Posted on 01/20/2015 10:53:40 PM PST by Morgana
I’m stuck in that nightmare again. I walk past the picketers, with their signs showing the mangled bodies of late-term fetuses. They yell at me. One sign reads, “I speak for those who can’t speak for themselves.” The person holding it screams, “Don’t kill me, Mommy!” into my ear.
My partner tells me to take a deep breath and keep walking. I’m shaking. I want to tell them why I’m there: pregnancy complications that have left me between a rock and a hard place.
I’m on what feels like an assembly-line inside the clinic, surrounded by a group of women and girls being herded from one room to the next. Undress here, get your ultrasound there, sign your papers over that way. There’s a silent sisterhood, an understanding, between us. We talk a little.
The youngest of us looks like she’s about fourteen. She’s crying because she wants her mom to be with her when it happens. The oldest of us says she did this once before and promises the teenager that it’s not that bad. They sedate you, she says, so you probably won’t even remember it.
I sign the consent forms with shaking hands. Yes, I’m sure. No, no one is pressuring me.
The doctors and nurses look irritated that I declined the sedative. I didn’t have much choice. I was already four dollars short of affording the “discount” procedure, and had to find the difference by digging under my car seats for loose change. Two hundred dollars extra for sedation wasn’t something I could manage.
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Where does a 13 year old girl who shields her abortion from her parents find the money to pay for it, let alone the $200 for sedation?
Oh, that’s right, their adult “baby daddy” who gets away with statutory rape because Planned Parenthood doesn’t give a damn about young girls or a real war on women.
"You mean even baby-siting jobs?"
Yep.
She was treated coldly. The doctor screamed at her. She has the disabling Hell of PTSD. And yet she dumps on Pro-Lifers and says feminists have to keep abortion safe. How brainwashed can a person get? And she won’t blame abortion for PTSD in Post-Abortion women but cites previous mental health issues.
Actually, she’s demanding that we pay for depression screenings and counseling for everyone after an abortion. More than just her but hundreds of thousands who might request it each year.
Feminists say abortion brings ecstatic joy so how can this be?
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