What courage looks like – […] “the reason I’m here is to make sure that I’m doing my part to make sure my daughters have access to proper healthcare and rights to their own bodies. As their mother, I owe them that.”
When my husband and I had children we always agreed to be open and honest with our kids. When we ended up having two daughters, my husband informed me that “those talks” were all mine. I’ve always been pretty open about women’s rights and at an early age they had probably heard me rant and rave about things they probably shouldn’t have but looking back on it, I’m so glad they did.
They’re 8 and 10 now and about one year ago they asked me what an abortion was. At first, I didn’t want to tell them anything. I didn’t want to tell them the process of an abortion. They’d never understand. They’d get the wrong idea about what it is because they’re kids. There’s no way they could really process that information. Then I thought back and no one in my family talked to me about periods, pregnancy or…
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February 7, 2016 at 1:13 pm
carmen
Read that the other day. Doesn’t that just take your breath away — the fact that women seeking abortions need ESCORTS to get to the clinics??? All the more reason that the procedure should be done in hospitals, just like any other medical procedure.
Although, here in NS nurses can opt for another assignment if they find out they are assisting at an abortion. :(
. . .sigh. . talk about impediments . .
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February 7, 2016 at 1:21 pm
The Arbourist
@Carmen
Opposition to women fully realizing their autonomy and full human being status is everywhere, but nowhere (*nowhere*) is this foolish intransigence demonstrated so keenly as at medical facilities that provide reproductive services.
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February 7, 2016 at 1:28 pm
carmen
I have a daughter who is a Midwife – need I say more?
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February 10, 2016 at 4:46 pm
syrbal-labrys
I’ve had the dubious joy of explaining to a fully grown man that perishingly few abortions are what he was taught by his fundamentalist mother: late term partial birth abortions! It was quite the revelation to him that most abortions involved a tablespoon of pretty undifferentiated tissue.
I also told him that my own ex-d-i-l did have one of those rarities, at post 20 weeks, an abortion under complete anesthesia on her own request. This was because her health care providers refused her pre-natal care repeatedly, and then belatedly discovered a birth defect that would have resulted in six more months of misery and a dead infant. I asked him if he really still thought what he’d been taught “The only choice a woman should get about pregnancy is crossing her legs!” was the solution.
I am sickened that in the 21st century this is STILL a fight we are needing to fight. In a world with seven and a half billion people, still!
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February 10, 2016 at 6:52 pm
The Arbourist
@Syrbal
The audacity of dudes when it comes to the control of woman’s bodies. :( One would think that something as basic as bodily autonomy wouldn’t be so damn contentious.
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