Thread by @whyangelinawhy

I literally just got this flier after getting home from my walk. It’s an anti-choice PAC pretending to be a “both sides of abortion” group of that fucking LIES about the reality of late term abortion. I normally don’t do this, but I beg you to retweet that this is NONSENSE

This is a new fucking weird tactic that anti-choice groups do, where they pretend to care about women who get abortions in the first trimester and create this false narrative that even THOSE sinners would be opposed to late-term abortion

I had a pregnancy where I was told that there was a 60% chance my baby would die or not even have the most basic sense of life after she was born. She is a healthy toddler now.

I live in a state where abortion is legal up to 20 weeks. I didn’t even know we’d be even allowed to believe she’d be alive in any sense until THAT point.

Late term abortions are an unfortunate necessity. Not unfortunate in the “BUT TEH BABY!!” line, but in the sense where parents in my position want a baby and have to prepare for the WORST news

The right’s conversation around late term abortion is nothing but abstract cruelty. I don’t judge families who have the same sentences wanting to go forwards or backwards.

But only medical intervention with late term abortion prevents suffering and multiple deaths. That is just how it is.

I haven’t shared this publicly because people love to shit on any woman or couple that has to have this conversation.

This is to say nothing of people who get pregnant that don’t want to be. I’ll be clear and say I don’t give a fuck if you want an abortion because you just can’t or don’t want a baby. But pro-life groups are specifically targeting late term abortions

And I can tell you that it is the worst decision I have ever faced I. My fucking life by a mile. I sat for weeks being pregnant, wondering if I would have to say goodbye to my daughter in a way that didn’t prolong her suffering.

And before people say “ooo but imagine if you had aborted a healthy baby”, it is by the grace of smart, compassionate doctors that I was able to make an informed decision about my pregnancy at 20 weeks.

I have had friends that have lost their children at 39 weeks. Even at 20 weeks, I was devastated by the possibility my child was gone.

Outside of extenuating circumstances, nobody gets to 20 weeks thinking about an abortion without being severely devastated by the idea.