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To combine your analogy with the original one:
Say your sister had a chronic condition and required frequent blood transfusions of your extremely rare blood type. Without your donations she is almost certain to die. Is it OK for the government to force you to donate?
What if you agree to donate, but change your mind later? Maybe you have a falling out, or it’s negatively affecting your health, or it’s just consuming so much of your time and energy that you want to stop? Should that be illegal? Should the government throw you in jail and call you a murderer because you had the misfortune to allow someone to depend on you?
What if you didn’t even mean to donate to her that first time, you just agreed to get tested to see if you were a match? You were hoping it would be incompatible, because you really had no intention of sacrificing yourself like that, but you wanted to keep her love? Should the government force you to donate if you did turn out to be a match? Plenty of people who seek abortions never intended to become pregnant.