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Her Life Was at Risk. Alabama Didn't Care.
At 24 years old, Tamara Costa and her husband Caleb were raising a toddler and delighted to have another child on the way. But then, they got devastating news: The fetus was missing its skull, and many of its organs, including the heart, were outside its body.
There was no way the baby would survive the pregnancy-but Alabama’s strict abortion ban doesn’t allow termination, and the state has threatened to prosecute anyone who helps patients receive information. And so Tamara’s doctor, she says, simply handed her a sticky note with a phone number and the words “Planned Parenthood Chicago” written on it.
Chicago is 580 miles from Huntsville, Alabama.
In an exclusive story, the Costas spoke to T...
There was no way the baby would survive the pregnancy-but Alabama’s strict abortion ban doesn’t allow termination, and the state has threatened to prosecute anyone who helps patients receive information. And so Tamara’s doctor, she says, simply handed her a sticky note with a phone number and the words “Planned Parenthood Chicago” written on it.
Chicago is 580 miles from Huntsville, Alabama.
In an exclusive story, the Costas spoke to T...
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So Where Do We Go from Here?
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You Can’t Fix Abortion Without Voting Rights!
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Pro-Choice, but Not Pro-Everybody?
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The Other A Word: Adoption
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The Dominican Republic's Total Abortion Ban
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There is a total abortion ban in the Dominican Republic that is costing women and girls their lives. The stories told in this PSA, voiced by Leslie Grace, Laura Gomez, Laith Ashley, and Jillian Mercado illustrate the grim reality this total ban has on its citizens. Luis Abinader, president of the Dominican Republic, has the power to legalize three exceptions to the ban: when the life or health ...
Love Abortion? Don’t Talk to Cops!
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Unsafe abortion mentions: 3:17-3:31 and 4:02 - 4:24 For episode notes, transcripts, and further reading and resources, visit The A Files website. (wearethemeteor.com/work/the-a-files/) Follow Renee on Instagram ( reneebraceysherman) and X (Twitter) ( RBraceySherman) Follow Regina on Instagram ( byreginamahone) and X (Twitter) ( byreginamahone) F...
Good States, Bad States? Not So Fast
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Unapologetic Blackness, Unapologetic Abortions
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Everyone Loves Someone Who’s Had an Abortion
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Welcome to The A Files: A Secret History of Abortion
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The first two episodes of The A Files premiere on January 17th. For episode notes, transcripts, and further reading and resources, visit The A Files website. (wearethemeteor.com/work/the-a-files/)
Hala Alyan: Bearing Witness
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This conversation took place at The Meteor's Meet The Moment event in partnership with the @BrooklynMuseum featuring dozens of inspiring speakers and performers. For more updates follow The Meteor on Instagram: @TheMeteor
Dawn Porter: The Supreme Court, Explained
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Ilana Glazer: What Our Vote Can Actually Do
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Ilana Glazer: What Our Vote Can Actually Do
Ilana Glazer & Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Taylor: Hope In The Time Of Climate Disaster
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Ilana Glazer & Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Taylor: Hope In The Time Of Climate Disaster
Sherry Cassano and Toni Thompson in Conversation at Work Shift - The Meteor
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Our Political Moment: Where Do We Go From Here?
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Truth To Power: It Starts With One Story
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Life After Roe: Stories From the Frontlines
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damn this is dark
The kids might as well be result of incest in this state. 🙄
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God will answer our prayers and hopes at the right time, and will replace something lost with something new and better as long as we are patient and do not give up.
Thank Nancy for all the work you do. Sending love and respect from Germany ❤
But didn’t Ted Cruz himself reassure us that pregnancy is not a disease? Why does any woman even need obstetric care? I’ve heard that Aboriginal woman walking across the desert at the onset of labor just drop back for a half hour and then catch up with the group! Pregnancy and delivery are natural! Vote for me! I’m pro-life! And pro-femicide, too! (My apologies to Aboriginal women everywhere, but that’s something that was commonly trotted out as proof that American women were weak and self indulgent about labor and delivery in the 1980s. Didn’t venerably bearded Dr Lamaze ‘prove’ that labor pain is all in a woman’s head in the 1960s? She just needs to train to relax and breathe like he tells her to! ) If men had babies obstetric and maternity care would be the best funded, best researched, best anesthetized, most revered medical practice in the world. But as it’s “women’s work”, look the other way lest your masculine sensibilities be deranged by blood and mucus and placenta, and agony and death. How inconvenient. In 1954 as I was crowning, my mom was told to keep her legs together because the OBGYN was still on the golf course. In the 1960s I grew up seeing full page color photos of a dead woman on a back alley abortionists table in major magazines. Make America great again? What woman in her right mind, what truly Christian woman, would fall for that big lie?
Every time I hear another story like this I am filled with rage, and more heartbreak. I'm exhausted by the cruelty inflicted on us by Republican lawmakers who have no clue at all about how human bodies even work.
its a 1.5 hour flight and about $170 round trip to chicago right now. catch a flight.
@donut7907 Booking flights last-minute can be very expensive, even more so if it's around the holidays. Their credit card limit may have been low ($2,000) and already had expenses on it, so I coukd see them maxing it out if plane tickets cost $400+ each.
NO abortion bans for ANY reason! This is so messed up! What is going on in America? We are supposed to be the world leaders, we are not even close.
"Nothing changes if nothing changes." Two hundred years ago, it was black women on slave-breeding plantations; today, it's forced pregnancy through denial of abortion rights. The South continues its inglorious tradition of forcing enslaved women to bear children.
This story is why we must vote for those who are pro-women. We're not going back! 💙
God damn Alabama GOP politicians.
And the ones in Texas that threaten pregnant peoples' lives also!
@@karelriley2406 ALL of them! So sick of this! #VoteProChoice
pretty sure He isnt going to damn the people trying to prevent the killing of children... probably the other way around I'd say.
@@karelriley2406 Yes, all the states with abortion bans!
very nice video
Tamara and Caleb. Your story touched me this morning. Wishing you and your family well. Be strong and keep inspiring others through your story! Love & Peace!
I am so sick of this!!! Why in world would you put the mother’s life at risk when it is determined that the pregnancy is NOT viable!! Like he said “Make it make sense”!! 🤬
Because Republicans think with their Bibles not their brains. This is what you get when that happens.
Christian fanatics don't need to make sense.
A lot of them don't believe this kind of pregnancy malfunction happens as often or as completely as this young woman's. Pregnancy is all bunnies, rainbows, and meadows until it hurts real bad and then you have your baby! If they do acknowledge that things can go totally bad, many think it doesn't happen enough for legislation to be crafted to accommodate or they assume logic is already being applied. Others don't care. When I was a women's healthcare center sidewalk volunteer, I was genuinely shaken by some of the horrible things the grown up adult people with rosaries, crosses, and gory signs said to the women and couples as they walked past them into the clinic. An elderly female protestor once got behind me when I was part of a human "buffer zone." She said that if women die during pregnancy or delivery, so be it. Her mother had died giving birth to her, so others should make that sacrifice. The entire scenario was frankly chilling. It certainly didn't motivate me to have a basketball team worth of babies.
And trump said he’s “women’s protector” because of overturning Roe. No, he’s more like their unaliver (can’t use the real word here you know), because, although this woman was lucky, others are dying, in ALL the states that overturned reproductive healthcare. I hope the families of the women who weren’t so lucky will sue trump, and/or the individual justices on the Supreme Court who overturned the law that actually protected us for 50 years.
That woman sought lifesaving healthcare, And instead, a board cerified OBGYN handed her a fucking sticky note? Unacceptable.
No, it's acceptable to Alabama GOP.
It's acceptable to the GOP. Not to people with ethics or morals, but the current GOP appears to find this situation acceptable. "Let the States decide!" I believe there were people who wanted to do that with slavery once upon a time, too. If you can convince enough people that some born human being is Lesser Than, this kind of nonsense becomes "acceptable." They'll use the word "tragic," or "unfortunate," though.
Blame the misogynists in power, in the state legislature and governor's office, for that. The OB/GYN did the best she could, and probably risked losing her license to practice even for that sticky note.
@@romielnagar6292 Oh, we DO blame them, but we need to SHOW UP at the polls to defeat them. This election is far too close. HOW can it even BE this close? #VoteHARRISWALZ #WomenForHARRIS
The doctor put herself at risk to get that basic info to the patient. In many states doctors are facing many years in prison for doing nothing more than Tamara and Caleb's doctor did.
Its generally thought, in the long run, those of your ancestry dont take their work home with them. Or, the recovery is usually certain, if given time.
Bravo to this woman 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 I can’t same I’m a big Supergirl fan, but nobody should have to go through domestic violence. And hearing her describe exactly happened was heartbreaking. I hope anybody who’s going through it finds the strength to leave if you can 🙏🏿❤️
I personally find it insane someone would look at one the most beautiful faces in the world & would want to deck it!
Qualified medical ethicist here. Accurate information is important for properly informed consent. Deliberate abortion, as opposed to accidental miscarriage, is the deliberate killing of a human being before natural birth. When a child is conceived, he or she is a complete human being and is no more part of the mother's body than part of the father's but is physically dependent on the mother's blood for food and oxygen only, which passes from the mother's blood into the baby's across the placenta. If a biologist got hold of a piece of the baby's body tissue. however soon after conception (fertilisation) the biologist could tell that that tissue was from a human being who was neither the mother nor the father. Proof that the baby is not part of the bio mother's body is shown in a number of different ways. Male sperm and female ovum can be combined in a petrie dish and conception can occur and the child can be placed inside the prepared body of a woman not even related to the biological parents and can grow normally until strong enough to be born. The lungs are normally expandable at 20-22 weeks. We do not currently know how to get oxygen into the baby's blood other than through the placenta. If an expectant mother dies later on in pregnancy from an accident or illness, if the baby can be removed from her womb within an hour or so, that baby can carry on growing and developing as normal, again proving that baby is not part of the mother's body. As science consistently demonstrates this fact, there are certain ethical questions which arise when discussing deliberate abortion. Is it ethically acceptable for one person to have the right to kill another, usually because the other is inconvenient? Can one person own another, i.e. has slavery not really been abolished? A pre natal infant is sentient, i.e. can feel pain, from about six weeks into his or her mother's pregnancy onwards, usually starting from round the mouth. Most forms of abortion involve extremely painful procedures for the child; burning to death, vivisection (cutting up alive), suffocation etc. A humane solution to a pregnancy where the mother cannot or does not want to raise her child is adoption. There is a long waiting list of approved people and families who want to adopt but are not given the opportunity. There really is no such thing as an unwanted child. A very important aspect of such a situation is that health care professionals are not robots who are objective observers in the practice of aborting a child for the purpose of bringing about his or her death. Health care professionals are also responsible to themselves in that they 'first do no harm' (primo non nocere) in any situation involving patients. Is it really appropriate that our health care professionals should just be 'mindless plumbers', there to follow the demands of patients? Is that what people go into medicine for? If so, how can health care professionals be trusted to save lives when they also kill?
I couldn't be more thrilled that she's been in a loving caring cherished relationship with Chris for 7 years now. She is truly Supergirl the Woman of Steel, it wasn't just a written part for her. ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for sharing this very difficult time in your life. I'm currently watching your Supergirl series and was so happy to find out you married Chris Wood. On screen, you both have a great chemistry together. I'm so sorry this happened to you and so mad that monster permanently damaged your left eye but so proud of you that you have survived your ordeal and have moved forward with your life especially your acting life. Don't ever let that moment of your life define you. You are a beautiful lady inside and out and deserve all the best life can offer and now you have a son you're living for. God bless. Continue to shine.
I'll do my best to vote this time. Thank you for changing my mind. 🕊️
thank you Melissa Benoist for sharing your pain...
Nothing will change even if President Abinader wanted to change it, due to the Concordat of 1954. The church has the final say . This is truly sad. And what is even more sad is that the one person that fought against the concordat was elected by the ppl ( but removed by a coup USA backed and church support) IJS.
Милая ты класная девчонка я тебя обажаю⚘❤❤⚘
What ever the vote is your still choosing yourself as it’s usually in your best interest
We are so happy that you posted in this video. Did I know that you're Nervous to tell everybody but to just let you know. if you're getting abused again or you're sad and heartbroken. Just know that we're here for you to support you whatever you are feeling and we all love you Melissa.😢😢😢😢
Bonjour comment allez bien
watching glee and seeing them act together makes my stomach churn. melissa is so strong truly
Beautiful human and woman Melissa
This couple's whole story is crazy. She's been an abortion activist since jump street, she jumped on the bandwagon to sue Texas over their abortion laws immediately, she's been to Washington to lobby for abortion, and she's seemingly "grieving" because her baby died because she couldn't abort it and kill it anyway? Does that make ANY sense? I've read what is available about her case history, she had a rare cervical defect that started this whole process, contrary to other stories, her water DID NOT break. She wasn't immediately showing signs of illness, the baby's heartbeat was okay, to her doctors she seemed stable. An "at risk" pregnancy, but generally stable. Things got worse, the baby died, they promptly removed it, and she spent a WHOLE WEEK in the ICU being treated for an infection with antibiotics while under observation. The main cause of this, and what likely killed her baby, was a blood pressure medicine prescribed to her at that time which she had a negative reaction to. I'm a man and I had this same issue, six years ago I had a negative reaction to a blood pressure medicine and I spent six days in the hospital while they worked to get my BP back up and stabilize my heart rate. And yes, I became very sick, I developed an infection in my lungs, I ran high fever, it took weeks after I got out of the hospital to get back to normal. The fault here lies with her physicians and no one else. Texas allows abortion if the mother's life is at risk - the ONLY people who determine that are HER doctors - not the Texas state legislature or the federal government, that is entirely up to HER physicians. My daughter is a labor/delivery nurse, we've talked about this case ever since they popped up on the radar, but a LOT since the ridiculous Biden ad which shows her grieving so much because her daughter that she wanted to kill is dead, and somehow, that's Trump's fault. Her lawsuit against Texas is just for HER pain and suffering and HER PTSD because she got sick, which she blames on not getting an abortion. Nothing about her child, which she quickly wanted to kill anyway. And her hubby's remark about states being "justed as f*cked up as Texas" is telling. Austin has a big airport, you want an abortion that badly, get on a plane and go to any state that still allows abortion - plane tickets aren't very expensive. Bottom line, she had a rare cervical condition, she would have gotten very sick either way, if she had had an abortion or not. Either way, the only people to blame for ANYTHING in this instance are her doctors, and the couple themselves. If a doctor tells my wife she could die if she doesn't get a surgical procedure that's illegal in our state (whatever that would be), we'd be on an airplane before the sun went down to get her somewhere that she could get that operation. This is nothing but self-serving propaganda from a couple looking to get liberal fame and make some money over a tragic situation.
Stop being mean to my big sister
Melissaİ loved your beauty
That is a wonderful poem and you, dear lady, are a wonderful poet.
Vote third party. Don’t expect to win in the first election cycle. Lincoln was a third party candidate who went all the way in the Republican Party’s second cycle. Abandon the duopoly! Voting for the lesser of two weevils is still voting for a weevil.
Soror you are my favorite poet ever!! Thank you so much!
according to this 'intellectual' the climate crisis is due to white men and in order to save it we need to protect black trans people. LMAO 🤡🌍 R.I.P. Humanity
yo i just realized you cut out the 'its not only man made but WHITE MAN made.' you cut that RIGHT out of this segment. WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
thank you i’m coming to terms i was being mentally abused that could’ve ended up very badly due to him punching the wall a couple times when mad at me just showed me if he was willing to be violent in front of me what else would he do
Ive never seen such priviledge... these young racists are doomed to an awful outcome. I hope its televised.
Melissa Benoist is my Supergirl Kara on and off screen and like the legendary Christopher Reeve as Superman she Melissa became a real life Supergirl after what she went through with domestic violence and came out stronger because of it. No man should hit a woman ever it's just wrong. I am a huge fan of Melissa's work have been for years. Very happy she came out stronger than ever. Help Hope and Compassion For All ! that's Supergirl's motto and we could all use a lot of kindness in the world because gosh knows we need it now. I'm glad Chris Wood is giving Melissa all the love in the world and she is so happy. Take care Melissa you will always be my Supergirl Kara Zor-EL Always and Forever 💗💙❤!!!
It's unfortunate how she refuses to own up to her part in the abusive relationship. When Blake Jenner took responsibility and spoke about his perspective, she chose not to respond. Her silence speaks volumes. She reminds me of another Amber Heard.
Why would someone want to do this to a woman especially your wife the one you profess your love for. She is the most sweetest woman out there. That is sad that women have to care this pain forever.
I don't hear one word about I went to the police and file a complaint they took me to the hospital so they can do a rape kit on me I don't hear the magic words I don't hear her naming her partner everybody suspect that it was her ex-husband the one she met on Glee what a pity I didn't help have no sympathy for her because she didn't drop who the guy was or person who did it which means that she was protecting this jerk and the fact that she didn't do that that meant he had something on her. The problem with Melissa is she just doesn't do social media
Love this. such an important statement. I learned about politics form my mother who started me working the polls at 7 years old. Just 2 days ago while lying in hospice at 89 years old and watching Biden's state of the Union address, she had a panic attack, because she was concerned that she might not get an opportunity to vote this year. Yeah my Mama is a thug too, and so am I.
I tell all the women and girls I care about, that once a man gets violent with them, no matter how much they apologize, it always gets worse. I'm glad you survived that ordeal, you are a wonderful actress and I enjoy seeing you on the screen. Speaking out is a huge step. Kudos to you!
Thank you for sharing your story Melissa. It will help many other women. I have endured the same but with a parent. Years of therapy, journaling and meditation have helped. Glad you are safe and away from that guy.
An abortion is not considered successful unless a human being dies. It is, by definition, NOT healthcare. Additionally, there are ZERO obstetrics textbooks, ZERO gynecology universities, ZERO documents in any medical journal or otherwise, which lists "abortion" as a treatment for any disease. "Life saving abortions" simply do not exist. Ask any OB/GYN and they will tell you, since 93% of them refuse to perform abortions (source: NIH. NLM). If abortion is healthcare, why do virtually all healthcare professionals refuse to commit them? Why is there no healthcare authority on earth which lists them as such? Why does it defy the basic definition of healthcare, which entails improving (not destroying) the human health?
So you are saying there is no health condition that might require abortion to save the life of the mother? I am not a doctor, but I can name at least 4 conditions when abortion saves the life of the mother. 1 - ectopic pregnancy 2 - cancer 3 - heart condition of the mother 4 - when the fetus died and spontaneous abortion (a.k.a. miscarriage ) doesn't happen naturally
And I think you also misunderstand the term disease and health condition. Those are 2 different things
@@NoirChloe 1. Ectopic pregnancies aren't treated with abortion. If they're tubal they're usually treated with an antimetabolite like methotrexate, or straight up surgery. I have no idea why you think any of those things are an abortion. They're not even remotely close to D&E, D&X, vacuum aspiration, or any other abortion procedure. In fact, Planned Parenthood literally says on their website "No, removing an ectopic pregnancy is not an abortion and we don't do that here". Who told you that was an abortion??? 2. Once again, I have no idea who told you that cancer is treated by committing an abortion...? 3. ??? 4. Completing a miscarriage is not an abortion either. See Mayo Clinic, CDC, National Library of Medicine...
Her abuser should be ashamed of himself