Posted on 04/01/2020 4:17:26 PM PDT by Morgana
Heather Artrip, an out-of-work single mother of two sons, is facing down the prospect of a high-risk pregnancy in the middle of a pandemic.
The 30-year-old Austin woman lost her job as a server two weeks ago when city officials shuttered bars and restaurant dining rooms to limit the spread of the new coronavirus.
She wants to look for a new job, but doctors have deemed her pregnancy high risk. “I have a grade two prolapse. My uterus could fall out,” Artrip said. “I'd have to be bedridden for the majority of my pregnancy.”
Artrip's plans to end the pregnancy were thrown into question when Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton declared that abortions wouldn't be considered essential procedures as local officials and medical professionals race to manage an expected onslaught of COVID-19 patients.
The day before her scheduled procedure, Artrip's clinic called to cancel. She's just one of potentially hundreds of Texans whose reproductive health decisions have been cast into uncertainty as the ongoing battle between abortion providers and Texas' top officials plays out in the courts. Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas has already canceled 261 abortions, KUT reported last week.
“It is definitely a terrifying place to be, in this purgatory. It's very uncertain, and the roller coaster of emotions is extreme,” Artrip said.
Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order March 22 barring any procedures that are not “immediately medically necessary.” Paxton subsequently declared that the order applies to any abortions not considered critical to protect the life or health of the parent, prompting a lawsuit from a group of abortion providers.
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Using abortion as retroactive birth control , another problem
Get in bed and save your baby. Should have closed your legs and/or found a responsible man.
No more terrifying than in your womb...
These 'pro-choice' women make me sick. She even states that she 'would like a 3rd child at some point. This just isn't an ideal time'. So, I'll just kill this one for now...try again later.
Hard to believe both the condom and the pill failed at the same time.
There is an exception if her life is truly in danger
Now is the time you can do it
Where is the Father of her first two children?
Correct me if I am wrong but if she and others wait for the all clear they still have access to late term abortion, right?
Daddy not in picture apparently.
Yes she consented but so did he.
Men please remember fornication often results In dead children. You have no legal right to stop the abortion of your child and often you don’t even know your child exists.
Three years’ counselor at a pro life pregnancy center and I had one married woman abort. One. All the rest were single women.
Wait until you are married to have sex.
“There is an exception if her life is truly in danger”
Also she’d would qualify for welfare if it were the case. She could stay in bed till the baby came. Methinks she just wants an abortion.
What does the father want to do ?
That’s the way it sounds to me too.
In New Mexico and I think Kansas.
“What does the father want to do ?”
They don’t even bring him up in this article
There are at least 200 pro-life pregnancy centers in Texas alone. Any of them would do anything, move heaven and earth, to make sure she can experience a safe, secure and healthy pregnancy and childbirth, and get post-childbirth help for her as well.
They do this with love, with expertise, with lots of resources, and for free.
I hope one of them sees this article and can contact the woman. It would be a soul-saver as well as a life-saver.
Is she related to Alyssa Milano?
There was an old woman
Who lived in a shoe
She had so many kids
Her uterus fell out....OH!
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