Murtha or Hoyer as majority leader

[sportschick]

My great-grandmother died because her doctor refused to give her an abortion. My grandmother and her 13 siblings wound up in an orphanage because their father couldn't raise them by himself.

I'm confused. Your great-grandmother died in childbirth? Because of childbirth?

My great-grandmother died because the fetus had died inside of her. Doctor refused to then abort it, choosing not to believe her when she said she hadn't felt the fetus move for a few days, (allegedly) telling her "you just don't want anymore kids." Fetus began to rot inside her, she died from an overload of toxins.

And Boom, it's not as if birth control was readily available in Montana in the '20s.

 

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My great-grandmother died because her doctor refused to give her an abortion. My grandmother and her 13 siblings wound up in an orphanage because their father couldn't raise them by himself.

I'm confused. Your great-grandmother died in childbirth? Because of childbirth?

My great-grandmother died because the fetus had died inside of her. Doctor refused to then abort it, choosing not to believe her when she said she hadn't felt the fetus move for a few days, (allegedly) telling her "you just don't want anymore kids." Fetus began to rot inside her, she died from an overload of toxins.

And Boom, it's not as if birth control was readily available in Montana in the '20s.

That is a horrible story...but wasn't her death the result of poor medical care, rather than abortion laws? In those days, women died just as often (if not more often) from abortions.

 

[sportschick]

The refusal to give her an abortion was poor medical care.

And I don't know the statistics for abortion deaths at the time, although there was a much higher rate for death in childbirth than there is now.

BTW (and very off topic): Love your new sig.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

No, I think I'd rather point out that paste makes a lovely holiday appetizer. Try it on Triscuits!

It's a season where paste has many practical applications.