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Zorro

(15,690 posts)
Sun Oct 20, 2019, 08:26 AM Oct 2019

I Had a Late-Term Abortion. I Am Not a Monster.

I am a baby killer.

I stopped mid-step on my way into my office in Manhattan, and that thought scrolled through my brain yet again: “I am a baby killer.” It was an April day this year, nine weeks after I ended my child’s life.

I decided to keep walking.

That is a choice I have to make every day: Give up or keep moving. I have been choosing the latter, over and over again.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/19/opinion/sunday/late-term-abortion.html

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I Had a Late-Term Abortion. I Am Not a Monster. (Original Post) Zorro Oct 2019 OP
Thoughts for her get the red out Oct 2019 #1
20+ years ago my daughter utilized the services of Dr Tiller. NoMoreRepugs Oct 2019 #2
Ain't nobodies business but your own! SCVDem Oct 2019 #3
The decision to end a pregnancy... mwooldri Oct 2019 #4

get the red out

(13,456 posts)
1. Thoughts for her
Sun Oct 20, 2019, 09:00 AM
Oct 2019

These rabid anti-choice fanatics don’t care about mothers and babies at all. I keep reading that so many of what they call late term abortions are a result of parents receiving a devastating medical diagnosis for either the fetus or mother. RW religion eliminates compassion.

NoMoreRepugs

(9,215 posts)
2. 20+ years ago my daughter utilized the services of Dr Tiller.
Sun Oct 20, 2019, 09:07 AM
Oct 2019

She is NO monster either, just a young woman who made a choice about her own body and future.

 

SCVDem

(5,103 posts)
3. Ain't nobodies business but your own!
Sun Oct 20, 2019, 11:29 AM
Oct 2019

That's the way it should be.

There is support available as you know, if you need it.

Judge not....

mwooldri

(10,291 posts)
4. The decision to end a pregnancy...
Mon Oct 21, 2019, 12:19 AM
Oct 2019

... is between patient and doctor.

I disagree with the writer of the opinion story; she is not a "baby killer". But that is my opinion. The alternative seems to be that the writer could have carried the foetus to term, delivered a humanoid baby with a barely there brain, and watched as the baby suffered and ultimately die. My opinion is that she made the right choice. She definitely experienced a loss. I know she won't read this but all I can say is I'm sorry.

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