It makes your eyes squint. You want to turn away. Look somewhere else. You hold your stomach without realising it. You feel sick as you you listen to the stories of these women talking about the abortions they received before abortions were legal.
One had been raped. She begged to abort the baby. It almost killed her, the procedure, and she could never have children.
Watch the harrowing video here. Post continues afterwards.
Another wasn’t permitted anaesthetic and was forbidden from screaming.
“They’ll hear you,” her ‘surgeon’ said. The same surgeon who molested her while she was still bleeding, directly after the operation.
The video was created by The Scene and shows the stories of women in America who received their abortion before 1973 when the senate passed Roe v Wade, which legalised the procedure and gave women a choice.
Jane received an abortion in 1968. She had been raped in her final year of college; woken up with a man’s hands around her throat. “If you scream I will kill you”.
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Such a sick past
Anti choicers, how is this ok with you
This is the outcome your position has
This is such an important point. Women who are desperate to maintain control over their fertility will seek abortion whether it is legal or not, and if the latter they will be risking their lives. It is so important to make these procedures available legally alongside family planning and contraception so that women worldwide aren't held hostage by unwanted pregnancies.