Posted on 11/30/2024 12:52:19 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
It's not a procedure you'd expect a 28-year-old to be planning. But for Lydia Echols from Texas, having her fallopian tubes removed is the price she's willing to pay to ensure her reproductive rights.
Newsweek spoke to five women who have either undergone sterilization procedures or plan to in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump's victory on November 5. They all expressed fear their reproductive choices will be taken from them under Trump's administration.
"If I am to be denied any rights in the next four (or more) years, I will not give them up without a fight," Echols said.
Newsweek has contacted Trump's transition team, via email, for comment.
Last week, a 39-year-old from Washington state, who did not want to be named, underwent a bilateral salpingectomy, in which her fallopian tubes were removed.
"I am not happy that I felt forced into a surgery I did not want to alter my body, I feel like the election tied my hands and forced me to be sterilized—that is horrible," she told Newsweek.
The issue of abortion and reproductive rights was a major one in this year's election. Trump, who took credit for the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022, removing the constitutional right to an abortion in the country, has repeatedly said that his position is to let the states decide their own abortion laws.
He has also said he would veto a national abortion ban, writing on Truth Social in October: "I would not support a federal abortion ban, under any circumstances, and would, in fact, veto it, because it is up to the states to decide based on the will of their voters (the will of the people!)"
But this has not quelled the fears of multiple women who, on top of being worried about...
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Sad. But most importantly, they won’t be guilty of murdering their own unborn children.
For crying out loud. Perhaps for the best so they don’t pass on their crappy genes.
Cats.
While most of us ridicule such reactions, deep down we are mortified (or at least I am) that people are so personally and spiritually devoid. I truly mourn for such lost souls who would reject motherhood and the amazing miracle gift of bringing a human being into this world. How did we even get here?
Good. They won’t be killing babies.
GOOD!
When they start having to spend Thanksgiving and Christmas alone they will regret their decision.
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Three cats and a box of wine will have to do.
Since I’ve been voting there have been two Clinton wins, two Obama wins and one Biden creative count. At no time did I feel the urge to modify my genitals. However if Hillary had won they might have frozen and fallen off on their own.
Wait. She's sterilizing herself to punish, I don't know, someone ... because Trump is president and abortion rights are now the decision of states? So prevent any pregnancies to protest Trump who you say is preventing you from aborting your baby. WTF?
The emotional tsunamis that clearly exist in these leftists' brains are making them crazy. How miserable these people must be.
Reported by Jordan King, young 85 IQ feminist buffoon of Newsweek.
Retroactive Darwinism! I fully approve of these wimmen taking their rotten genes out of the pool and going home to mommy. Which they will never be...
These are really, really stupid women. It’s probably for the best that they don’t pass that on.
How off would I be if I thought these women had *planned* to be sterilized, so they decided to use that in a rant against Trump?
They can now have all of the sex they want without repercussions...or fallopian tubes.
or, if they are allowed by the mother to live, metasticize and expand the "progressive" disease of Democrat/Communism into healthy parts of our Republic.
We are in a new historical era.
Christians constantly focus on material “poverty,” when in fact, we are materially better off than ever in history.
What we actually face is a real cultural spiritual poverty, and a individual meaning and mental health crisis.
So need to change cutting off your nose to spite your face, cut your tubes to spite your chance of having a baby.
>> a 39-year-old
BFD, and well passed her ideal pregnancy days
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