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The new abortion ban is anti-family
by Morra Aarons Mele

The new abortion ban is anti-family

I cannot get Ronni Bennett's post about her experience with an abortion before Roe v Wade out of my head.
Ronni wrote:

"I remember it well in my teens and twenties. Not to be too graphic about it, imagine sticking a wire coat hanger up your vagina and poking around with it through excruciating pain and bloodletting risking failure and a mangled embryo or fetus, infection and hemorrhage. Some died."

Another haunting voice I hear is that of a caller into the Diane Rehm show on NPR the other day. He spoke so movingly about his family's struggle with infertility. His wife had 3 miscarriages and one stillborn. Her last pregnancy lasted 6 months until the doctors discovered the baby had Trisomy 13, a fatal condition. As the man described it, his wife had IDX, or a late term, intact abortion. He said it was so so important to this grieving couple: they needed to hold their baby, grieve it, mourn it.

Under this new ruling, this grieving couple would not have such an option.