"Traveling for an abortion: What the numbers look like in Colorado as trend expected to increase" Colorado sucks!!.My story as a woman who does not believe in abortion but had to get one: For those who want the very short version:
I believe abortion should be legal but ONLY for rape/incest victims or women who have deadly complications with a pregnancy. I think that teens should only be allowed ONE abortion like a "get out of jail free card" (still murder in my opinion). When I was at Planned Parenthood (see below), there were girls way younger than me getting abortions. I asked 1 of them had she ever had one before. Imagine my shock when she said, "Oh, yeah. I get one every so many months. I've had 13 so far." ABORTION SHOULD NOT BE USED AS A FORM OF BIRTH CONTROL IN MY OPINION.
Long version:
I believe the soul enters a "person" as soon as the sperm & egg connect. Me & one of my other sisters have actually felt a little "electrocution" sometimes when we got pregnant & knew right away. I had a miscarriage at the age of 14 when I had no parental presence.& was having sex with my "boyfriend" (rapist technically, he was older.) I felt no "electrocution" for that pregnancy. My parents abandoned the 4 of us when I was 13.
When I was 18, I got pregnant from the same guy who was by then considered my high-school sweetheart. It was fine, we were both working for Shell Oil Company & money was aplenty. However, I wanted to give it up for adoption & abortion was out of the question. I knew I was too young still.
Birth control, you ask? Telling a teen to abstain from sex is like telling the sun to not shine, especially if you have an older person telling you it's ok (technically called "grooming" by a pedophile). I tried every pill they had, they made me deathly ill. I tried the diaphragm, which is actually what I was using WHEN I got pregnant the 2nd. time. We had the standard Texas shot-gun wedding, literally. Still, no parental presence from my family, only the wicked witch mother-in-law who forced us to marry. Now you know why I'm such a hard-ass.
Six months after my oldest now-psychopath "son" was born in 1978, I got pregnant again. I did not feel when this pregnancy occurred. I found out at a doctor's appointment. He told me right away that I cannot have this baby because something was wrong with my uterus & I "need to get an abortion right away." I adamantly refused. I was still working, but got deathly ill & they put me on mandatory maternity leave. I continued to be deathly ill, totally bedridden, unable to eat or care for my "son."
One day a month or 2 later, I saw death in the corner of my bedroom. I knew I was getting close to dying & still valued the fetus more than my own life. I weighed the value of raising my current child over killing the unborn one. The doctor had told me on that first visit that the baby would be stillborne or have severe disabilities.
I called my then-husband to the room & told him to schedule the abortion at Planned Parenthood in Houston. I had no idea of where to go or go about doing it- my mother-in-law arranged it all. It was a TERRIBLE decision to make. I HATED MYSELF for doing it. It was painful, I don't give a shit WHAT they tell you. I screamed the whole time. After I could stay conscious for more than an hour, we went home.
I was ravenously hungry, must have weighed about 70 pounds at 5'3". We stopped at McDonalds & I had 2 cheeseburgers, fries & a chocolate shake. It was like I was instantly healed. Still to this day, I don't understand it. I'm sure if I did some research, I'd find out that there was some poisonous chemical involved, either made by my body or I was exposed to something. One of my sisters had the pregnancy where her own baby had a different blood type & she had to take shots throughout the entire preganancy to counter-act it.
As for Colorado taking in all the "outsiders" for abortions & with talk of federal funding, AGAIN not for my ass, here's how I feel. Gov. Polis has ALREADY been giving OUR money to the illegals coming here from EVERY DANG WHERE while we, the USA citizens who WORKED for our money & benefits, are getting screwed left & right. If they would keep my benefits the same & they want to throw the politicians' money away for others out of the "goodness of their hearts", feel fuckIng free to do so. But it's not working out that way.
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Denver7 – The Denver Channel
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With the reversal of Roe v. Wade, more people are expected to travel to states like Colorado, where abortion rights are protected, to have the procedure – something that's already been happening here for several years.
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Traveling for an abortion: What the numbers look like in Colorado as trend expected to increase
