Reply #32: This makes me sick :( [View All]

[rebecca_herman]

I remember an editorial I read a while back by a woman who had a late term abortion, she had difficulty finding a doctor to do it and getting insurance to pay for it, she did have the procedure in the end but had to travel pay for it herself. She had no living children, desperately wanted to become a mother, and the fetus she was carrying had 100% lethal deformities and would have died immediately at birth. As a result of the fetus's terribly malformed condition there was something wrong with the placenta and how it was attached, and her doctors felt that if she carried to term (about 4 more months) it would only get worse and she would likely have to have a hysterectomy and never be able to try again for a healthy baby. It's already difficult to get a procedure covered in those circumstances and it sickens me that it could become even more difficult.