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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The left has been telling young women for years that The Handmaid’s Tale is the Republican master plan. The U.S. is teetering on the brink of becoming a Christian nationalist dystopia in which women will be turned into forced breeders. A lot of them seem to believe this. After all, the message is reinforced every time they turn on MSNBC, get their other news from TikTok, and attend a San Francisco gay pride parade.
Fewer kids with a crazy liberal raising them?
Sounds like a plan.
Total, ignorant nitwits who are destroying their own reproductive options, since contraception is now and will remain entirely available. However, after one of these nitwits has her tubes removed she no longer has the option of conception. By the way a “nit” Is a louse egg.
I'll do better than just guess, I will put big money on it that these women are repeat aborters. Being in and out of hospitals is no big deal to them (in addition to getting rid of their offspring).
I mean, what rational person would have a life-altering operation done on themselves just because a person is elected President?
I refuse to let someone take away my “reproductive rights” so I’ll just eliminate my reproductive ability.
Lol. Probably the ones we wouldn’t want reproducing anyway.
Planned Abortionhood will just switch to snipping men’s Vas Deferenses.
I thought they were going to not have sex anymore. Then why bother.
Kind of like cutting off your nose to spite your face. There are many choices that aren’t nearly as drastic as sterilization or abortion if they don’t want to have babies.
Each of us is to work out our salvation with fear and trembling.
As sad as it is, I have little remorse for them. I have my own sins to bear and for which I must seek forgiveness.
I have been looking for a sweater just like that. Can’t find one. I also had a velvet ball cap just like that, black velvet with a snowflake, got it at Monarch Ski Lodge. It got ripped off also at Monarch Ski Lodge along with some RayBans.
Look at the bright side-more sex available due to their inability to get pregnant. Add to that the prospect of tattoo parlors getting more business. So wha’ does it all mean?
We’re all getting laid!
Only 5?
Indeed.
Nope.
That’s correct.
A choice to be made. See reply 50.
Go for it 🤣🔥❤️
The uglies who constantly scream “GENOCIDE” are self genociding! 🤪
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