Bobbi Wilson, aged 9, keen scientist, invented a bug spray for invasive lantern fly & was trying it out to save the trees near her NJ home when the police were called on a ‘little Black woman’ walking & spraying, said they were ‘scared’. Today thanked by Yale for her collection.
@MarlenaStell Marlena, your experience is both heartbreaking and infuriating. I miscarried at 8 weeks in 1975. 1975! The d&c was done with no question or hesitation.Legally I had a spontaneous abortion. I am livid at the callous treatment of women in 2022. This must not stand.
@MarlenaStell In CA. When I miscarried, my doctor scheduled for a D&C for in 2 days. I couldn’t stop sobbing and thought I would never stop. Having a D&C allowed me to start the healing process. I can’t imagine the mental damage if I was forced to carry my dead baby for weeks.
@MarlenaStell So sorry for your loss and ordeal. Everyone wants to talk about “rape and incest” but more people need to speak up about medical conditions like this or ectopic pregnancies
@mhsbass@MarlenaStell This is the whole point.
She miscarried and had to defend herself from accusations she might have aborted.
She had to PROVE she didn't abort when she was in physical and emotional pain.
This is the whole point.
@MarlenaStell Please, accept my condolences for you situation, while also indulging me a clarification: if the baby is already miscarried, is it really an abortion?
In CA, so I don't know the TX law, but it seems to me that a miscarriage isn't an abortion.
A politician tells you have to for “proof”, it’s incredibly violating. I had to hear the same news 3 times “sorry for your loss”. Why put women through that multiple times and make her feel like she’s in the wrong for what happened???
To add salt to my wounds, I was required to multiple ultrasounds to “prove” that I indeed miscarried and wasn’t lying. When you’re early in your pregnancy your ultrasound is a transvaginal one, which on its own is already uncomfortable. But being required to have multiple because
Oh and here’s my 2 year old baby girl who has her mom still alive because I FOUGHT to get the care I needed. I will NOT let a government decide whether I can get care I need to stay healthy and ALIVE.
Entering the clinic, I was yelled at and told I was a “baby killer” from total strangers who didn’t even know why I was there or what I was going through. Because these strangers thought their opinions mattered more than my own health and well being.
Instead of allowing me to grieve my loss, I had to fight for 2 weeks to get care which I eventually got at an abortion clinic and not a hospital. The clinic gave me the care I was denied by doctors. And while
Hoping I didn’t go septic. My pain got worse and I was scared. I begged to get a D&C and was still told no. Because politicians who have no right to butt into my healthcare needs decided their say so was more important than MINE.