Ada's Story: Woman Glad She Had Abortion

I put my co-pay and a small donation on my credit card. It's a lot less than I thought I'd have to pay. I'm relieved, since I have student fees and rent coming up. More waiting. I get very hungry. I wish I had eaten breakfast before coming. I look over the pamphlet and discover NuvaRing. It sounds great and so much more convenient than the Pill. My regular doctor had not mentioned it. I had no idea there was something so easy available. I'm excited to get started with that right away.

Three hours after first arriving, it's finally time. I'm led to a bathroom and told to empty my bladder and put a pad in my underwear. I'm then led to another room where I strip from the waist down and lie on a table. I realize that I'm not even nervous. I feel a little awkward lying on a table with no pants, but nothing too bad. The doctor comes in, introduces himself, and shakes my hand. A woman stands next to me and starts some small talk. It gets my mind off what's going on. I barely feel a thing at first. The woman next to me warns I'll soon hear the vaccuum turn on and feel some cramping. It was still a bit surprising to feel cramps so suddenly. It is uncomfortable, but not painful. More small talk. She's a cat person but her apartment won't allow them. I sympathize.

Finally, I hear the machine shut off, and the woman next to me says it is hopefully over. The doctor confirms. All the important parts have been removed. I'm done.

The doctor reminds me of the importance of scheduling a follow-up exam before leaving the room. As soon as I sit up, the cramps get a lot better. I get dressed and go into the recovery room. I'm still hungry, and a little cold, but am feeling pretty good. The cramps aren't that bad, and I'm relieved to have the procedure done.

I tell the woman I have decided on the NuvaRing. We discuss that and go over my aftercare. 7 days of antibiotics. No sex, tampons, or lifting over twenty pounds for two weeks. Nothing I can't handle. I'm reminded once more to make an appointment for a follow-up exam in three to four weeks. I get a small brown bag with papers describing everything I was told about, a bottle of antibiotics, and my first NuvaRing. Another woman checks my blood pressure and temperature again. My blood pressure has come back down.

I'm hungry, and I want a nap, but I'm feeling good about my decision, and relieved that it's over. My roommate takes me for lunch and drops me off at home before heading into work. I'm hardly bleeding at all.

I talk to my mom on the phone a few hours later. I lie and say that nothing's new in my life. I know she wouldn't approve, but I also know she's not ready to be a grandmother yet.

Feb. 7: After a few days of just light spotting, it's starting to feel like a period flow. I haven't used pads in over ten years. It feels strange.

I make the appointment for my follow-up exam. It will be on February 25, exactly three weeks after the procedure. They'll make sure there were no complications, and I'll get the chance to buy more NuvaRings.

Walking home from the store, I hear a baby wailing through an apartment window on my street. I chuckle to myself and think how happy I am that won't be my window later this year.

To simply say "I'm not sorry" or "I don't regret it" is not strong enough. Having an abortion was the best decision I ever made. I'm glad I did it, and I'm 100% confident that I made the right choice for myself, my lover, and our situation. It's not right for everyone, but it was right for me, and I'll do everything in my power to make sure every woman has the opportunity to decide if it is right for her without legislation making that decision for her.

Any pregnancy will change your life, whether you have the baby or not. It should be up to us how we let it change us.

I don't think I've ever read anything this revolting in my entire life. The Book of Judges tells the story of a Levite who was visiting the city of Gibeah and some men took his concubine, gang raped her all night and killed her. He came out the next day and cut the corpse in twelve pieces and sent them to the tribes of Israel. This got their attention and they declared that they would put evil out of the land.

Atheists deride the morality of the Old Testament heroes, but I think that they have quite a bit on us. We forget about the inhumane slaughter between the march for life and the Life Chain, and some pay it no mind even then. We've let evil prosper in this land with our damned (and I'm not swearing) moral equivalency, and if we do not gain leaders of great character who will fight this evil, we will lose all we hold dear.

Live with slavery in the 1830s, abortion advocates are now trying to change the view of abortion from that of a necessary evil to a positive social, moral, and political good. God help us all.

Here is part of a post written by freeper joanie-f on another thread. If she were on here right now I’m sure she would re-post it here:

Just a couple of questions:

Do you suppose, if she watches the news, this young woman (I had instinctively written ‘young lady’ before I regained my sanity) was able to look at the pictures several months ago of the four charred, mutilated bodies of American contractors who were hung from a bridge over the Euphrates? My guess would be that this woman -- just like the rest of us -- would have turned away in horror.

What inspired the perpetrators of that atrocity to do what they did? Most radical Muslim barbarians are wreaking their havoc out of a perverted sense of ‘spiritual destiny’. A belief that they are pleasing their god, and earning their way into a blissful, Koran-defined eternity.

How does the burning and mutilation of those four unfortunate American contractors differ from the burning and mutilation of an innocent victim of abortion?

Here are two methods of abortion – one extremely common, and one not entirely rare:

(1) by saline solution: The abortionist injects a strong salt solution directly into the amniotic fluid. The baby -- to whom that fluid has represented warmth and comfort -- then breathes it in through its trachea and swallows it through its esophagus. He struggles with the burning toxicity, and often suffers prolonged convulsions. Generally in a little over an hour the baby is dead. Within forty-eight hours he usually emerges naturally from the womb as a prescribed ‘miscarriage’. If not, he is taken from the uterus -- but often not before being dismembered, to one degree or another (generally one or both arms, and/or one or both legs) before his death, in order to facilitate his eventual removal from the womb.

(2) by partial birth: The baby’s foot or lower leg is located and pulled into the birth canal. The baby is extracted in breech fashion until the head is just inside the cervix. With the baby face-down, scissors are plunged into the baby's head at the nape of the neck and spread open to enlarge the wound. A suction tip is inserted and the baby's brain removed. The skull collapses and the baby is delivered. This abortion is often performed when a baby is viable, and frequently performed when he is completely or near-completely ready to be born. In other words, the skull is punctured, and the brain is suctioned from the skull of a child who possesses all of the pain-sensory equipment, and emotional capability, of a newborn.

And why are partial birth abortions more prevalent than one would think? Simply because they offer the medical community mature harvested body parts with which to conduct research.

I would like to ask the woman who feels the need to advertise the fact that she has subjected her child to one of the above ‘procedures’ (or something very similar), who is promoting the ‘procedure’ to others, and who most likely would have turned away from the mutilated bodies over the Euphrates pictures whether she has seen these: abortion pictures (I only know their contents via word-of-mouth … have not viewed them myself ... but she must).

Considering all of this, just a couple more questions (to which I do not claim to know the definitive answers, but I wish each of us would attempt to find and define our own):

(1) What brand of evil is represented by men who, as a result of their ‘religious beliefs’ murder, torture, and mutilate innocent men, women and children with whom they are not even acquainted – and who then issue communiqués taking ‘credit’ for the grisly murders, or who dance en masse in the streets after the murders have occurred?

(2) What brand of evil is represented by women who, as a result of their desire for comfort and/or future convenience, murder, torture, and mutilate their own innocent children – and who then advertise in order to receive credit for the grisly murders, in order to affirm their intention to continue the bloodbath (should it be deemed necessary to ensure their continued comfort and/or convenience), and in order to deliver a message to other women that abortion is something of which to be proud?

Is one any more evil than the other?

If so, which?

Both brands of evil are the enemy of everyone but themselves. A person who places no value on innocent human life, and feels no remorse in occupying that moral vacuum, is a danger to society ... especially when she (feminine pronoun purposefully employed) is capable of, and bent on, proselytizing her wicked ideology to others.

~ joanie

24 posted on 07/30/2004 3:24:18 PM PDT by joanie-f (To disagree with three-fourths of the American public is one of the first requisites of sanity.)

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