Your being able to do whatever you want to your body gives me a father who had emphysema his entire life and lung cancer. It’s given me family members with diabetes who never needed to suffer like that, but hey, it’s their body, right? And I had to suffer alongside of them because of that. My family members had to suffer along side of them because of that. Our healthcare system had to bear the weight of their lifestyle choices.

I was almost aborted as part of a teenage pregnancy. I’m still pro choice. If somebody gets pregnant and doesn’t want the child, that’s a horrible horrible decision to have to make. We’ve witnessed Cumol have to go through that on this very site. But it’s a personal choice, it could strain family relationships and it will certainly alter a person for life. It’s a lifelong choice that impacts them for life, not necessarily those around them. If you smoke, if you treat your body poorly, that impacts you AND those around you. There’s my line of difference. There’s what I’ve had to live through.