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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mother of two young daughters. It terrifies me that they might not have choices in their teens if they were to get pregnant. I used to not understand why anyone had 2nd or 3rd trimester abortions. I thought teen girls / women should make that decision when they learned they were pregnant. Then I watched women around me go through various things. For instance, my cousin learned at 20 weeks that her fetus hadn’t grown lungs and some other friends have learned similar information at 20 week scans. I learned around 20 weeks that I carried a few potentially devastating genetic mutations - and didn’t learn until after 23 weeks that my husband didn’t carry them. (We didn’t choose an amniocentesis because the risk of miscarriage was similar to the risk that he would carry the mutations.) I then hemorrhaged having my first and was being monitored for emergency surgery and / or transfusions. They’d prepped an OR in case they couldn’t get the bleeding to stop.

I can immediately think of 5 women I personally know who terminated pregnancies when they found out because they didn’t want to be pregnant.  And I know one person who carried a baby she knew would die (the baby lived 5.5 weeks) and one friend moved so her baby would be born at a hospital capable of handling a severe birth defect. After all the surgeries, the portion of the medical bill she was responsible for (with federal insurance) was just shy of $2 million.   So I think delivering or not is a serious choice and should be treated as such. [/quote]

All PP's examples are very valid.  I posted the VA failed legislation whch was odd because it went way beyond such instances.  That was why Trans's proposed legislation was so controversial.  I believe even Lt Gov Fairfax said at the time it was poorly crafted legislation. Sen Kaine was not in favor of the Tran bill.[/quote]

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