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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]guy here - no kids. as i get older i get more pro-life.[/b]

BUT i also realize this is not my battle and I work in progressive dem politics. So i kind of uncomfortably sit silent.

BUT, i would never voice my increasingly pro-life attitudes unless we have an extremely rich safety net and very robust adoption mechanism.

If I was a politician with a seat that I could defend comfortably, I would vote for ban after 20 weeks unless for the normal exceptions.

Don't hate me ladies![/quote]

So you don't have children and can not get pregnant or give birth, so you don't really have any understanding of the permanent toll pregnancy and birth can take on your body. I would continue to sit silently, but listen and learn. Even "easy" pregnancies and births can leave lasting damage.[/quote]

Can you see why it's hard not to hate you?

You have no idea what it's like to have pre-eclampsia. You have no idea how scary bed rest is or placental abruption is or what a third degree tear feels like. You don't know how the moment that your nuchal translucency comes up with a "vague" result requiring more tests. To face rare disorders like Thalassemia? Downs syndrome? Tay Sachs? Chromosomal abnormalities? You don't even know what it's like to be a prospective father watching this go on.

You've never lost a baby at 20 weeks, as some of us on this board have, only to be told "You can try again soon, honey" by a well meaning E.R. nurse.

Yet, you want to vote for a ban after 20 weeks?

If you feel so strongly about babies, have one. If you can't because of various reasons, you will find sympathy and empathy all over this board. If you want to hear heart wrenching stories, look on the threads about people facing difficulties trying to conceive and maintain pregnancies, but the irony is that reproductive freedom allowed growth of reproductive technologies to allow more people to have children through IVF and egg harvesting.

By limiting reproductive choices to terminate pregnancies, "pro-life" groups often opt to limit reproductive choices to create them, especially for LGBT families and singles. Who knows? In a couple of years, you may meet the right man, woman or transgender person for your life and you may want to use some new technologies (like three party conception which right now is mostly speculative) to add to your family.

Protecting the right to choose protects your right to choose too.

Keep an open mind.[/quote]

Did you mean to quote the guy I quoted? Because you and I are saying the same thing.[/quote]

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