Posted on 02/03/2024 6:27:52 AM PST by Morgana
When K Monica Kelly saw that women in Texas had filed a lawsuit challenging the contours of their state’s abortion ban, she posted on Instagram to cheer them on.
“I shared how terrible I thought it was, that they weren’t able to get the proper healthcare they needed in their state,” Kelly said. “It never crossed my mind that that was actually going to happen to me soon.”
Kelly and her husband spent a year trying to have a second baby. So when they discovered in February 2023 that Kelly was pregnant, the couple was ecstatic. They taught their son, who was then two years old, to describe their family as: “Mama, dada, me, baby, all four!” After an ultrasound looked promising, they drove more than 10 hours from their home in northern Tennessee to announce the news to their family in Florida.
Only days later, after they’d returned home, in late March, the pair drove back to Florida. This time, though, the drive was “surreal and devastating”, Kelly said. A series of catastrophic fetal diagnoses had led Kelly to decide to get an abortion – a procedure she could not legally get in Tennessee.
“It’s awful and agonizing to just even drive that far to go do something that you just really don’t want to do,” Kelly said. “Even up until the last second, I wished that I could change my mind. But I just knew that that was the best decision.”
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More on Trisomy 13...
What is the life expectancy for someone with trisomy 13?
Since internal organ symptoms can be life-threatening, nearly 80% of babies diagnosed with Trisomy 13 don't survive past their first year. Those that do survive may face more life-threatening complications after their first year including an increased risk of developing cancer and seizures.Jan 25, 2023
What is the longest someone has lived with Patau syndrome?
Survivals beyond the first year of life are unusual, and beyond the first decade are exceptional, only seven patients over 10 being reported to date [11], [16], [17], [20], [21], [22], three of which over 18 [17], [20], [21]. The oldest patient so far reported is an adult of 32 years of age [21].
Why is trisomy 13 so fatal?
Each cell normally contains 23 pairs of chromosomes, which carry the genes you inherit from your parents. But a baby with Patau's syndrome has 3 copies of chromosome 13, instead of 2. This severely disrupts normal development and, in many cases, results in miscarriage, stillbirth or the baby dying shortly after birth.
So K Monica Kelly you had no love in your heart to give to your baby for such a little time that the child would live? All you could see is an extra chromosome and not a beautiful baby to love?
Here’s a clue:
- Sex leads to babies
- Birth control is 5 cents per use, or less
- Abortions cost $1,000+
Do the math.
Don’t make others pay for your laziness or mistakes
The moral and economic cases against abortion are irrefutable
Husseincare doesn’t cover that?
Sounds like she wanted this baby until she found out the child had Trisomy 13, then she wanted an abortion.
The baby would most likely die after being born and she can’t love the child for a few hours before it passes?
Even with Trisomy 13 the baby still feels the pain of being aborted.
What is wrong with these women?
Seems to me she should move to California where she can get her abortion and they’ll throw in a sweetener and trans op her to a male so it doesn’t happen again, all for free. She also gets frequent flyer points towards a free boob job if she’s an illegal migrant
Obviously the life of the mother was not at risk. Every state allows for termination of pregnancy in that condition
Umm, she is married and wanted another baby.
If she doesn’t like the TN laws, nobody’s keeping her here.
Abortion is NOT health CARE...for either the mother, or, the baby.
I wonder what the impact is on future fertility by stopping a pregnancy abruptly versus letting it to term.
She had trouble conceiving this baby.
How do hormones get disrupted in a body by abortion?
Is she more or less likely to get pregnant again after an abortion versus giving birth as a result of natural labor?
I had a hairdresser who had a hard time getting pregnant for the second time. She had waited awhile after the first because she and her husband got married young due to an unplanned pregnancy. All those years of birth control pills took a toll.
Well, guess what she found out when she went to her doctor six months post birth because she was concerned something was wrong since her periods didn’t start up again and she had other symptoms that made her think she had cancer or something bad?
Five months later she two babies to add to the nursery of the one whose first birthday was still a couple weeks away.
Notice they always substitute the word Abortion with Health Care. And the abortion is not needed, it’s wanted
Apparently they have trouble with decisions since they cannot take simple and easy precautions so their actions won’t end up with the killing of an unborn child.
“What is wrong with these women?”
Many babies with trisomy 13 and 18 die in the first year of life. Survivors all have severe cognitive impairment. There has been a debate among both professionals and parents about whether it is appropriate to provide life-sustaining interventions to babies with these serious conditions.
On one side of the debate are those who argue that there is no point in providing invasive, painful, and expensive procedures when the only outcomes are either early death or survival with severe cognitive impairment. Others suggest that, although mortality is high and cognitive impairment universal, babies with these conditions have an acceptable quality of life.
This is not an easy decision to make. Having a child that will have to go through those painful procedures to sustain a life that in most cases doesn’t rate anything over an acceptable quality of life.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28365826/
“...she can’t love the child for a few hours before it passes?”
By allowing it to live she may be torturing the child and doesn’t want to do that either. And there’s no way of telling that prior to birth. So maybe there is more pain in making the decision to end the life of a child in the womb as there is if the child suffers after birth.
But at least it has come down to medical reasons and not a blanket ruling by the feds for religious purposes or to garnish votes. So maybe the ousting of the misapplied Roe to get the federal government out of the medical business needs to apply to everyone except the parents and doctors and the pain it will cause both ways. Isn’t that why Roe was tossed and celebrated for getting it down to the level of the parents and medical teams?
I don’t fault people for having an opinion. But in the long run, it is just an opinion. And if it will alleviate pain in a child, doesn’t that measurement belong to the parents and how much pain they will suffer for the decision for the rest of their lives? So isn’t it one they should make?
wy69
“What is wrong with these women?”
Many babies with trisomy 13 and 18 die in the first year of life. Survivors all have severe cognitive impairment. There has been a debate among both professionals and parents about whether it is appropriate to provide life-sustaining interventions to babies with these serious conditions.
On one side of the debate are those who argue that there is no point in providing invasive, painful, and expensive procedures when the only outcomes are either early death or survival with severe cognitive impairment. Others suggest that, although mortality is high and cognitive impairment universal, babies with these conditions have an acceptable quality of life.
This is not an easy decision to make. Having a child that will have to go through those painful procedures to sustain a life that in most cases doesn’t rate anything over an acceptable quality of life.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28365826/
“...she can’t love the child for a few hours before it passes?”
By allowing it to live she may be torturing the child and doesn’t want to do that either. And there’s no way of telling that prior to birth. So maybe there is more pain in making the decision to end the life of a child in the womb as there is if the child suffers after birth.
But at least it has come down to medical reasons and not a blanket ruling by the feds for religious purposes or to garnish votes. So maybe the ousting of the misapplied Roe to get the federal government out of the medical business needs to apply to everyone except the parents and doctors and the pain it will cause both ways. Isn’t that why Roe was tossed and celebrated for getting it down to the level of the parents and medical teams?
I don’t fault people for having an opinion. But in the long run, it is just an opinion. And if it will alleviate pain in a child, doesn’t that measurement belong to the parents and how much pain they will suffer for the decision for the rest of their lives? So isn’t it one they should make?
wy69
I just read this about precious baby Bristol Rain before I logged on to FR.
https://www.facebook.com/SaveTheStorks
She does not have to keep the baby if it lives! Tennessee has safe haven laws and thousands would adopt the kid.
No one is making these women keep a disabled child they can’t raise. We are just saying don’t kill them.
The origin of the expression “eff around and find out”
PENAL CODE TITLE 5. OFFENSES AGAINST THE PERSON CHAPTER 21. SEXUAL OFFENSES Sec. 21.01. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: (1) "Deviate sexual intercourse" means: (A) any contact between any part of the genitals of one person and the mouth or anus of another person; or
Bill striking unconstitutional state law that criminalized homosexuality fails to meet critical deadline in the Texas House……. Guess it just petered out….
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/11/texas-sodomy-ban-repeal-bill/
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