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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They did make the decision to have another baby and add to their family. Their next decision, once they found out issues like this particular one, is to decide how best to take care of that child regardless of his/her condition.
I’m so sick of this disposable society. If it’s not good enough toss it.
Didn’t they understand the risks involved from the beginning?!
You mean other than making their own decisions regarding their bodies and families.
Making decisions regarding their bodies is different than making decisions regarding their bodies that leads to the death of someone else.
The fetus also had a condition, associated with trisomy 13, that had led the brain to fail to split correctly, Kelly said: “That’s associated with really severe complications, like facial deformities, like only having one eye and really terrible things like that.
Covid19? (aka the Jab) I searched for data, found only BS. Not judging the woman and here husband, but don't think we have much real data.
"She considered getting an abortion in Illinois, a state that has become an abortion haven since Roe’s downfall; she made and cancelled appointments. She didn’t feel right going somewhere she had never been for such a personal procedure. “I was seeking any comfort I could possibly grab onto,” she said."
She made AND CANCELLED appointments. Yup.
Highligthing, from the article:
“She considered getting an abortion in Illinois, a state that has become an abortion haven since Roe’s downfall; she made and cancelled appointments. She didn’t feel right going somewhere she had never been for such a personal procedure. “I was seeking any comfort I could possibly grab onto,” she said.”
She made AND CANCELLED appointments. Yup.
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The further a woman must go for an abortion - the better.
Abortion mills that are close and available immediately have made it too easy for women to murder their child. Also, they can make a regrettable decision and act on it immediately without thought.
When considering murder to rid oneself of the discomfort of raising an “imperfect” child, I am of the opinion that having to jump through a few hoops is nothing compared to being acid burned alive or have your limbs cut up one by one…what about that pain?
Selfish, horrible women.
An abortion is not healthcare.
>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? <
The heart of her decision is the baby won’t live very long. How long is long enough, hours, one year, 18 years, 60 years? That is not for us to decide. God makes that decision.
My mother’s first pregnancy ended with twin girls that survived less than an hour. It shaped her responsible, productive life going forward. She devoted her life to God’s work and was blessed with my sister and me -though I may not have been such a blessing at times. She has been active in the church for the 70 years since and completed a 30 year teaching career.
God never places a burden so large that he knows we cannot handle. I doesn’t always make sense at the time. My mother looks forward to the time she can be reunited with her daughters and introduce them to the rest of us.
Don’t mess with God’s will. It all has a purpose.
EC
“We are just saying don’t kill them.”
Then you choose to bring a baby into the world that will have a very sgort life, with horrible possibilities?
Babies with trisomy 13 will have a characteristic group of problems that may include the following: microcephaly (small head size), cleft lip and/or cleft palate (facial and/or oral defect), omphalocele (abdominal defect), spina bifida (open spine defect), microphthalmia (small eyes), anophthalmia (absent eyes), scalp defects, polydactyly (extra fingers and toes), cryptorchidism (undescended testes), omphalocele (infant’s intestines, liver or other organs stick outside of the belly), holoprosencephaly (anatomic defect of the brain involving the forebrain), kidney defects, and skin defects of the scalp. About 80% of infants with Trisomy 13 will have a heart defect as well. The type of heart defect varies, but most often would be a ventricular septal defect (opening between the lower heart chambers), an atrial septal defect (opening between the upper heart chambers), a patent ductus arteriosus (a blood vessel from fetal life that does not close), or dextrocardia, which is a location of the heart on the right side of the chest instead of the left side.
And you’ll notice the list of problems in the above list did not say might, or could. It said will have one or more of many of the defects. So if you choose to put a child through this for the limited time they can survive, that’s your choice. She chose not to torture the child with a life like this even as brief as it will be as 80% will not survive past the first month of life. It’s a choice that had to be made.
As for adoption, adopting a child with the above problems is not something most parents choose to try. If they survive leaving the hospital, which 40 to 45% don’t, then they are normally placed in foster with care givers trained to assist them. Not much of a life and can be painful to include surgeries. I don’t envy her making that choice.
wy69
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