Reply #46: Matt, thank you. This is my story. You are not alone!

[KyndCulture]

I'm crossposting this from Radio News America's forum, we had the same thought on the same day, to tell our stories..



I've told this story on Randi's board, but in the light of the neo-con corporate interest anti-women shill that was just nominated, it bears repeating again.

I am 39 years old and I had an abortion 2 years ago. If Roe v. Wade had been overturned, I would be dead. That's right. DEAD. Why is that? That is because in 1998 I was diagnosed with cervical cancer. I had surgery to remove the tumor and I thought that battle was over. The tumor reappeared in 2003....and due to a mistake by a nurse who was not paying attention to what she was doing, I was given a half dose of depoprovera at the same time the small tumor was discovered. Not having had a full dose, I got pregnant. I didn't even know I was pregnant until I was almost 18 weeks because of the tumor my body doesn't work the way it should. Without going into the details, I'll just say that me carrying a child to full term is a death sentence. So in Nov of 2003 I had a second trimester abortion that saved my life. It was difficult to find a doctor to perform the abortion and I had to travel 4 hours from my home and stay in a seedy hotel in downtown minneapolis to have the 3 day procedure, but that doctor saved my life. She is the only doctor in Minnesota that would take on such a procedure and she is an angel. Her office is hidden on the top floor of a medical office building. Her office is unmarked and you must have a code given to you to punch into the elevator to even get to her office. That's how many death threats this grandmother of 10 has had. When you leave her office, because of the number of people that watch that building from right wing crazyass violent terrorist so called "pro-life" groups, when you leave, they bandage your face with an eye patch or give you a fake cast on your arm so you won't be in danger going to your car. All that to have a procedure that is legal and was life saving to me.

Judge John Roberts would have me condemned to death to save the life of a fetus that would never have been viable in the first place. In what civilized country is this right?

So this is my story and one of the reasons that I am extremely politically involved. Women's lives are at stake here with this nomination. I don't mind telling the world I had an abortion, there is no stigma on me about it. It was the ONLY choice I had. How many more women like me are there that will die if Bush gets his way? I wouldn't be here writing the message if Roe v. Wade had been overturned.My two teenage kids would have lost their mother. I would have been dead.

We cannot let this happen to us and to our daughters.