26/06/2022
Roe Vs Wade being overturned.
This is my abortion experience. To humanize and give a face to the experience.
I was pregnant with a very wanted baby a few years back. Went for a check up, no heartbeat. We were devastated. We went from looking at baby clothes to having to research abortion pills. Not fun, do not recommend.
I was given the option, have a medication assisted abortion, have a DnC (aka a regular old abortion), or wait for labour to start, though this option was super dangerous because baby would start rotting inside me, and possibly cause sepsis and then death.
With no abortions allowed, guess which option would be available to me?
If you guessed:
Having my baby decompose inside me, with the constant fear of going septic/ICU/dying, you would be right.
It's not just about unwanted pregnancies, it's also about medically necessary abortions. In many US states, those are now banned.
This ruling will kill women. Women in situations like mine, women with ectopic pregnancies (100,000 per year in the US), women with high high risk pregnancies, women going through cancer treatment, etc...
Fun fact: Ireland finally updated their abortion law after a woman died in my exact situation in fu***ng 2012.
