I used to sit on the board of an adoption agency.
Long story short, it came to pass that I helped two Thai conjoined twins come to the US. Yes, REAL Siamese Twins. They were separated at CHOP (yes, I know) and adopted by a doctor and nurse.
Just a day or two after separation, the surgeon came to Virginia to attend a fundraiser for post-operative care (I was the auctioneer!) and I got to button-hole him to ask a medical question about the kids. His reply was that he used the appendix to solve the problem in question (they were short a bladder) and then he leaned in close and whispered in my ear: “God makes spare parts.”
I tell this story because you are the owner of spare parts.
If you think taking someone else’s body autonomy away from them is fine “to save the life of a child,” then I want you to sign up TODAY for surgery.
You see, people are literally DYING for your spare parts. They need your extra kidney, your extra lung, your extra liver.
To be clear, I want every forced-birther to VOLUNTARILY donate body parts today, but I also want forced-birthers to support MANDATORY forced organ donation from the living.
Because why should only pregnant women lose body autonomy?
What? That’s outrageous?
Really? I can’t force you to give a kidney, or a liver, or a lung? Why not?
Why is YOUR body autonomy so special, and the real lives saved now of too little consequence?
How about blood and blood plasma? Can we force people to donate these in order to save a life?
If they refuse to have a needle put in their arm and a bag of life-giving whole blood siphoned off every month, can we JAIL them and fine them for failing to protect human life?
Why not? Let's get this legislation rolling TODAY.
Let's see Amy Coney Barrett, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, and Neil Gorsuch not only endorse this legislation, but volunteer to donate their organs TODAY.
And let’s see all those who would ban abortion already standing in that line.
All good points. Perhaps require men to get a vasectomy upon hitting puberty? Then they at least won't be able to create rape babies. They can always be reversed at much less trauma than what happens to a woman's body forced to give birth. I remember pre-Roe. I know two women who were forced to carry their rapists child. Neither the mothers or children fared well. One of them had been raped by her biological father at 12. Her parents forced her to carry to term, literally hid her in the house, then her mother raised her as her own birthed child. So yes, her sister was her mother and her bio father was her grandfather. She had horrible lifelong health issues, found out at 26 that she was an incest baby. This was in a populous, blue state, too. It happens everywhere and is MUCH more common than people want to think. This ruling is incredibly cruel. But then, the cruelty is the point. Always has been.
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