Villamor has had two abortions. She’s one of four Utah women who recently shared their abortion stories with The Salt Lake Tribune.
She added, “Nobody takes it lightly. ... It’s a heavy decision,” and “you can’t pass a law ... that could possibly encompass every different situation.” At first, doctors thought the pain might be from heartburn or her gallbladder. After testing in the emergency room, “a doctor came in and said, ‘The best case scenario is that you have hepatitis.’”Finally, doctors determined Smith had a severe variant of preeclampsia called HELLP syndrome.
“Looking back at it,” Smith said, “it’s really easy for me to say, ‘Well, I didn’t really have any choice.’ … My situation was very clear cut. I was absolutely going to die.” She added, “I don’t want to die. I have kids. I have a husband. I have a life.” At the same time, “I don’t feel like I should be deprived of a healthy, fulfilling relationship with my husband because I can’t use birth control.”, would allow exceptions for abortions for the life and health of the pregnant woman.
Villamor was 21 at the time. She was “working at some really crappy diner, and life was not great,” she said. “I was drinking a lot.” She was also “wrapped up into a relationship” with an older, married man. “You feel guilty,” she said, “like … I was so irresponsible and now this is happening. … But what is the alternative? I’m going to traumatize this small person, is the alternative. And I don’t want that, either.”
When Villamor had her second abortion in 2015, she had been using “the pull-out method” with a long-term partner who didn’t want to have children. Villmaor feels lucky, she said, that she didn’t “have that difficult a time” getting an abortion. She could tell her family and friends, without having “to worry about getting shunned in my community or my church or whether I had to come up with the money for it.”
The family was quickly shuffled over to a genetic counselor, who went over a list of possibilities. It was overwhelming, trying to focus on her boys and their needs, while taking in all this information, Earl said. After getting some genetic testing done, Earl learned her baby had Trisomy 13.
Too bad I can’t read any of your articles! 😒
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Are they saying is if we allow abortions for rape, incest, or where the mother’s life is endanger, they are fine with all other abortion bans? They would say no. This is a straw man argument
There isn’t any reasonable person that says if the woman life is endanger, not to allow them to have an abortion.
The only people more morally callous than these women are the men who encourage abortion for their own convenience.
Pro-life folks desperately need to be seen as good people to the point they clearly demonstrate they are deeply depraved with zero concern for the women we enjoy in our lives. They are posers. No one should be impressed.
“Less important than” - even this isn’t true. In the situation of abortion, one life WILL die, the other life will change to adapt to the choice that they have already made. There’s no equivalency here, we must protect the life that is about to be snuffed out by selfish choice.
I'll bet the one with green hair has very conservative views.
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