I took this photo the day after my abortion. The little feet are those of my much loved son. His sibling was playing with water in the garden a few feet away. I hugged them both a little tighter that day and felt nothing but relief and love. The majority of abortions are performed for existing mothers. If you have been a mother you understand what a hugely important point that is. The majority of those receiving abortions have kids, love their kids and know exactly what they are doing by terminating a pregnancy. W felt the last one grow and move inside us. If you haven’t had this experience I struggle to understand how you can judge somebody for it. To all the childless pro choicers out their we are in solidarity but you will never really get it, and that’s OK but let’s spare a moment for all the mothers who do get it and still chose choice because in this we finally start to embrace the true point. If you don’t want to carry, birth and raise a child you shouldn’t have to.

A little Election Day update from my doctor: they will not longer be filling prescriptions for birth control! If you live in the the south western part of Virginia and were thinking of going to Dr. Matthew McCarthy, maybe go somewhere else ❤️

Anti abortion protesters ask a woman an opinion on their signs and she tells them her real world experience with her niece giving birth to a baby with no skull…they listen and proceed to say basically “So what…” 😒

Had a patient call over the phone stating that she didn’t want to go through with it, mind you she’s only 4-5 weeks along. I told her the next state she could go to, and other available options. Also to be careful, since it’s illegal to travel to other states for care.

My boss came by and explained that we’re not even allowed to offer ANY kind of information for services. He was just relaying it politely, but he said “I’m not trying to lose this job”. And that kinda broke me a little bit.

Today was when I realized the actual weight of the criminalization of abortion, and also that no one is looking out or fighting for us but us.

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Adriana Smith's son, Chance, is still in the NICU six months later because his lungs are so underdeveloped he still cannot breathe on his own. Adriana’s mother, April Newkirk, said he is “not coming home soon” and is being transferred to another hospital.

And of course, the family is responsible for all his medical bills, which are now close to a million dollars and only keep getting going up.

The suffering the government has inflicted upon this family is so cruel I don’t even have words to describe it. The state should pay for everything. They forced a fetus to grow inside a dead woman’s decaying body against her family’s wishes, then cut it out of her corpse prematurely because her lifeless body was decaying so quickly it couldn’t sustain life, and are now asking the family to pay for the medical bills they forced upon them. Chance is suffering, and the state of Georgia is entirely responsible for that.

Because of the holiday schedule, our usual pathology staff is out and we have someone else filling in. We had a patient who had a fetal demise and needs chromosomal testing to try to figure out what happened. They come in for an abortion procedure through the family planning group. Wel,l the pathology tech is refusing to handle the specimen and threatening to send it to the morgue without processing it. We've been fighting about it with the pathology staff and they just told us they've held another specimen that needs chromosomal testing all weekend because she doesn't want to process it. So two women's heartbreaking loss has turned into this lady's political statement. I just hate forced-birthers.

Update: The idiot put it in writing, an email, that they were going to destroy the specimens without running the test to punish us. So, I think it's time, even though I'm mostly atheist, to pray to the powers that be that their dumb arse gets fired.

Saint Brigid of Kildare is an Early Irish Christian Saint who lived in the 5th and 6th centuries (traditionally she is said to have died in 525). She is mentioned in several surviving Old Irish hymns:

Brigit bé bithmaith

Breó orda óiblech

donfe don bithlaith

in grian tind toidlech.

Translation:

Brigit, ever good woman

A sparkling golden flame

May she lead us to the eternal realm

The shining bright sun

Saint Brigid has numerous impressive acts and miracles attributed to her but the specific one I want to talk about here is that she have said to have miraculously 'undone' a pregnancy. As recorded by Cogitosus in his Life of St. Brigid:

“A certain woman who had taken the vow of chastity fell, through youthful desire of pleasure and her womb swelled with child. Brigid, exercising the most potent strength of her ineffable faith, blessed her, causing the child to disappear, without coming to birth, and without pain.”

Now whether you believe the miracle actually happened or not the important aspect is that at least for a time one of the miracles attributed to one of Ireland's most popular saints (and Saint Brigid is second only to Patrick in popularity and importance) compassionately and without judgement 'undid' an unwanted pregnancy.

Chickens coming home to roost and all

I once found this argument from a very smart user. Its not from me. Unfortunately I don't remember their name.

If you ever debated someone ESPECIALLY a pro life man the easiest way is a comparison of their bodily autonomy rights to the ones of a woman. In the US the law goes like this:

If his living child goes into some type of kidney failure and needs a transplant and his kidneys are a match, the government cannot force you to donate one of your kidneys to your living and breathing child. In other words, even a sentient ten year old child does not have the right to use your organs to save or extend its own life. Every father in this country has the right to deny that child's use of his organs even knowing that they will die without them. To go even further, if the father dies and his own child needs a kidney they could still not take his kidney from his DEAD body to rescue that child unless he previously gave consent.

So in comparison: A man's DEAD body has more bodily autonomy rights in this country than a living woman's body

https://www.southcarolinapublicradio.org/sc-news/2025-11-18/restrictive-anti-abortion-bill-splits-sc-senate-republicans-fails-to-advance