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Mary Anne — (archived)

Me too. It's an emotional and hormonal response, though.

You can't base the law generally on how people feel under stress. Otherwise we would bring back stoning of murderers by the relatives of the victims.

And no one forces a woman mourning a miscarriage to continue being pregnant against her will. It's the loss of a hope, a dream, an expectation. Sometimes we name them. Sometimes we don't.

For government to interfere -- at a medical level, no less -- in the private life of a human being, even if she is a woman (this is the subtext here for me: men don't have this problem), there has to be the compelling interest of the welfare of another citizen. Potential citizens aren't actual enough yet to overrule the interests and the welfare of the citizens who are already here.

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