Currently holding my newborn as I type this. Up until a few months ago, this little human being was a frozen embryo.

Both of my children were IVF babies, and I’m about as left leaning as they come.

Also, we’re not wealthy by any stretch. We ended up participating in a clinical trial that provided free IVF therapy (minus some misc costs).

I absolutely feel sorry for our fellow American citizens who are going through this horror, regardless of their political affiliation. Politicians are dealing in lives and livelihoods as if we average citizens mean nothing to them (spoiler alert, we don’t).

You should look into expanding your worldview.

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I keep saying this about politicians in general.

For example, do we really think that Republicans don’t believe in climate change? Their uneducated electorate, maybe, but a bunch of ivy league educated lawyers sitting in DC? They know. They just prioritize profitability over truth, and we’re all left to pick up the pieces.

We in the US have the illusion of democracy, a non-representative government that purports itself to be ‘for the people’. It keeps up the illusion just enough to maintain its own existence.