DES MOINES, IA — Jessica Djukanovic, a conservative wrestling coach, mother of four, and loyal voter for the “Traditional Values and Strict Legislation Party,” is reportedly “shocked and appalled” to discover that the very laws she helped implement are currently treating her life as a secondary concern to a non-viable fetus.
And what if she just lies? This is more or less true for me: I have an IUD that has more or less ended my periods. Whenever they ask me for a last period I just say I don’t have one and that I am not pregnant. I do not entertain any of their speculation. If you have no intention of remaining pregnant, it’s a good enough answer.
I am skeptical of your story because I don’t think any medical facility would accept the result of a pregnancy test not administered by a medical professional.
Well it happened.
You’re right they wouldn’t have accepted the results. They called her while she was taking the pregnancy test to tell her not to bother, because it wouldn’t be accurate enough anyway.
She was going to fight them on it, but the test was positive. So she just came home instead.
Her regular doctor said she wasn’t going to recommend that facility anymore, because the whole thing is fucked up regardless of the outcome.
Even though mammograms are generally considered safe during pregnancy, her doctor just did an ultrasound instead. I believe that’s because the doctor wasn’t that worried about the lump, otherwise she’d have gotten the mammogram.
I didn’t mention all that other stuff in my original comment because I don’t want to distract from how fucked up it is that they treated her that way. It doesn’t matter whether she was actually pregnant, or even if mammograms are considered unsafe for pregnant women (and again, they’re generally not). They put a hypothetical unborn child over my wife’s health. It’s unacceptable.