I Thought Abortion Restrictions Were a Reasonable Compromise — Until I Needed One at 32 Weeks

Yahoo! Entertainment (sigh) ^ | February 28, 2020 | People Staff

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Ten weeks into my first pregnancy, I had a miscarriage. It was really devastating. My doctor said, ‘You know, this happens all the time and there’s no reason for you to not try again when you’re ready.’

So, a month later, I was pregnant again. We made it through the first trimester with no problems. Then we started to get some concerning blood test results and my pregnancy was elevated to be high risk. I was transferred to a high risk maternal fetal medicine obstetrician in New York City and was highly monitored, getting checks every couple of weeks, and as the weeks went on the complications racked up.

Over time, serious muscular issues came to light, like bilateral club feet, and the hands were always clenched tightly in every ultrasound. There was very little fetal movement, my amniotic fluid was really really high and most concerning, the fetus was not growing. These were things that my doctors couldn’t have known until the third trimester. Eventually our doctor determined the fetus was not swallowing. Swallowing is how a developing baby practices breathing — no swallowing, no breathing, that’s it.

We asked our doctor what would happen if I carried to term, and he said I would likely give birth to a baby who would choke for a few moments and then die. We got that information at 30 weeks.

At that point, there were really no good options for us. Taking all of the data and information that we had collected on this pregnancy over the eight months, we tried to make the best decision that we could live with. We wanted to alleviate suffering the best as we could and stay true to our own morals and values.

[A_perfect_lady]

“Kill it before it dies” pretty much sums it up.

[metmom]

There was always the chance the doctors were wrong about how severe the baby’s problems were.

I have heard many stories of that very thing being the case.

There's no excuse for murdering a baby.

If the baby dies at birth, it dies.

But it's better than ensuring it by murdering it.

[eastexsteve]

I think a big problem here is when doctors (like this one) tell people: “Oh, this happens all the time. Go ahead and get pregnant again - there is no reason not to.” Guessing “there is no reason not to” isn’t good enough when is comes to pregnancy. As far as I’m concerned, once you go down that road there is no turning back.

[shanover]

This moron is splitting hairs with her idiotic opinions,assumptions and skewed moral judgement. Obviously this is the typical trash written to prop up the pro death abortion crowd. Those who rationalize killing their baby are pure evil to me. I take nothing away from a catastrophic pregnancy because that does happen but it happens very rarely. I would never tell a women she needs to give her life to save her baby but there are woman who have and they are heroic. This women in this article and all of the women these days who “choose” and pontificate kill or not to kill sicken me.

[vpintheak]

What don’t have any tolerance for the murder of the innocent.

[alexander_busek]

We asked our doctor what would happen if I carried to term, and he said I would likely give birth to a baby who would choke for a few moments and then die. We got that information at 30 weeks.

Just wait until she is 79 years old and in the "home," with some greedy relative looming over her, putting a kink in her I.V.

"Auntie, the doctor said that you might wake up one morning and choke for a few moments and then die, so..."

Regards,

[Albion Wilde]

I had a miscarriage. It was really devastating. My doctor said, ‘You know, this happens all the time and there’s no reason for you to not try again when you’re ready.’ So, a month later, I was pregnant again.

What an idiot. Give your body time to heal. For all she knows, there was a low-grade virus in her system, or some other passing thing that would, nevertheless, affect the baby.