My abortion story

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37. AND we need to find more alternatives. MORE ways to provide access to abortion. Because

it's still needed. Women still need that option. Shit happens. And DAMMIT, women STILL need that! We have to get creative.

I read something about an offshore hospital where a woman doctor had set up shop to provide abortions for women whose options were and are steadily being closed down. We need to think of MORE ways in which pregnancy termination is available - whether it's someplace you go, or medication you take, or WHATEVER it is.

WHATEVER.

IT.

IS.

It is URGENT that we stay several steps ahead of these people who've made it their life's work to take our rights away, to take the very sovereignty of OUR BODIES away from us. Because this is an ABSOLUTE. This is NON-NEGOTIABLE.

As we've said about many other issues still oozing like a toxic pustule for years - "We've Already Had This Conversation."

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And I just want to say here that I've read the stories (in this thread and elsewhere) and I am grateful to you, my dear DU sisters, who are sharing these stories. Thank you for including us in your truth, your pain, your fear, your hard-earned experience. I'm grateful you are here to tell the tale. You are beacons of light - and enlightenment. You give the rest of us strength, and the fire and fortitude to fight on. You are inspirations, and the reason we're NOT going to give up this right that we all struggled and fought to win in the first place. We are NOT going to go back.