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A defect that makes survival unlikely for the child, and seriously threatens the health of the mother.
This pregnancy did not seriously threaten the health of the mother significantly more than any other pregnancy. There was a unique risk to Kate Cox in that she had already had 2 c-sections, each one had is more likely to be the last time she'll ever be pregnant, so the abortion was meant to preserve a potentially limited number of full term pregnancies she'd be able to deliver, but that's not a risk unique to trisomy18, that would still be the case with a completely healthy fetus. You'd have to define pregnancy itself as a medical emergency to call that a medical emergency.
 

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This pregnancy did not seriously threaten the health of the mother significantly more than any other pregnancy. There was a unique risk to Kate Cox in that she had already had 2 c-sections, each one had is more likely to be the last time she'll ever be pregnant, so the abortion was meant to preserve a potentially limited number of full term pregnancies she'd be able to deliver, but that's not a risk unique to trisomy18, that would still be the case with a completely healthy fetus. You'd have to define pregnancy itself as a medical emergency to call that a medical emergency.
This is just contradicting her doctors, in the advice given to her and in court filings. They considered the foetus unviable and the mother's health severely at risk. I don't give a shit if you, with your zero medical expertise, disagree; you said the doctors could determine it and the law would let them if that was their belief. That didn't happen, and you're fine with it.

And let's be honest; there would always be people making the same judgement you're making now. Any doctor determining any emergency would face people insisting it wasn't an emergency so didn't count and wasn't protected. And then people like Paxton would happily pursue it, doctor's judgement be damned.
 
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This is just contradicting her doctors, in the advice given to her and in court filings. They considered the foetus unviable and the mother's health severely at risk. I don't give a shit if you, with your zero medical expertise, disagree; you said the doctors could determine it and the law would let them if that was their belief. That wasn't true, and you're fine with it.
Who cares what doctors have to say about health?! Tstorm speaks for God.
 
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The old men with the money are noticeable uninterested in trees and other living things.
But they are semi-interested in tech, which is how we can geoengineer new trees.

Eventually yes, asteroid mining and space manifacturing will likely occur. But it is very much not in reach, not even remotely. It will take centuries to get there.

Also, no, this whole space mining and space manufacturing won't have humans in space. It will safe all the life support stuff, be able to accept higher risks and will run in a combination of remote and AI control for everything.


But as said, we are very much not there yet. We can send a probe to the asteroid belt, that's it. How much bigger and more expensive will a mining station be ? How does it get repaired without getting any external supplies ? How will it work ? What kind of materials can it even extract ? How exactly are we going to use those materials, which are in the asteroid belt near the mining station now ? Are we sending full assembly lines after the mining station ? Assembly lines for what exactly ?

It is not impossible to answer this stuff, but it really is a long time off. And no, SpaceX can't do it either. The only thing SpaceX can do is put stuff in the Earth orbit, slightly cheaper than before.
Right now it can't. But it will eventually.
 

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It will probably be long gone before we start asteroid mining. Few companies survive several centuries.
My bad I meant humanity as a whole. Yes, SpaceX will likely die or be split off like AT&T. And if it doesn't that means it's a corporate dystopia.
 

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This is just contradicting her doctors, in the advice given to her and in court filings. They considered the foetus unviable and the mother's health severely at risk. I don't give a shit if you, with your zero medical expertise, disagree; you said the doctors could determine it and the law would let them if that was their belief. That didn't happen, and you're fine with it.

And let's be honest; there would always be people making the same judgement you're making now. Any doctor determining any emergency would face people insisting it wasn't an emergency so didn't count and wasn't protected. And then people like Paxton would happily pursue it, doctor's judgement be damned.
Personally, I don't believe those doctors believed they're was a medical emergency. I think they were lying in the filings to test the boundaries of a new law, and they advised her to get an abortion out of state to make the case moot so nobody involved would end up charged with perjury.
 

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Personally, I don't believe those doctors believed they're was a medical emergency. I think they were lying in the filings to test the boundaries of a new law, and they advised her to get an abortion out of state to make the case moot so nobody involved would end up charged with perjury.
Of course you do.
 
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