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In reply to the discussion: "Six weeks pregnant" does NOT mean, six weeks after you find out you're pregnant [View all]Texin
(2,603 posts)pregnancy within a few days of having sex or rape, as the case may be, to be able do something about it if they don't wish to bear a child.
I'm past this now, but if I had had to deal with the draconian abortion bans back in the pre-Roe v. Wade era, I seriously would have considered whether to be sterilized or not. And knowing what I do now, and the very real economic hit an unwanted/unplanned pregnancy and birth is, especially for an unmarried woman, I would do whatever I had to to get sterilized.
Frankly, women cannot depend on birth control pills, condoms, etc. -- moreover, a woman can't depend on legislatures from banning birth control too.
I hope the men who have pushed for this never get to have sex with a female a long, long, dry desert of a future. And if they resort to rape, I hope there are enough women who will shoot them with those unlicensed guns they'll have free and legally-supported permission to have now.