Woman tries to have an abortion. Abortion fails. Now woman worried half to death her baby will be born handicapped because of her earlier choice. And that’s supposed to be empowering?
The clinic staff were shocked,” she says. “They said there was a high chance the pregnancy would still miscarry. Horrifyingly, if it continued he was likely to be born handicapped.”
Over the next few days Lucy agonised over what to do.
“It was a terrible decision to make,” she says. “I didn’t think I could cope with bringing up a handicapped child. And I also knew if my baby was born disabled I would never forgive myself.
“But then my baby had survived so much. I had to give him a chance.”
Although Lucy spoke to doctors at the clinic and also her GP, she says no one could give her a clear idea about what might happen with the pregnancy.
She says: “As my GP explained, not enough babies have survived the abortion procedure to know what the side-effects of the pill might be on them.
“But the more I thought about it, the more having another abortion felt like murder.”
I’ll let you chew on that last line by yourself. Meanwhile, make sure you read the story to the end – see anything funny right there at the bottom? Yes! An ad for Marie Stopes! Well done, Sun!
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The sad part (ok, there’s lots that is sad in there) but one sad part is that she really wants the abortion but when it fails she really wants the baby. And I understand that many women who get abortions feel they would be prepared to have a baby just six months down the road (one real life example). Six months. What’s six months in a lifetime? Is it worth killing for?
I clicked Marie stopes and they had an ad for “recession busting vasectomies”?! Bizarro. So many levels of false advertising I can’t even start. Are you no longer in recession with the rest of the world when you can’t reproduce? Who knew? And here I was thinking it was a global thing.
Nicole: I assume the idea is that one time a vasectomy is espicially justified is during a recession, when money is tight. Those with sufficient funds can afford a child, intentional or not, but those without have no such luxury and so an increased incentive to avoid one.
Marie Stopes would approve – she deliberatly marketed to those on low incomes for exactly that reason, viewing those people as most in need of her services.
I suppose a vasectomy could save money in the very long term, if it meant no more need to buy condoms or birth control pills, but I have no idea how much such a procedure costs or what the cost of birth control pills is in the US, so I won’t try to calculate the payback period. I estimate it to be quite long.