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Jeoffry Gordon, MD, MPH's avatar

Dearest Jessica, As a physician and a father of two girls, now women, I totally admire and am in awe of your up to date and comprehensive monitoring of the movement to disrespect women in the name of religion and protecting life.

BTW I especially admire your terse, blunt asides when recounting horrible policies or actions.

Today your column brought me to tears as I vicariously relived the horrible circumstances of your eclampsia during your pregnancy. OMG there is no worse torture that an expectant mom should have to go through. --- and now circumstances like yours are being made exponentially worse by Taliban politicians. I want to thank you, so, so much for sharing your personal trial with all of us. Thank God it all turned out well. My heart aches for what some moms in similar circumstances now must face.

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Terri Smith's avatar

Brilliant column! Nailed it! The forced birthers will always sacrifice the mother. No matter how slim of a chance the pregnancy has, they will force the mother to attempt it.

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