Very_Bad_Janet

Very_Bad_Janet, 7 months ago

I have to admit that's a nice stick. I thought he was joking but it's actually perfect. Like, platonic ideal of a stick.

Very_Bad_Janet, 7 months ago

Are you married and do you have any children together? Do you consider her or yourself traditional in relationships (however you define traditional)?

Very_Bad_Janet, 7 months ago

I asked because I believe marriage and children can add pressures to a relationship, and may test right wing beliefs.

For example: What if your wife changed her mind about being a SAHM and wanted to continue working after having a child? How would you both handle household chores and parenting duties?

More examples: If your wife became pregnant but it was an ectopic pregnancy, would you support her having an abortion? Would you support an abortion if the baby was diagnosed with anencephaly while still in the womb?

Would you use IVF if you had trouble conceiving? Would you use birth control to plan the size of your family?

It's easy to see eye to eye about hypothetical situations but maybe less easy when it's real life.

Very_Bad_Janet, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

An ectopic pregnancy would risk her life and her future fertility. Babies with anencephaly do not survive for long after birth, being stillborn (around 75% of them) or dying within hours or days; this pregnancy wouldn't risk the mother's life, though, but would be traumatic.

Without googling the definition of ectopic, we’d likely abort anything that put her at significant risk, or in the case of a major defect that would ruin all three of our lives.

States with very strict abortion laws or where abortion is illegal would prevent your wife from having an abortion in the your and my scenarios. She might be forced to delay the abortion until she ruptured in the ectopic scenario, or be forced to give birth to a dead baby or.one who died in a few hours. There are other dangerous scenarios when an abortion would be the humane option. This is something to keep in mind when voting or supporting candidates. ETA: I didn't mean this to sound like a lecture. I was just pointing this all out because you actually don't sound ring wing based on how you described your beliefs.