Regarding your post on "fatphobia in medicine" and why a doctor wouldn't allow someone clearly in risk of diabetes or heart failure to have children: he's doing his job, and he's doing it correctly. This isn't "fat phobia" or your warped perception of sexism, here. If you can't have a baby without endangering YOUR health, then you shouldn't be having a baby until you can be pregnant without putting yourself OR your child at risk. You think thinner women aren't at risk for similar complications?

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lesbomancer

Who are you to say who can or can’t have children? Guess what — EVERYONE has some risk of developing complications, and complications for fat people are incredibly overblown (like most health ‘information’ about fat folks). It’s riskier for older people to have children. Does that mean older people should be sterilized? Do you think fat people should be sterilized? Because people don’t need doctors to have babies. Doctors are there to assist in a healthy delivery, not to dictate whether patients can be parents.

And by the way, who the fuck made YOU dictator? Do you go around on the streets telling very fat or thin people that they shouldn’t “dare” get pregnant because your healthist ideology (which is about as factual as most ideologies) forbids it?

Fuck you. And don’t have children or come close to a situation where you can infect anyone else with your hatred. I’m much more fucking worried about people like YOU being parents than I am about a slight percentage increase in “risk” (which is a correlation you fucking shithead, not a prophecy) that very fat or very thin people have pregnancy complications.

-ArteToLife