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Imagine this. Youre 22 yrs old, 19wks & 5 days pregnant with your first baby. You go to your appointment to reveal the gender, but not only do you find out your baby is a boy, you’re hit with some life altering news.
You find out he has cysts throughout both kidneys preventing urine production which essentially restricts lung development. You’re told, if you carry the baby full term and deliver, he will be alive up until he tries to take his very first breath.
You’re 22 yrs old and told you can burry your first born child or you can decide in the next 24 hrs to terminate the pregnancy (after 20 wks abortion was no longer an option). You spend the next 24 hrs trying to decide what is the right thing to do.
After weighin out the situation u decide to end the pregnancy bc watching ur child suffer while attempting to take his first breath, filling out a death certificate moments after u watch the life leave his innocent body, & burring your tiny human under the ground....
would destroy you more as a mother than choosing to terminate a life that never even had a standing chance of survival. Can you imagine?
Well I had to make that decision. 3 yrs ago, I chose to have an abortion to save my baby the suffering that would come upon him the second he left my body. I made that decision bc it was the best thing for myself, for my mental health, and for my baby.
I made that decision. No one else did. And if I didn’t make that decision, I would have never gave birth to the beautiful daughter I have today. I would have mourned the death of my first child and never want to potentially put myself in that position again.
But bc I was given that option, I stood proudly with my pro-choice views &I regret nothing of my actions.
I still to this day think about that baby &what he’s be like if he were to have given the chance to be healthy, but I have my daughter to look at everyday&be thankful for the health she was blessed with.
So you can have your own thoughts and opinions about the topic of abortion. You’re entitled to your own opinions. But in the eyes of any woman who has gone thru this or even worse, been raped.. having this option is something our justice system should always offer.
I will forever be pro-choice and feel for any woman who has been criticized for her CHOICE of having a child or not.
