What is the last political issue you changed your mind on?

You seem like the only person I've ever heard that gives at least some wiggle room for medical conditions for the mother. Obviously you would probably also include things like a genetic test revealing Tay Sachs or an extreme genetic mutation that would make sustaining life outside the womb impossible. Why force a baby to be born if it's going to die a painful life within weeks.

I'm very curious though where you stand on mental health. One example stands out a lot to me. I have my own child now and I developed pretty bad PPD that required lots of medicine to curb. I technically can go off medicine and carry a child safely again, but it could go really bad over the 9 months for me and my son. If I used all reasonable protection with my husband....should I still be considered eligible due to psychiatric conditions that do not limit my ability to safely physically carry a child but do add potentially unnecessary mental health consequences for an already alive baby?

What about cases on a similar level but different level? My husband works in state homes for the criminally insane and developmentally disabled. Every so often two residents manage to act on their human impulses and biology happens. Should they force that a very mentally disabled person to continue with the pregnancy, despite the cost to the state for prenatal care and potential for child to have similar lifelong needs. The woman is able to carry the baby without it being a danger to her health. But should she be told she has no other option but to do it? And on the states dollar?

Where does the line get drawn? I would mourn my lost child, but really only to a "that shouldn't have happened and it sucks that it did" degree. The woman in example two wouldn't likely mourn her child if she has a faulty concept of the difference between right and wrong and is required to live in assisted housing forever.

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