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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]WinstonSmith4740
(3,056 posts)I was lucky. I wasn't a scared, broke kid who just got dumped by Prince Charming. I was an adult, married, and Roe v Wade was the law of the land. The facility was clean, the staff was supportive, and my husband was waiting for me when I got out. But I heard the horror stories from the women who walked that road ahead of me...and their heartbreak at being left unable to have children in the aftermath.
And that's part of the problem. Young women today don't know anyone who had to go through an illegal procedure. Those nightmare pictures of dead women in a pool of their own blood have long been put away. We've let the right wing, anti-choice loonies control the conversation for over 40 years on this. They've poisoned the minds of 3 generations of young women with their hateful rhetoric. I taught Health in a Title One high school. Most girls today never consider terminating a pregnancy, because it's "murder". They will, however, carry the pregnancy to term, and then throw the baby in the trash. And, of course, the dirty little secret of the anti-choice movement is how many of those women have been on that table themselves.