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In reply to the discussion: Is there an effort to take over the Democratic Party by someone outside of our Party? [View all]Samantha
(9,314 posts)restrictions. They are, after all, politicians, not doctors. Some of these restrictions are literally deadly. I think all of these decisions properly belong to the woman and her husband (or significant other) and the doctor. That is it.
It might surprise you to learn when I arrived at this decision. As a child, I lived in a red state (Tennessee). My mother had heart problems and became pregnant with twins. The doctor told her carrying the pregnancy to term could easily kill her by putting too much strain on her already weakened heart. She told the doctor she could never abort her child, she would take the risk. Months later she delivered my twin brothers and made it through the pregnancy and childbirth. She did pass away two years later from her damaged heart problems.
I learned all this when I was 19 (as opposed to 6 when it occurred) from my aunt. The fact that a physician in the state of Tennessee in 1952 advised a woman to terminate a pregnancy was mind-boggling to me. But suddenly I realized this is exactly why these decisions belong to the woman, because the consequences can be so extreme. And politics has zero to do with it.
Sam