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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Craziness!
Excellent news!
We do not need weirdos producing and raising more weirdos...
Self-cleaning gene pool.
If your tubes are tied or removed you cannot reproduce and so you have no reproductive rights.
Can you say skank?
takes “the stupid” out of the gene pool, go for it.
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And who was president when your so called reproductive rights in Texas were taken away from you?
Yeah. Joe Biden.
Sterilize yourself!
OK
Cougars are spaying themselves. Will the male dems become actual capons?
Stay tuned
This is surely the Bee. I’m going to fight Donald Trump sterilizing me by getting sterlized before Donald Trump does it.
Good this is win win less abortions and commies are no longer breeding this is awesome thank you commies great news indeed
Overreacting Election Deniers
When they start having to spend Thanksgiving and Christmas alone they will regret their decision.
voting for PDJT turns out to have been a real Two-For
My guess is that these women are repeat aborters. It’s simply a form of birth control for them. Have lots of sex. Get pregnant. Have an abortion. Repeat, repeat, repeat.
Maybe having an operation is a good decision for them, given their lifestyle. Life is full of choices, and they are making their choice. There is no good reason for them to blame anyone else.
Nope straight up Darwin Award.
They are removing themsevles from the genepool
Madness.
Stark, raving, gibbering madness.
Ya know, sweetie-pie, if you don't go "garden-tooling" around all the time, you won't have this problem.
Voluntarily eliminating the ability to reproduce in order to preserve her reproductive rights? Can there be any doubt of mental illness here?
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