crazy legislation that they are pushing in the South. Close all abortion clinics, try doctors.

This is personal to me. I would literally not be here were it not for a father that moved my mother from a Catholic hospital. They determined that she still had a child in the womb, even while she had miscarried. My father said he could smell the decay from outside of the hospital room. The Catholic hospital would not do an abortion, even though my mother was dying of an infection, because, well, it would be a sin to save a woman's live since they somehow detected that the baby was alive - even though the stench of death was reeking. I am not making this up. This was in the late 60's.

They moved my mother to a public hospital and did a procedure that also included extracting dead tissue and a dead ... clump of nearly necrotized flesh that legislation would have considered a child because it was too dead for them to figure out if it had a heart beat or not. Had they waited another day, my mother could never bear children again, because she would have been dead. Three years later, I was born.

This is a personal issue for me. It is a personal issue for my mother. My rabidly bible-obsessed sister, who cannot carry a child to term due to heart problems and depends upon birth control is completely against abortion. I love her, despite how misguided she is and I hope that if she gets pregnant, someone is there to terminate the pregnancy that would kill her and her child.

I work as a nurse and one of the things I do is dialysis. I dialyze pregnant women from time to time. They usually aren't able to carry to term and the babies end up on NICU. It's these women's choices to do what they have to do, risking their lives to bear a child.

I've also cared for women who have chosen to terminate. One young woman, A ESL immigrant, had a kidney transplant. One of the drugs she has to take for the is a teratogenic drug, and the chances were good shed miscarry, but at great danger to herself. A Catholic, she didn't tell her family, and I ended being the one to to hug her, cry with her and help her on the stretcher on the way other abortion, she's healthy and happy now--she had a very supportive partner, but her desolation that day was in part because she couldn't tell her mother, she couldn't trust the church she was raised with.


This kind of shit has got to stop.

I wouldn't be here to tell it if my father didn't move my mother to a hospital where she could have a removal of her miscarriage. They wouldn't do it. I literally would not be here.

And it sure beats some of the anti-abortion right wing crap they fling around.

interfering with women's lives, their bodies, the choices, forcing them into the status of talking incubators or brood mares, is, indeed, torture.

and that fact that, in many areas, the catholic hospital is the ONLY medical service around, simply compounds the problem. women who are not of the faith are subjected to the same insanity as the faithful.