“This is ending a wanted pregnancy. This is late-term abortion. It was not wanted. It was not a “way out”. It was not birth control.
It was heartbreaking.”
So begins Lindsey Paradiso’s poignant Facebook post about her experience with “late-term abortion”.
She decided to share her story after watching Donald Trump during the third presidential debate, who described late-term abortions as “ripping babies out at nine months”.
When Lindsey heard those words, she "went into a full panic attack and started sobbing because I couldn’t believe people actually thought that happens", she told Buzzfeed Health.
"I had to share my story and set things straight."
While Lindsey first posted about her experience in October 2016, her heartbreaking story is trending again after the US state of Virginia proposed a ban on abortions after 20 weeks.
Lindsey was 18 weeks pregnant with her first child, a girl - which her and husband Matt had already named Omara "Omi" Rose - when doctors noticed a "bubble" growing on her neck.
A further ultrasound confirmed the worst: Baby Omara had a rare tumour that "consisted of small and large cysts, solid parts and blood flow".
"[The doctor] continued to say that this condition was not genetic, that they don't know what causes it and that it can be fatal to the baby," she wrote on her blog.
"He said it would probably be in our best interest to terminate the pregnancy since the chances of her dying were pretty inevitable.
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I find the abortion debate very hard to absorb. I'm quite torn as I know that there are many reasons pro and against.
Personally, I was born with a very rare congenital defect. I'm exactly the kind of baby that most of you would abort.
Yet here I sit, a 45yr old happily married wife, mother, university grad (under and post), a highly qualified professional etc etc
According to docs babies like me don't survive. To that I say pfft.
Do your own research first. You don't want to realise that with some medical interventions you could one day be looking at your middle aged child. Make a decision that you can live with comfortably.
Thoughts are with this family. This must have been an awful time for them.
This is why I hate the abortion debate. This poor woman should not have to share her story because of morons like Trump and other pro-birthers who think that they have some sort of god given right to interfere in the lives of strangers who do not want or require their opinion. Whether someone requires a medical procedure such as an abortion, that is THE BUSINESS OF NO ONE ELSE but the person who requires the procedure.
Laws are made all the time that don't take into account the small percentage of situations where they don't apply fairly.
I fail to see your point here, I'm sorry.
People often bring up stories like this when talking about why abortion shouldn't be illegal. I doubt many people would have large issues with abortion under these circumstances.
This is not a common story and shouldn't have any bearing on the laws.
No, my point is that it is none of your business why someone might require an abortion or what someone else uses their body for. My point is, this woman shouldn't have to share this horror with the world, because abortion should just be another private medical procedure that women can access for what ever personal reason they have.