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In reply to the discussion: I opened the bathroom door and found my roommate's girlfriend in a pool of blood [View all]dawnie51
(959 posts)I watched my mother be carried unconscious from my grandmothers home, after nearly bleeding out from an abortion provided by a friend of hers who was in med school. She was driven by the young physician on call, who took one look at her and wouldn't wait for the ambulance to arrive. She was a breath from dying in my grandmothers upstairs bedroom. My grandmother had to fight with detectives who showed up at the Catholic hospital to interrogate my mom; they wanted a name, and she wouldn't give it. My grandmother pitched a fit until they left. Many years later, as a young married woman with her first pregnancy, I went to the gynecologist, and it was the very same doctor who had carried my mother to the hospital. He remembered her, after almost 20 years, and asked if she was well. A good man, and my family owed him a great debt.