Posted on 10/10/2021 1:44:51 PM PDT by Morgana
When the strictest abortion law in the nation went into effect in Texas last month, abortion procedures all but stopped.
Women woke up with a new reality: If they wanted an abortion, they would most likely need to travel out of the state.
It created exactly what abortion providers feared -- a chilling effect.
After calling more than a dozen clinics across the state, only one doctor agreed to talk to us on the record. Others declined, expressing outrage over the new law but concerns about possible litigation.
We traveled to Houston to meet Dr. Bhavik Kumar inside Planned Parenthood. He told us he typically performs 20 to 30 abortions a day. But the first day the law went into effect, on Sept. 1, he saw six patients and had to turn half of them away.
"I saw somebody who thought she was earlier in the pregnancy, but once she got here and had her ultrasound, found out she was much further along," Kumar said.
Texas' law makes it illegal for health care providers to perform an abortion "if the physician detects a fetal heartbeat," including embryonic cardiac activity, which can be as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.
"She was surprised. She was distraught. She was not expecting that information," he said. "She was crying and we began to explore options and think through the logistics of if she would be able to go out of state for the care that she needed."
The call center at Planned Parenthood turned into a crisis hotline -- flooded with women in desperation, not knowing where to turn.
For the first time, operators on the other end felt like they didn't have the answers to help.
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"I'm not in a place to have a baby. I have graduation to look forward to. I have me trying to start my whole career and my entire life ahead of me and my life is on hold right now," she said.
Madi said she was on birth control, and her pregnancy was a surprise. At six weeks, she had no idea she was pregnant.
When she finally took a pregnancy test and went to the doctor, it was too late to get an abortion under Texas law.
"When she told me that I was measuring at 10 1/2 weeks, I just cried. I was heartbroken and terrified because I felt like the only option that I knew I had was gone," Madi said."
REALITY CHECK IN 3...2...1...GO!
NO MADI, ABORTION WAS NOT YOUR ONLY OPTION. TEXAS LIKE ALL OTHER STATES HAS "SAFE HAVEN OR BABY MOSES" LAWS. ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS CARRY THE BABY TO TERM, DELIVER HIM/HER IN HOSPITAL THEN UPON LEAVING TELL THE CHARGE NURSE OR DOCTOR THAT YOU WOULD BE LEAVING THE BABY THERE UNDER THE "SAFE HAVEN OR BABY MOSES LAWS" IN THAT STATE, SIGN THE DISCHARGE PAPERS AND WALK THE FUCK OUT OF THE HOSPITAL. THEN YOU COULD HAVE GONE BACK AND FINISHED YOUR DEGREE, IN FACT YOU COULD HAVE STAYED IN COLLEGE UNTIL DELIVERY, THE SCHOOL WILL NOT KICK YOU OUT FOR BEING PREGNANT.
YOU ALWAYS HAD OPTIONS, YOU JUST CHOSE MURDER
The propaganda is thick with these reprobates.
The lead sob story about some drek. They never interview anyone affected by their policies. ABC News needs to rot in Hell.
CRY ME LAKE MICHIGAN
Maybe start with the baby daddy, woman-up, and get married.
Should have carried the baby to term and left it for adoption. Man, how can they do that?
“Following one Texas woman’s abortion journey over state lines: Reporter’s Notebook”
You know if condoms, birth control pills or IUDs were actually available or weren’t so expensive women wouldn’t have to get an abortion. I guess there it is so much more troubling to prevent pregnancies than in murdering a baby by abortion.
Contraceptives. They’re free just about everywhere. I guess prevention is just too much trouble.
Have they interviewed any of the survivors that were saved by the abortion law yet? I suppose they’ll have to wait a few years. In the meantime, maybe Madi can keep her pants on, or at least take appropriate precautions.
The adoption agencies make it all very easy also, and it can lead to joy down the road years later. My family has been there done that and it worked out great for everyone. The child is in college now, on sports and studies scholarships.
I’m waiting for Rachel’s sympathetic story on a family facing economic ruin because of the vaccine mandates, of losing their job because they did not want to have an experimental vaccine with widely-reported adverse effects injected into their body.
How about move to another state.
Every Democrat craves a butchered baby.
If only there was some type of medical technology or behavioral modification that could prevent unwanted pregnancies.
According to the article she says she was on the pill and it failed. A first, most are not but she is in college so she does care about her education to a certain degree no pun intended.
It's called commitment to Christ.
It will take a Third Great Awakening to turn the hearts of mothers to their children.
“Madi”, Dr. Bhavik Kumar, and every other person who contracts to murder a human child should HANG BY THE NECK UNTIL DEAD. Maybe after the war, we can try and hang some of these abortionists and the murdering child-haters who hire them.
Contraceptives have probably done more to foster abortions than to prevent them. They feed the illusion that male-female sexual relations are to be undertaken without regard for their very purpose, namely that of procreation within the protection of a family.
What about your baby?
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