I don’t have words right now. This is a gut punch, a slap to the face.
To the girls and women who
- forget to take your birth control
- have parents who refuse to get you birth control
- are on birth control that didn’t work
- feel pressured
- are too drunk to give consent
- are in abusive relationships
- think it won’t happen this 1 time
- are dealing with intentional or unintentional condoms breaking
- are told they can never get pregnant
- are victims of rape
- are victims of incest
- receive a fatal diagnosis for their wanted pregnancy
- want to terminate for medical reasons
- and anything else I didn’t cover
If you are scared, feel alone, and need help please go to needabortion.org and know that I’m here if you need to talk.
There are people all over the country who will help you.
TW Let’s talk about abortion. Specifically 2nd & 3rd trimester abortions aka terminating for medical reasons (TFMR). 10% of abortions in the US fall into this category. Zero women selecting TFMR do so because they want to. Let’s delve further into ending a wanted pregnancy.
No woman gets pregnant with the intent to abort. Women who TFMR were planning to bring a healthy baby home. We went to all our appointment excited to hear or see our baby. We dreamed about soccer games, ballet classes, little league, & graduations. We had hopes and dreams.
Then the unthinkable happens. For me it was genetic testing that I opted into bc I was 35 & could find out gender earlier. I’ll never forget that phone call. I’d only met this OBGYN once & I knew the minute he said his name something was wrong. I was home with my 2 year old.