Just one out of millions who have them
I came across this on twitter. It sounds very much like the story of an aunt of mine who went through a similar thing in the late 60s. This is what it was like. What it will be like again:
Pre-Roe, I was 8 yrs old. I came home from school to find my Mom lying in a puddle of blood. She was weak & asked me to call a neighbor. She was miscarrying, but the embryo would not abort. For 48 hours, she bled while doctors transfused blood, waiting. Abortions were illegal.
My Father was required to bring my little sister & I to the hospital boardroom to prove to the board there were children to consider. I will never forget standing there, watching my Father get on his knees & BEG the board to save my Mother. The embryo was not viable, & yet,
it was killing my Mom. I stood in that boardroom for hours, listening to a group of old men argue about saving a woman by removing an embryo. I didn’t understand what they were saying except that my Mom was going to die if they voted against an abortion.
My Father was crying. this strong man, who I had always felt so safe with, was crying because he was helpless in saving my Mom. If you don’t think that affects a child, you are SO WRONG I never forgot that scene. I had so many questions, & no one to explain.
72 hours after it began, the board voted to abort the embryo & save my Mom. 72 hours of no sleep for my Dad. 72 hours of not knowing if my Mom would live.
When Roe v Wade was decided I felt such a relief that no family member would ever have to go through the grief we went through.
2 years ago, my daughter had an ectopic pregnancy. It was attached to an artery & if it burst, she would bleed to death before she could make it to an ambulance. Because of Roe, her life was saved. She did not have 72 hours for doctors to “decide” if her life was worthI have 5 granddaughters. I shudder to think if one of them has a pregnancy that endangers their lives, that they may not be saved. We CANNOT GO BACKWARDS!!
Originally tweeted by Masked, Vaxed, & Boosted ‘Cuz I Care About You (@DianaMiller5) on May 5, 2022.
This event happened pre-viability which means the fetus was going to die either way. They just couldn’t decide whether the woman should die too.
I am also stuck by the detail in that story that they had to “prove to the board there were children to consider.” If there weren’t would they have felt freer to let the woman die? Sounds like it.
This is the world we’re going back to — you know, when America was great.