10/26/2024
Kamala's excellent speech tonight highlighted the multifaceted injustices against women's healthcare and abortion. I know from my experience as an ObGyn doctor that it's effective to to your audience to use analogies when talking about uncomfortable, unfamiliar, and complicated topics.
Therefore I'm surprised that the pro-freedom (ie Democratic) party has not made the following analogy regarding states like Texas wanting to prosecute persons who leave the state to seek goods & services like management of failed pregnancy, which are outlawed locally..... (see below to understand why I am referring to abortion services this way).
The analogy is this: Will those states seek to prosecute people who live in dry counties (i.e. where alcohol cannot be sold) that cross state or other political boundary lines to purchase alcohol? Will they seek to get alcohol purchase-records from those out-of-state stores in order to prosecute those people once they return?
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About "abortion services": As a male ObGyn, I can tell you (news flash...)  that boys and men grow up in an incredible state of ignorance about how women's bodies work, but (more importantly) what it means to have the ability to reproduce, and the incredible high stakes that are involved in being the gender with 99% of the responsibility (read: burden)for reproduction for the human race.
So of course, it can't be done, but I would dare any of you men to spend 60 days in the body of a reproductive-age female. You will want to commit su***de, given the simplistic biological privilege you live with as a male. Women, quite frankly, are TOUGH. In fact, they ROCK.
Remember (or probably you don't, but her girlfriends do ......) those girls in junior high and high school who .... for some reason were absent from school for a few days in a row from school, from time to time..... say, monthly? You get the picture. With fertility comes a huge price. BTW, this topic is what I've done for a living for several decades.
The procedure to manage a failed (dead but retained) pregnancy which puts the woman at risk for sepsis, is the exact same procedure as for terminating a living and potentially viable pregnancy ("viable" pregnancy means one that is at least 23- 24 weeks, meaning the premature baby could possibly survive with maximal life-saving support given at that point). At any rate, I'm not a politician, but both the life-saving "D&C" procedure for a failed pregnancy and a D&C for abortion of a living pregnancy are the same. So those male politicians in the Trump-abortion-ban states have to make a blanket law to block the procedure from being done, no matter what the indication is for it. ...... Or do they?
BTW: No person who has not at one point in their life been capable of bearing a child personally should be allowed to interfere with abortion rights. Yes, that means All men. 
It is said that "with rights come responsibility......" (cliché but true). But in this case, with reproductive responsibility should come the RIGHTS to manage that function.
Have a good next 11 days, my friends.
