My Abortion Story

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20. My dear late father-in-law had an experience like that.

He was a doctor - the kind that made you think of TV’s kindly old “Marcus Welby” decades ago. Even kinda looked like him.

He told a story about being out driving somewhere locally when he spotted a girl slumped on the sidewalk. He went to check on her and found she was hemorrhaging right there on the pavement. He quickly assessed that she’d had a back alley abortion and was literally bleeding to death. He gathered her up and put her in the back of his car and drive her straight to the hospital.

He didn’t say what happened to her but what he did say was the clincher. This distinguished city elder who was politically conservative and voted Republican had a change of heart, having seen her plight. He said that incident convinced him that abortion should be safe and legal. And done in a certified medical facility.

I had a rather remarkable father-in-law.