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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsmaternity care surcharge 17K per year. first trimester abortion w/o insurance 1k.
the so-called "pro-life" pukes are almost literally forcing women to choose abortion over birth. amazing.
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maternity care surcharge 17K per year. first trimester abortion w/o insurance 1k. (Original Post)
niyad
Sep 2017
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I remember paying more as a young woman because "I could" get pregnant- yet no one would sterilize..
bettyellen
Sep 2017
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bettyellen
(47,209 posts)1. I remember paying more as a young woman because "I could" get pregnant- yet no one would sterilize..
me and it took years and a trip to PP to finally get an IUD. Most doctors didn't want to "possibly damage" my fertility even though I was going because I never ever wanted a baby. Fucking ridiculous, being treated like a child and forced to pay as if it takes one person to make a baby. Men should be paying equally. They cause the condition.
niyad
(130,445 posts)2. you are quite correct. I don't know if you are old enough to remember the "120 rule"--
doctors would only perform a sterilization if the woman's age, times the numbers of children she had, was greater than 120.
fucking male control of women's bodies. and they don't want to lose that control.
Turbineguy
(39,909 posts)3. Is that for
white women as well?
