This is a bit too close to the Mississippi Governor’s argument that pregnancy from rape is such a small number overall the state really doesn’t need to account for it in banning abortion.An excellent graphic shows the benefits of #vaping to adult smokers and the much smaller threat to teens. Thank you, Danielle. https://t.co/ldAKO2ne9P
— MarcGunther (@MarcGunther) July 4, 2022
So here’s a thought experiment. A young girl with an undiagnosed blood clotting condition, a rare one no one would look for until she had a problem, like internal blood clots. When she does and the condition is diagnosed, she has to be careful about pregnancy, because it could literally kill her.
Now imagine that same young girl is pregnant, before the diagnosis. It might be diagnosed during pre-natal care, but it isn’t yet, and she wants an abortion. Is the mother’s health in danger? Yes. Does anyone know that? No. Does that ignorance matter? Yes.
But it’s a rare condition, a one-in-a-million chance it even occurs, a real winning of the genetic lottery. Too obscure to legislate for?
Tell that to the young woman. Tell it to her parents; her friends, her family. Tell them she’s not worth accounting for, even though simply leaving abortion safe, legal, regulated and available, would provide for her situation and so many others you can’t imagine or expect to happen. Tell her an idea matters much more than her health does; that it matters more than she does.
Just don’t do it near her father. He’s liable to swing on you.
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