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Showing Original Post only (View all)"Choice 👏🏼 fucking 👏🏼 matters 👏🏼." [View all]
Sent to me by my sister...
I had just had our fourth baby. I was at my 6 week checkup when I asked for a referral to have my tubes tied. I was 28 and had 4 kids. The doctor told me no. I was too young. What if you want kids later on?
Um. Im done. But what if you divorce and want a baby with your new partner?
Ummmm. Im 28 with 4 kids- IM DONE. Sorry, I just cant in good conscious let you make such an irrational decision when you are so young. I remember going home and telling my husband, that was the strangest appointment Ive ever been too. He told me I wasnt able to decide when I was finished having babies?! I shook it off, not realising the IMPACT that would have on me a mere 20 months later.
Imagine, being in the mentality that you are finished having children, you just attempted to have your tubes tied to be denied, then to find out your pregnant.
Choice 👏🏼 fucking 👏🏼 matters 👏🏼.
Womens 👏🏼 rights 👏🏼 matter 👏🏼
Do you see the irony here? You cant have your tubes tied. You cant have an abortion. You cant you cant you cant you cant....my choice to have a baby matters. My choice to an abortion matters. My choice to have my tubes tied matters. My choice to give up my baby for adoption matters. My choice to use my body as a sacred vessel for surrogacy matters. My choice is also YOUR choice. When one is removed they all are removed.
So, for all the women who are told they are under 30 and unable to have a tubal ligation, then find themselves pregnant and unable to have a legal abortion- I see you.
To all the women who enjoy sex and get pregnant and are unable to have a legal abortion- I see you too.
To the 16 year old girl who had sex ONE TIME without a condom and got pregnant and doesnt have access to a legal abortion- I see you too babe.
Choice. Humans rights. Birth rights.
Consent. Respect. It all matters.
Um. Im done. But what if you divorce and want a baby with your new partner?
Ummmm. Im 28 with 4 kids- IM DONE. Sorry, I just cant in good conscious let you make such an irrational decision when you are so young. I remember going home and telling my husband, that was the strangest appointment Ive ever been too. He told me I wasnt able to decide when I was finished having babies?! I shook it off, not realising the IMPACT that would have on me a mere 20 months later.
Imagine, being in the mentality that you are finished having children, you just attempted to have your tubes tied to be denied, then to find out your pregnant.
Choice 👏🏼 fucking 👏🏼 matters 👏🏼.
Womens 👏🏼 rights 👏🏼 matter 👏🏼
Do you see the irony here? You cant have your tubes tied. You cant have an abortion. You cant you cant you cant you cant....my choice to have a baby matters. My choice to an abortion matters. My choice to have my tubes tied matters. My choice to give up my baby for adoption matters. My choice to use my body as a sacred vessel for surrogacy matters. My choice is also YOUR choice. When one is removed they all are removed.
So, for all the women who are told they are under 30 and unable to have a tubal ligation, then find themselves pregnant and unable to have a legal abortion- I see you.
To all the women who enjoy sex and get pregnant and are unable to have a legal abortion- I see you too.
To the 16 year old girl who had sex ONE TIME without a condom and got pregnant and doesnt have access to a legal abortion- I see you too babe.
Choice. Humans rights. Birth rights.
Consent. Respect. It all matters.
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I find it entirely believable. I've read other stories of the same thing
BlancheSplanchnik
May 2019
#40
Ok. Well, you're talking about the specific situation, I'm generalizing outward.
BlancheSplanchnik
May 2019
#48
Whenever someone w/ the power to say "no" is allowed to, that's "a policy." Absent LAWS to protect
Hekate
May 2019
#33
George W. Bush gave aid and comfort to evangelicals in so many ways. One was "conscience"...
Hekate
May 2019
#49
I wish I could rec this more than once. Women's rights are being eroded day by day.
Arkansas Granny
May 2019
#8
Too many men want forced pregnancies and no child support. Love the fetus & hate the child, again.nt
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2019
#9
back in the 70s heard about a doctor who when asked to tie tubes of a woman
demigoddess
May 2019
#15
2 ways to punish GOP - starting with 3 universities in GA that helped do this and can be protested
certainot
May 2019
#20
yeah, the guy most influential in the country on all such matters has no clue
certainot
May 2019
#35
Any health professional who is not comfortable doing a legal procedure should refer that patient
milestogo
May 2019
#25
Your doctor had the kind of self-righteous bullshit you see in Latin America all the time
sandensea
May 2019
#27
"I can't understand why so many men are fearful of women's reproductive freedom."
WhiskeyGrinder
May 2019
#30