Arkansas Senate passes bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks

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38. that's terrible!

When I went to the doctor, he did a vaginal ultrasound which showed the baby head down without a heartbeat. He turned off the screen and just walked out for a minute. I was terrified and in shock from seeing my dead baby like that. He called the hospital to schedule an emergency DNC to take out the fetus, but I had to wait for 3 days before having the procedure. I couldn't imagine being forced to carry a dead baby for as long as that lady had to. 3 days was hard enough.


Ironically, the hospital filed my paperwork to medicaid wrong because the doctor would not give a due date or gestation period before termination. I called the doctor to find out what was wrong and his nurse told me that he didn't know how long I had been pregnant so he could not give a due date. The doctor waived his fees, but I paid on the hospital fees for years. I wonder now if he was afraid to have been associated with an abortion, even though it was an emergency and the fetus was dead.