Donald Trump has a pretty warped idea of what women
going through late term abortion actually experience.
During the last debate with Hillary Clinton, he claimed
in graphic, sensationalist terms that ‘you can take the baby and rip the baby
out of the womb in the ninth month, on the final day.’
‘That’s not acceptable,’ he
said.
Many people watching were sickened by the way Trump made
it seem women were callously aborting babies at full term, when actually ate
term abortion (i.e. after 20 weeks, or five months) is a heartbreaking decision
taken very rarely and generally only taken for health reasons.
Alyson Draper knows more than most people what the
reality is.
Having a late term abortion ‘was the worst moment in my
life,’ she said.
Alyson Draper
on Wednesday
I HAD A LATE TERM ABORTION. IT IS NOTHING LIKE DESCRIBED
BY TRUMP. PLEASE DON'T BASE YOUR VOTE ON THE FEAR MONGERING HE IS DOING. PLEASE
READ MY EXPERIENCE:
I had to have a late term abortion. It was the worst
moment in my life. What made it even worse was the State of Utah had made it
illegal.
I had one dead twin. The other had severe Spina Bifida.
It was so bad that his brain had developed outside his head, and his spine was
open clear to the lumbar level. There was ZERO hope, and no medical miracle
that could save him. Our dreams were shattered. These twins were from IVF. I
was forty, and there would be no more pregnancies.
I lay on the hospital floor, bawling hysterically, for
twelve hours, waiting for an ethics committee of the health care corporation to
decide my case justified what had to be done. My health was in danger due to
the dead fetus. My husband and I consulted our LDS Bishop, who assured me I
needed to do what I had to do, that it was even within LDS guidelines to do so.
He reminded me I had six kids (a blended family) at home who needed their
mother to live.
The abortion was terrible. It was done very gently, by
Caesarean section, leaving the babies in their amniotic sacs. The living baby
passed very quickly.
It was horrific. I think it even affected my dear
physician, as he had never had to end a pregnancy before. I developed PTSD for
which I had to be treated for years, mostly because of the fact I had to have
it at all.
No woman should have to have the state have a say in the
most painful decision she will ever make. Nobody is tearing babies apart in
late term. They are always humanely done, only in situations where there is a
non-viable or severely defective fetus and/or the mother's health is at risk.
Please don't vote for a candidate or a party that would
make these decisions for the women who will die or be forced to carry unviable
fetuses to term. This is a decision that is so painful and so terrible. Only
the parents of the baby and a physician should be involved in the decision.
She and her husband desperately wanted a child of their
own, to raise along with the six they had from previous relationships.
So when they managed to conceive using IVF, they were
delighted and looking forward to welcoming their new arrival.
Then they were given the dreadful news.
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