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Nice.
I think in the past (and I'm old enough to remember), both abortion and miscarriage carried a self-imposed shame/shunning silencing.
But now, people are not ashamed to talk about it. And those stories are surfacing, even in people's own circles. When someone hears a story of a wanted pregnancy that goes wrong, and the young mother's case of near-death sepsis as well as the damage to carrying future pregnancies--people will catch on.
These dogs have caught the car they were chasing. I wish it didn't include the collateral damage to young families, but here we are. I hope people get to the ballot box with these stories in their heads. We should make sure of it....
The shame was really hiding how commonplace miscarriages were. These sometimes need to be fixed with abortion services. It's pretty common healthcare that people have latched onto for odd political reasons
I can understand that some people don't want to discuss private health matters. And those folks who have been trying to conceive but have trouble--talking about the yet-another-miscarriage has to be incredibly wrenching and hard.
But those stories are crucial to hear right now, I'm afraid. I think the mainstream Republican isn't even aware that this went on.
Women have always knows and just starting to talk up about it or we are finally listening. I get it's hard to talk about sad personal things. Now is the time for people to know the whole truth about this
A lot of people didn't even consider those as abortions before. Now they have to face the reality they've brought in, that abortion doesn't mean taking a newborn and tossing them into a wood chipper. It's a ton of medical treatments, and people tried to compromise for years by allowing carve outs for all but the most elective of abortions.