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All of this is very true. Also without getting into the nuances illegalizing abortion means forcing women to come to full-term pregnancies, which in my opinion is worse than giving women a choice to terminate what is in their body, and which is dependent on her body.

There are many things men don't know. What I find interesting is that many men who witness childbirth of their own children come to different conclusions. When I saw my wife give birth as go though a pregnancy and knew the details more intimately I found it odd and not right that a woman would be forced to come to a full-term pregnancy. What I saw was a pregnancy in good circumstances.

Other men have a different reactions, but that was one of my thoughts.

The demographics of pro-choice and pro-life are interesting. The further removed from actually getting pregnant or getting someone pregnant the more one is pro-life. People who can get pregnant or might get someone pregnant are more likely to be pro-choice.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/244709/pro-choice-pro-life-2018-demographic-tables.aspx

Interesting. Yes there are a lot men don't know. A lot men should know about women's reproductive health and well-being.

On another note. I am really sorry you had to deal with a miscarriage. This was also something I was not aware was so common until relatively later in life.

I think I can safely say as a father and husband I that men kind of have the "easy mode" a lot of times biologically and because of this fail to take into account...a lot.

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I’m so sorry for your loss, Sally. How terrible for you! No pro-life person should be against care for women experiencing miscarriages. If the state laws conflict with this, they should be changed!

If it’s care for the mother that does not involve the direct and intentional killing of a child, that’s not really an abortion, especially if the child has already died.

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