Maybe you haven’t had terrible complications in pregnancy. I had an abortion in the second trimester because my pregnancy was not viable, baby had defects, was not growing and that meant it wouldn’t survive to delivery. The abortion wasn’t the tragedy. The tragedy is how difficult it is to have a successful pregnancy with our very hig…
Maybe you haven’t had terrible complications in pregnancy. I had an abortion in the second trimester because my pregnancy was not viable, baby had defects, was not growing and that meant it wouldn’t survive to delivery. The abortion wasn’t the tragedy. The tragedy is how difficult it is to have a successful pregnancy with our very high maternal mortality among western nations and how expensive it is. I cannot imagine anyone suggesting we compound that trauma with government officials adjudicating a medical procedure that should be safe and legal. Who are you to think you have the right to make me or anyone else property of the state?
I apologize for coming across that way. With the Dobbs decision, Ohio has started with the 6 week ban on abortion which is a ridiculous amount of time for a woman to both know she is pregnant and make a decision about abortion and then schedule it. I was brainstorming compromise, wondering what the left would have to give up in order to possibly get a national right to abortion up to x weeks. I don't truly want women to have to jump through hoops, explain themselves, etc. Decisions like you made are hard enough without my opinion or red tape, I apologize.
No need to apologize. I appreciate your thoughtful and caring response. So many are so callous in this debate. It goes to show that no one knows enough about each person’s experience nor do we have an agreement on what is right or wrong in each circumstance. All the more reason to leave it to a woman and her doctor.
It’s so terrible. I haven’t wanted to talk about it as it happened a few years ago and I found a way to tuck it away. But everything happening now and how we talk about it is so callous and painful. I hope at the end of the day we can get to a place in this country where we recognize every person has dignity, basic human rights and self-determination.
Maybe you haven’t had terrible complications in pregnancy. I had an abortion in the second trimester because my pregnancy was not viable, baby had defects, was not growing and that meant it wouldn’t survive to delivery. The abortion wasn’t the tragedy. The tragedy is how difficult it is to have a successful pregnancy with our very high maternal mortality among western nations and how expensive it is. I cannot imagine anyone suggesting we compound that trauma with government officials adjudicating a medical procedure that should be safe and legal. Who are you to think you have the right to make me or anyone else property of the state?
I apologize for coming across that way. With the Dobbs decision, Ohio has started with the 6 week ban on abortion which is a ridiculous amount of time for a woman to both know she is pregnant and make a decision about abortion and then schedule it. I was brainstorming compromise, wondering what the left would have to give up in order to possibly get a national right to abortion up to x weeks. I don't truly want women to have to jump through hoops, explain themselves, etc. Decisions like you made are hard enough without my opinion or red tape, I apologize.
No need to apologize. I appreciate your thoughtful and caring response. So many are so callous in this debate. It goes to show that no one knows enough about each person’s experience nor do we have an agreement on what is right or wrong in each circumstance. All the more reason to leave it to a woman and her doctor.
It’s so terrible. I haven’t wanted to talk about it as it happened a few years ago and I found a way to tuck it away. But everything happening now and how we talk about it is so callous and painful. I hope at the end of the day we can get to a place in this country where we recognize every person has dignity, basic human rights and self-determination.