I know what you’re thinking: “But that’s not what we’re talking about. Ponder the particular and vile level of crazy. Would someone notice my friend from work, Denise, who saw me through so much of the ordeal and brought me lunch every single day for a week after? In Texas, there would be a bounty on the head of this kind mother of two. It was terrifying waiting for that phone call from the nurse every month. If the numbers went up, I would need chemotherapy. Was that a sign of life to you?įor twelve months after my abortion, I had blood drawn and tested to monitor human chorionic gonadotrophic levels. What do you think of that Judge Alito? And you, Texas legislature? Should I have stayed technically pregnant so you could require reams of documentation from my doctor while the tumor spread all through my body? There was hair and tiny fingernails and remnants of a fertilized egg in my uterus. Left untreated, the aggressive tumor can spread to your lungs and, yes, kill you. You have a positive pregnancy test you celebrate you even buy a couple of baby things you will later shove into a shoebox and store in the attic. Your body, and your blood work, doesn’t know that yet. I had an abortion because I had a molar pregnancy in which a tumor forms in place of a normal placenta. Not so simple now, is it? If I had been your wife, your daughter, your sister, your friend. If I had not had the abortion, I might well have died. We had been married a little over a year when I had an abortion.
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