Reply #262: Nope. Not the same thing.

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And I'm a pro-choice woman. I'll take pregnancy over cancer every single time, even the highly treatable cancers. And I had life threatening complications with my second one. I nearly stroked out because my blood pressure got so high right after I had my second one. So, I'm personally intimate with the dangers of a pregnancy gone wrong. If, somehow, I was told I had to either get pregnant or get cancer, I wouldn't even have to think about it. Pregnancy itself is not a death sentence, and even when the deadly complications arrive, it isn't an absolute death sentence, as my living and breathing right now can attest. Cancer, if left untreated, almost always is. That's why it's an entirely different thing to let a girl decide whether to continue a pregnancy, and not allow a child to make a decision that seals his fate and he dies. Two separate issues.

Doctors can have incorrect opinions, also. It's a virtual certainty that he'll die without it, and very likely that he'll live with it. That's enough to warrant the state stepping in, with other doctors backing that decision. They've done it before, thankfully. They will likely do it again. Hopefully, this horrible decision of overturning the ruling is an aberration.