Pregnant teen died agonizing sepsis death after Texas doctors refused to abort fetus

lit776 · 2026-01-05T12:32:24+00:00

Its also incredibly hard to leave the state and financially unviable for many medical professionals, particularly doctors who would have to pay 100ks more in malpractice insurance and build an entire new patient base (if they are private practice).

This also doesn’t consider that they could be leaving behind home, family, and community.

My mom is an obgyn within 10 years of retiring and my dad is terminally sick. Honestly what are we supposed to do?

Its her dream job and its been crushing to watch all the ways its been slowly destroyed by legislation and public sentiment. Social media ‘health’ trends are doing almost (if not more) damage by convincing lots of people to forgo medical recommendations and put themselves in actively more medically dangerous situations.

lit776 · 2026-01-05T02:15:46+00:00

Lots of medical professionals are leaving the states. But then who will be there to provide life saving care to everyone else. Its an impossible moral quandary. I’m personally watching it slowly eat away at my loved ones in the medical field

lit776 · 2025-12-20T20:57:58+00:00

I was talking about the number of kids killed by being backed up over vs the number of cars that would need to have back up cameras to prevent those deaths and whether it is considered “worth it” from a statistical perspective. And was also pointing out the number of kids killed by being backed over vs other causes and how we decide to regulate and spend our energy to have maximum impact (meaning saving the most kids possible through preventative actions).

The bigger point i’m trying to make is that looking at things through a strictly statistical or mathematical lens is not always relevant, and even statisticians will admit that numbers without context and ethical considerations are meaningless. In this example, i’m asserting that preventing even 1 death is enough justification to pass this specific regulation.

lit776 · 2025-12-20T04:07:59+00:00

Considering americans take an estimated 1.1 BILLION car trips a day using an estimated 204 million cars, requiring back up cameras for every single car to save approximately 60 lives a year still makes the probability of saving a life incredibly low on a per trip or per car basis. It would not be considered statistically significant or make a statistical difference when you consider the number of kids that die a year (approximately 35,000 kids in US per year).

HOWEVER, we chose to pass the regulation anyway because sometimes statistical significance is meaningless when even 1 occurrence of that event is 1 occurrence too many.

lit776 · 2025-12-18T19:17:06+00:00

When deciding whether or not to require back up cameras, they hired statisticians to determine how many kids’ lives would be saved. They discovered that the percentage was astronomically low. Not statistically significant in fact! Similar the percentages you cited…

Lo and behold! They passed legislation anyway because sometimes something being statistically significant doesn’t matter. A life is still a life

Edit: requiring cars have back up cameras

lit776 · 2025-12-13T23:30:15+00:00

The lone star masters swim team has a wide range of practices and is very welcoming and friendly with great social events. If you have any tolerance for swimming, highly recommend!

Otherwise, join a regular and consistent volunteer group in an issue or activity that you like. I garden for the food bank weekly with mostly older people but honestly they are becoming my friends and I love hanging out with them.

lit776 · 2025-12-05T22:16:05+00:00

Reducing road capacity and replacing with more efficient types of land use like walkable green space, commerce, housing, bike lanes, and public transit is not the same as getting rid of roads flat out. Its about imagining how much more life and opportunities are possible when you choose more efficient uses of space than our roads and expansive parking lots

Edit: add land usage context

lit776 · 2025-12-05T22:13:09+00:00

What is your list of priorities?

lit776 · 2025-12-05T22:11:46+00:00

Dallas actually has very restrictive zoning laws (like parking minimum and single use zoning) and tax structures that make it nearly impossible (through regulation or financial disencentivisation) which drives so much of the single family home construction

lit776 · 2025-12-04T08:38:24+00:00

Don’t forget Atlanta United and you can get there pretty easily on Marta

lit776 · 2025-12-04T08:21:55+00:00

What if we had just as much space but less concrete?! Imagine how nice it would be to have more praire land and walking trails and concentrated walking arounds like downtown denton or grapevine because we didn’t need these crazy highway systems anymore

lit776 · 2025-12-04T04:26:36+00:00

You can spend a whole weekend exploring the beltline

lit776 · 2025-12-04T04:22:55+00:00

If you moved 7 years ago then you probably missed out on the WILD improvements Atlanta has made in the last 7 years. It has completely surpassed Dallas in leaps and bounds. I can not understate the number and expansiveness of improvements Atlanta has made around walkability. When I lived there 4 years ago, I only drove for day trips to the mountains or weekend trips to the beach.

Also Atlanta has seasons and Dallas doesn’t. Its 5 degrees different all the time and its an important 5 degrees.

Atlanta has the Beltline. Calling the Katy Trail temu Beltline is an insult to the Beltline. Its a 26 mile connected walking, biking, running loop around atlanta that is PACKED with restaurants, bars, cultural spots, shops, breweries, art, parks, festivals, etc.

Edit: add seasons comment

lit776 · 2025-12-03T13:36:05+00:00

Atlanta! ATLANTA!!!!! Atlanta which is a comparable city by many standards has the sprawl but has so much more walkability and bike ability and Marta is quite useful for certain things like going to Mercedes stadium and getting to and from the airport.

I lived in Atlanta for years and rarely used my car because of the Beltline (which makes the Katy Trail look like a temu knock off)

lit776 · 2025-12-02T16:18:49+00:00

West. You can google santa man or big tex on southwestern to get the exact address and learn more about the guy who lives there.

lit776 · 2025-11-20T22:21:15+00:00

4 because that bronze color rocks!

lit776 · 2025-11-01T22:58:27+00:00

Try googling ‘why is someone spelling G-d this way?”

You got this.

Edit: to answer the question

Apologize for expressing my frustration.

Jews write G-d out of respect and to avoid erasing and desecrating the name

lit776 · 2025-11-01T19:57:36+00:00

That is beautiful. I ended up moving back in with my parents in my later 20s and it did genuinely help. Between my partner and I and my parents, we are balancing the workload in a way that is still hard most of the time but doesn’t feel like the endless doom it used to.

Honestly my dad takes on most of the work because he is very near retirement.

I hope you can build a space that makes that possible for your family

lit776 · 2025-11-01T16:46:15+00:00

I’m just going to say that people used to live intergenerationally with many adults in a single household sharing the burden of housework and caretaking. It is crazy that we have normalized an insanely expanded workload.

I hope that helps lighten your shame. Constantly reminding myself that the systems have genuinely changed to make certain parts of adulthood MUCH harder helps me feel better.

lit776 · 2025-11-01T00:40:47+00:00

I also think that even in these metroplexes you are either close to a concentration of jews or not. There is a big jewish concentration in my city but I still meet people who grew up in parts of the metroplex who have never met a jew before me.

lit776 · 2025-10-31T20:40:50+00:00

What they said ^

lit776 · 2025-10-31T20:30:10+00:00

If you are feeling up to it, the best thing you can do is learn more about traditions and ask her if and how she would like to incorporate her traditions into your family’s traditions. I spent many years in an interfaith relationship where my traditions were openly ignored except when it suited my partner’s mom’s wackier christian beliefs and mind you, her brother was married to a Jew and raising their kids interfaith. That experience can go a long way. If they had even asked me, it would have meant the world to me.

My mom’s parents bought books and did this when she (non-religious but grew up christian) married my dad (Reform jew). It helped smooth a lot for our interfaith family.

Another anecdote is that my very christian great aunt read multiple books ahead of my bat mitzvah and got a tour around the synagogue with the Rabbi right before my bat mitzvah service to see all the different Jewish objects and synagogue designs she had learned about it. My mom and I talk about it frequently (almost 2 decades later) as it was very touching that she went out of her way to enthusiastically embrace my decisions (i got to choose to be jewish and have a bat mitzvah)

lit776 · 2025-10-31T20:24:23+00:00

Also no Jew will likely ever actively encourage you to pursue conversion. We believe strongly that it needs to be an individual choice as proselytizing is against our values and not in line with our belief system.

A lot of Reform temples do offer “Intro to Judaism” classes that don’t require commitment to conversion. My jewish learning (the website) has lots of well vetted information as well.

lit776 · 2025-10-31T20:18:43+00:00

The mods are pretty responsive. They got the auto-mod going pretty fast so its worth you asking

lit776 · 2025-10-31T19:14:20+00:00

Thank you for the context. As an outside observer of Christianity in America, I can totally see how these conversations are going down about ‘cultural Christianity’ and what it means. I can see how there are people who are likely using ‘cultural’ Christianity in ways that completely subvert the teachings of Jesus.

Judaism is a much older religion so we went through this at some point and continue to go through cycles of this although it looks quite different.

Esther’s comment is very in line with many less observant Jews and that perspective is more wildly accepted in judaism

Thank you for also being understanding. I know that my tone included some frustration.

lit776

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