Must read: St. Peters woman changes deeply held views on abortion after giving birth as a teen

[SpankMe]

https://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/parenting/aisha-sultan/sultan-st-peters-woman-changes-deeply-held-views-on-abortion-after-giving-birth-as-a/article_ef317242-307b-5ffc-82d0-c0d605699041.html

Year 2003, before ACA. Conservative Catholic woman gets pregnant as a teen. Abortion provider urges her to discuss it with her mother before getting the abortion. Mothers forbids daughter from getting abortion and forces teen to have the baby.

Girl has no insurance. Looks everywhere for support and pre-natal care and finds none - even from Catholic charities. Can't qualify for any state assistance for a variety of reasons.

Has to go it alone with vaginal delivery with no anesthesia. (Compassionate nurse secretly provides epidural, but that's the only break the girl gets in this story.)

Has painful, long labor with injuries down below during childbirth. All medical care is rationed and cash only and nearly bankrupts family. Has to pull out her own stiches from the injuries because of no insurance.

Bottom line - goes from Republican, anti-abortion girl to Democratic pro-choice woman. Sings praises of ACA.

Bonus: Ends up keeping her baby - a girl for whom she provided education and birth control when she became a teen - a benefit she didn't get from her parents.

[Thekaspervote]

1. This is the kind of story that needs to be front and center.

No abortions, but be damned if anyone will help her. Where’s the compassion in that?

[Mariana]

5. This story isn't credible.

Go read how epidurals are done. No nurse would ever give a woman an epidural - and even if she did, it would be just about impossible to hide it.

The last thing we need to do is promote stories that contain exaggerations and lies.

[dawg day]

8. Yeah, I had an epidural--

MD anesthesiologist.

It's an injection into the spine, isn't it?
A nurse anesthestist might do it, but just a nurse?

This isn't like a shot in the arm.

[Mariana]

10. It's not just an injection.

I think only a doctor would administer it. According to the American Society of Anesthesiologists:

If you choose to have an epidural, a physician anesthesiologist will insert a needle and a tiny tube, called a catheter, in the lower part of your back. The needle is removed and the catheter left in place for delivery of the medication through the tube as needed.

https://www.asahq.org/whensecondscount/pain-management/techniques/epidural/

This story is bullshit.

[JI7]

2. Most anti abortion people are not really anti abortion. The ones who actually are anti abortion

are a few very very religious types . But they are also against death penalty and just people who spend all of their time on religion .

But the Republican Party mostly uses it to try to make themselves appear moral because of all of their positions which immoral.

[blm]

6. ✔️

[FeelingBlue]

3. This doesn't pass the smell test.

I cannot imagine any nurse giving a laboring woman- or any woman, for that matter- an epidural. No way. And secretly- such that the physician would not notice?! I don’t think so.

Glad things worked out for her after all the suffering.

[Mariana]

4. It would never happen.

It makes me wonder how many other lies there are in this story.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. I've had an epidural.

It's not something that can be done secretly or without everyone else around being aware of it.

[marylandblue]

9. It doesn't say the nurse gave an epidural, only that she gave the consent forms

So it reads to me like the only secret was the consent while the mother was out, then the doctor showed up before the mother came back or something like that.

[yuiyoshida]

11. let me guess

No husband to help out.. who ever did her, should be found and plastered all over the city... his photograph, saying...This man got me pregnant and fled. Now I am a single parent..how is this ever fair??

[mopinko]

12. i had a neighbor

a devout catholic. she was an lpn. she got a job at an abortion clinic.
she had 3 kids when she started. she had 1 more.
now, she didnt make much money, and neither did her hubs.
they lived in a 2 br apt.

she got pregnant again.
yeah, she got an abortion.

[Sanity Claws]

13. ACA Affordable Care Act was enacted 2010

Not 2003 as article claims.
2003 was Bush administration and they did nada regarding health insurance.

Whole article does not sound right.

[Duppers]

14. I agree. nt