30 3 / 2011
Fucking depressing
http://thehairpin.com/2011/03/ask-an-abortion-provider/
From this great article! I’ve been reading the comments and this one finally made me burst into tears (due to growing sadness over another commentor’s thread). I really hope this isn’t a huge violation of privacy, posting a person’s comment, either way I’m taking the username out.
Thanks.
I’m the other you… Catholic guilt, love of sex, pregnancy at 19, … But it was 1968, and abortions were not to be had. Instead, I downed an entire month’s birth control prescription at once, took quinine because someone said…, fell down the stairs on purpose a couple of time, and finally, sat in the bathtub clenching a knitting needle bawling my eyes out when I realized there was no way out.
I never finished my education, I dropped out to get married and spent 6 years in a bad marriage before trading it for one that’s been okay. I lived from paycheck to paycheck, and when the paychecks stopped, there wasn’t enough money to keep food on the table or pay the rent, much less pay for medical insurance or save for my kid’s college education.
Now, in my 60s, I often dream of what life might have been. So thanks. And if anyone ever tries to dissuade you, please, remember me.
DDDDD””’:
I just can’t understand how anti-choice advocates can believe that removing access to safe abortions will result in women carrying all those pregnancies to term… instead of the fucking obvious effect which will be the rise of women who have to seek out illegal abortions preformed by who-fucking-knows. Also lets not forget that 87% of the nation does not have access to abortion AT ALL, so why are these assholes still spreading hate, fear, sexism, lies, abuse and violence? (they may not be spreading all of these things directly, but they feed into all of them! Perpetuates the idea that women are too stupid to make any type of decision for themselves… you know just like how all the slaves were too stupid to be free people and thus needed their owners in order to live!! These laws are just in place to help us dumb womenzz)
IT’S MY BODY, GET YOUR FALSE BELIEFS THE FUCK OUT OF MY LIFE!!
