I think we need to talk

[Racygrandma]

Yes I am 67, had a bumpy road in life. The latest news about overturning Roe vs Wade affects me a lot . I made a decision after my first daughter at the age of 30, I should not have any more children. This was so hard, to talk about even now, such a private issue, if I say everything then is would affect my daughter and that is the last thing I want to do. People have no idea what we go through, not a clue. I call it the perfect gene pool syndrome. I know there are A LOT of people out there that are just like me, can not go public but are very much pro choice. Check with me later because I do need to add details about my story.

[Skittles]

1. a deeply personal decision

that should NOT involve the government

[Racygrandma]

2. There is so much more to this story

they can not come out without affecting people they love so much. It has been a rough road, we need to get these people to VOTE these guys out.

[onecaliberal]

3. You're not alone.

[snowybirdie]

4. I think most

women here have abortion stories. Theirs or loved ones or friends. We all can understand the ramifications of this decision last night. You're not alone in your history.

[Racygrandma]

6. There has got to be a way

To get these people to come out without spilling their guts. A way to reach out to them without the guilt trips. because these pro life people are good at guilt trips, because that is their game guilt trips. I watched MSNBC and Chris Hayes was talking about the coming famine in Ukraine and then shortly after the Supreme court story came out. The coming famine was buried. We have a lot of people who can understand this issue at a very deep level, we just have to figure out how to reach them.

[Delphinus]

5. Welcome to DU!

A safe place for us to talk.

[haele]

7. When I was growing up, we had a neighbor mom of 5 who was constantly in pain.

It was hard for her to bend over, she was always running to the bathroom, she was exhausted.
All the neighbors would help her out when they could, my brother and I worked on their yard for her and her kids had to learn to cook and clean for her.
The dad - well, he was a typical 1960's era middle class dad who expected her to care for the house while he went to work.
Apparently, child #3 was a complicated delivery. And two subsequent children made it worse.
I knew her for 6 years, then I graduated high school and went off to the Navy.
Two years later, she o.d.'ed on pain pills a week after her youngest graduated high school and started getting ready for college. She just couldn't take the pain any more, and there was no one left at home to help her.

If she had the ability to choose abortion or even to manage her own fertility, she might be a happy great grandmother.

I also knew a young sailor whose wife passed during childbirth. She was a small woman, with medical problems. They just were stationed in a location where there were no hospitals or clinics that performed abortions nearby, and they took a chance - and lost.

Choice and access are important.

Haele