Posted on 07/09/2022 6:39:43 AM PDT by Morgana
To the editor: As a woman of a certain age, I have two stories to tell — one of an illegal abortion, the other legal.
Back in the 1960s, before birth control was easy to access, I became pregnant. The father was sent to Vietnam, and I was in college. I would rather have died than have the baby. If I could prove that I was insane, I could get an abortion. No luck. The psychiatrist said I was sane.
My brother helped me find an illegal abortionist and got the $600 together. We met the middleman in a coffee shop in Van Nuys. He made my brother stay and took me to a motel. He told me to put on a negligee while we waited for the abortionist. I refused.
Finally the doctor came. Thankfully he was very nice. He took me to the bedroom. With no painkillers, he did the deed. The pain was excruciating. The middleman paid him and took me back to the coffee shop, and my brother took me home. I needed follow-up care, but thankfully I was able to have a baby I wanted years later.
A marriage later, I became pregnant. Unfortunately, my birth control didn't work. We were very poor and couldn't afford another child. I made an appointment to have a legal abortion. I don't even remember what happened because it was so easy and painless.
Unfortunately, now women will be forced into seedy motels, if they can even find someone to do it, or be forced to travel to a state like California.
As for me, I have no regrets. I raised a wonderful son, went to graduate school and was happily married for more than 30 years.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
This is another mostly false statement.
According to numerous studies. Abortions performed before and after Roe were about the same as far safety and similar concerns were considered.
The same people performed it in similar settings.
It costed a lot more then.
Goslin abortions were legal too and he ended up killing people.
Trojan brand condoms were Initially founded in 1846.
Two stories: One in which I went to great lengths to hire a hit-doctor to murder my child to cover my stupidity in unsafe sex and continue college in an effort to make lots of money following graduation; the other in which, being “poor,” (despite completing college which should have generated a good job?) I decided that murdering a child to save money was a good reason to end a human life.
It’s all in the writeup. “Pro-choice” isn’t the only euphemistic effort to justify murder.
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