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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hit home for me too, OP. When I had my last kid, I had my tubes removed for this very reason. I have plenty of fertile years left, and I just couldn’t chance an oopsie pregnancy given the state of things.

As someone whose family members are going to need living organ donations, though, I really do look forward to the legal possibilities of a post-Roe world. If the state can force a woman to donate her heart, uterus and kidneys for 9 months to save a life, it can also force some pro-lifer to donate an O-Neg kidney or at least their blood to save lives. And if children and fetuses are now public goods, that’s all the ground we need to start rescuing children from their religious wacknut parents. If the Constitution doesn’t expressly provide a right to decide your own family, it certainly doesn’t provide a right to homeschool.

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How is forcing you to not kill a life (with kidneys and heart and brain) the same as forcing you to remove one of your kidneys? I’m pro choice (up to a certain point) but this makes no sense. 
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It’s giving up part of your body, perhaps against your will, for the benefit of another.[/quote]

What part are you giving up in the fetus in womb scenario? [/quote]

You've clearly never gestated a baby. My body was forever wrecked because of my pregnancies. Took them on willingly, but came away with the firm belief that no person should be forced to do that against their will.[/quote]

There are also real life consequences. I had severe pre-eclampsia with my second pregnancy. I was put on blood pressure medication at 16 weeks. It barely did any good. I was overseas at that time and my doctor didn't seem to think it was a problem. Once I returned to the states pretty much all he!! broke loose. I ended up hospitalized at the end of 29 weeks and remained in the ante-natal ward until and emergency c-section at about the second I hit 32 weeks.

As we talk about restricting abortion access I wonder what would have happened if I started to crater health-wise at 18 weeks or 23 weeks when the baby was unlikely to survive. I mean, I don't like to think about not having my daughter, but when you see your ante-natal nurse in the grocery store a couple of months after the delivery and she grabs your hand and says, "Baby girl, you were so sick. It is such a blessing to see you," you kind of think about that $H!t. Should my older child have been left motherless? Should I not at least get a say in how my body is to be used?

Prior to about 1850 one in three women died in childbirth or from complications of childbirth. There are and will be consequences.[/quote]

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