Women will die because of the abortion non-funding stipulation. Mark my [View All]

[truedelphi]

words, women will die.

A long time ago, in a life I can barely remember, I found out I was pregnant. One thirty in the afternoon.

I was twenty. As I walked home from work, I was somewhat excited, and somewhat scared. The pregnancy was not planned, but I knew my husband would be happy and somehow we would muddle our way through.

By the time I reached the house, I was spotting. By the time J. arrived home, I was bleeding very
heavily.

At 2 Am, I went into convulsions. What to do? I didn't think my parent's insurance covered me, and we didn't have insurance of our own.

We called the Chicago police, who hoisted me on a gurney and took both of us to the local hospital.

The doctor at the ER, probably a mere resident, was terrified of my situation. I was out of it by this time. I remember joking that he looked so very young, and as I was fading out, I heard him telling a nurse, "We cannot admit her. if this was an abortion she performed on herself, I could lose my license and so could the whole hospital."

Long story short - he sent us back home - while I hemorrhaged!

And all we had for that trip was a prescription we couldn't even fill until the time when the drug store opened. Supposedly the medication would stop the bleeding.

Luckily my mom stopped over at the house, something she never did mid-week. She put me in her car and took me to my childhood pediatrician. They worked things out so I was still on the folk's insurance. I was given a D & C as emergency surgery.

My body was so overwhelmed by everything that had happened, it failed to make red blood cells. I was in the hospital for a while, and when I got out I weighed 87 pounds (I am five feet eleven.)

When abortion rights are not a fundamental right, this is what happens. The only difference between what happened to me and what will happen to other twenty somethings is that they may be asked by the hospital to pay for the D & C upfront. If they cannot, too bad.