This whole situation just makes me so fucking irate and it breaks my heart as well. In the US, there are no other circumstances where a person can be forced to relinquish their body autonomy, even to save a life, even the life of a child. You can't force someone to give blood or bone marrow, and you have to have written permission to harvest organs from a dead body - but a live woman pregnant with a potential person has no such rights. WTF?

I have a divorced friend who is 35. She has never wanted children and has declared she will never marry again, but she can't get her tubes tied because some man in her future might want her to have children. Exactly what century are we in anyhow?

Somewhat ironically, Mexico, the world's largest Catholic country has recently completely decriminalized abortion with the Supreme Court there unanimously agreeing that it was unconstitutional to make it illegal.

I didn't know that about the Genesis passage about first breath. Just goes to show how much hypocrisy is really going on here. Thank you for writing this. We are moving into a new dark age.