[originalbuckeye]

Sorry to burst your bubble. I had a friend in 1968, in a small town in Illinois, who had an abortion. I was so upset when she told me what she was going to do as I remembered that woman, dead on the hospital lawn, on the cover of Life magazine. She told me her mother said it is really routine (I guess her divorcee mom had had at least one abortion herself). She said ‘You have it done in a hospital and they just call it a D and C’. Do you really think Monroe couldn’t have been able to get an abortion??

[heterosupremacist]

# 25 She said ‘You have it done in a hospital and they just call it a D and C’. Do you really think Monroe couldn’t have been able to get an abortion?? (D&C) = Dilation and Curettage This method is similar to the suction method with the added insertion of a hook shaped knife (curette) which cuts the baby into pieces. The pieces are scraped out through the cervix and discarded [Note: This abortion method should not be confused with a therapeutic D&C done for reasons other than pregnancy.]

[Nea Wood]

When I was a kid, I remember whispers that women had “gone to Sweden.” I guess that’s where women went to have abortions before it was legal. Or maybe that was just code, like, “She went to visit her aunt,” when a girl actually went to a “home for unwed mothers” to have a baby.

But yes, of course a rich woman like Marilyn would have managed to have an abortion!