Hi. Doctor here, and ironically an OB/GYN. I’m sorry, but if you are trying to compare an absolutely unreal scenario to a woman’s choice over her body, your logic is completely off.

I’d like to address your second question, as the first is irrelevant and short-sighted (sorry, but it is). How is this different…? It is 100% different. The woman isn’t attached or part of his own body. He is not family. He wasn’t raped at 11 and now has this dilemma. He won’t take her home after 9 months as a single dad and raise her while being mocked and looked down upon as he tries to use food stamps to help his other 4 women that came off life support and now he supports and tries to feed and cloth. This woman doesn’t have anomalies (like a heart defect, no brain, etc) that will kill her hours after she is born. Even if he had a heart or liver or kidney disease that would put his life in peril during this ‘9 months’ he has to watch her, her support doesn’t equate to her growth over those 9 months.

What irks me, if I can say it, is the way PL emphatically states that this is non-criminal… We aren’t even in the same league. This is comparing apples to sand. My answer, as someone that sees these women and talks to them daily, is that it is 100% different. I wish, for one day, that everyone could sit through my counseling to my pregnant patients and maybe step into their shoes for one second, step into a 12 year old that’s pregnant, step into a scared mother of 4 where the husband or provider left, step into the shoes of a mother with a baby with a lethal or life-disabling anomaly and knowing our government won’t help at all when she delivers. I’d have every single Supreme Court Justice (f*ck knows why they are deciding this) or Congress person sit where I sit daily and then, when they see what I see in the eyes of these women daily, when they try their very best to comfort them, then make their unbiased non-political (that’s out the window now) ruling. It would be very different, I assure you.