Reply #83: hypertension, diabetes, varicose veins leading to blood clots leading to heart attacks and strokes. [View All]

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Those things also kill men at a high rate, not just women. I should know, I had hypertension, and I wasn't even 40 yet.

Women also get benefits from pregnancy, it's not like you're carrying something that gives nothing back.

Just from breast feeding:
* Less risk of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, and endometrial cancer.<10><14><58><59>
* A 2009 study indicated that lactation for at least 24 months is associated with a 23% lower risk of coronary heart disease.<60>
* Although the 2007 review for the AHRQ found "no relationship between a history of lactation and the risk of osteoporosis",<14> mothers who breastfeed longer than eight months benefit from bone re-mineralisation.<61>
* Breastfeeding diabetic mothers require less insulin.<62>
* Reduced risk of metabolic syndrome<63><64>
* Reduced risk of post-partum bleeding.<54>
* According to a Malmö University study published in 2009, women who breast fed for a longer duration have a lower risk for contracting rheumatoid arthritis than women who breast fed for a shorter duration or who had never breast fed.<65>

"Means around 5000 women died in the USA in 2005"

Which means your chances are .01%. I had a higher chance of dying young as a male.

I'm not saying it doesn't happen, just don't give me the victim attitude. We all have things that will kill males, we have things that will kill women. I really hate the attitude of "They're yours when they're bad, mine when they're good" I assume both people wanted children. So you didn't "GIVE them." you wanted them also.

Unless I'm wrong and she didn't give a shit about the kids