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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Thu Oct 31, 2013, 09:33 AM Oct 2013

‘I’m showing my son mercy’

By Irin Carmon


On their last night in Dallas, the ramen noodles and microwave popcorn were finished. The money for the motel had run out too. So on a hot August night Jessica and Erick Davis and their three young kids slept in the Mazda rented for the trip.

It had only been a few hours since Jessica’s abortion. Because the procedure needed to be performed later in her pregnancy, it stretched over three days.

“I cried until I could fall asleep,” she said.

Earlier that month, at home in Oklahoma City, the Davises were told that the boy she was carrying had a severe brain malformation known as holoprosencephaly. It is rare, though possible, for such a fetus to survive to birth, but doctors told them that he would not reach his first birthday. “He would never walk, lift his head,” Jessica, 23, recalled in an interview.

“I could let my son go on and suffer,” she said. Or she could accept a word she didn’t like – abortion - “and do the best thing for my baby.”

The Davises’ ordeal was always going to be painful. But the grim path that led them to a night in the car was determined, nearly every step of the way, by a state that has scrambled to be the most “pro-life” in the nation. There are no exceptions for families like the Davises.

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‘I’m showing my son mercy’ (Original Post) n2doc Oct 2013 OP
this is disgusting what the religious nut cases of the right wing do to people like this. gopiscrap Oct 2013 #1
Exactly! get the red out Oct 2013 #3
I totally agree and it is about as far from the precepts gopiscrap Oct 2013 #4
This is one of those rare moments I wish there was hell so every anti-choicer would burn in it. idwiyo Oct 2013 #2
K & R SunSeeker Oct 2013 #5

gopiscrap

(23,674 posts)
1. this is disgusting what the religious nut cases of the right wing do to people like this.
Thu Oct 31, 2013, 09:37 AM
Oct 2013

My heart goes out to that family and to all who must make such an important reproductive decision.

get the red out

(13,459 posts)
3. Exactly!
Thu Oct 31, 2013, 11:09 AM
Oct 2013

And they would condemn this family for not forcing a baby to be born only to suffer. I think the religious right simply enjoys the suffering of others, there's no other explanation for the things they try to force on this country. They HATE the idea of someone needing assistance to take care of their kids once they are born, they don't want people to be able to have health care, they hate everyone but themselves and try to force the hatred of them into law. Suffering is their calling card, they are like some kind of wicked force that feeds on others' pain and misery.

idwiyo

(5,113 posts)
2. This is one of those rare moments I wish there was hell so every anti-choicer would burn in it.
Thu Oct 31, 2013, 09:49 AM
Oct 2013

I hate every single arsehole, religious or not, who tries to push their fucked "moral values" on others.

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