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In reply to the discussion: Being pro-life doesn’t make me any less of a lefty [View all]Demsrule86
(68,556 posts)Yes it does make you less a lefty because you wish to restrict other's freedom to make their own choices...you don't have the right. I have never had an abortion and maybe I don't even like abortion (who really does) but every woman has the right to make such choices for herself...and contraception is expensive and the GOP wants to make it less available...these personhood bills would eliminate the pill and the IUD. You are not a lefty and stop calling yourself one. I feel strongly about this as victim of the pro-life movement...I had a miscariage in Georgia...my doctor was pro-life and waited for blood work...even though ultrasounds showed nothing remained of my baby...I went to him the last day and told him I felt very badly...he told me to go home and wait...that night I hemorraged on my kitchen floor...thankfully my eight year old called 911 or I would not be here...I was taken to the hospital and placed in a room in the ER where my doctor (if you could call him that) asked for a rush on the blood work..and let me lay there in a puddle of my own blood...mostly unconscious and just for the record ...loss of blood is a lousy way to die. Thankfully my husband who was out of town made it to the hospital in time..he found me unconscious in a gurney soaked in blood and began screaming...He fied the doctor on the spot and told the hospital...get someone now...they did and I was rushed to emergency surgery...where I received blood and platelets..and spent several weeks in the hospital...my doctor who could not remember my name but held my life in his hands came to visit and to tell me how sorry he was but I needed to understand the importance of life...damn him...he needed to understand the importance of life...my life. He finished by telling me I would have other children..but of course I had been rendered infertile thanks to his lack of care so there would be no more children for me...a simple D&C done after the ultrasound would have prevented all of this...what people don't understand is that pro-choice is about a woman's health as well as the right to choose and without such a law to stop the doctors like mine. Consider that if abortion was illegal in Georgia at that time...I woudl have died as no doctor would have been able to treat me. Women will die if Roe is overturned, and if we don't stop the assault on abortion rights at the state level.