it’s not really what anyone is talking about in regards to women being denied lifesaving medical care.
He’s looking for the woman in the hospital. The person at the desk is saying she’s outside.
Oh, he wasn’t the one who brought her. That makes sense.
Jesus Christ, Lemmy.
Jesus Christ,
LemmyChristofascists.FTFY. It’s not Lemmy’s fault that that’s what’s happening IRL!
Not in Kansas (thanks state supreme court)
I don’t get why I ever liked that comic.
Ctrl Alt Del was great when it was making jokes about games. Then after the year long home invasion arc, it turned into a soap opera and the core audience stopped reading it.
There was a home invasion ark that lasted a year???
It certainly felt like it. I truly lost count of how many weeks went by while Ethan and Lucas were trapped in their apartment. It seemingly never ended, but it eventually gave Scott something to do (he was perpetually locked in his bedroom, presumably tinkering with his Arch build).
You know who had an ark? Noah.
JFC this is horrifying and heartbreaking. But that’s the reality for women in Republican-ruled U.S. states, they are being denied health care. The cruelty is intentional.
Pro-Life!!!
We’re so Pro-Life that we’ll risk your health and even let you die!
And if you even attempt to seek medical care for this we’ll kill you and the provider!
BECAUSE WE’RE SO PRO-LIFE
They are anti-women
They want live babies who grow up to be dead soldiers.
“is this a red state?” is the “is this loss?” of real life