EatTheRich
President
I don't know. I never will. Indeed, although 1 in 3 women will have an abortion, the rest of us will never know what it is like. And not knowing can lead people to make cruel political choices without thinking about how cruel they are. That's why I think we are lucky that Jex Blackmore, chapter director of the Satanic Temple Detroit, created a blog to record what she went through when she experienced an unwanted pregnancy.
Of course not every woman's experience getting an abortion will be the same as Ms. Blackmore's. However, all in all from the way she describes it it appears pretty typical. She had a medical (i.e., medication-induced, as opposed to surgical) abortion, like about 3 in 5 patients in the U.S. She was lucky enough to live in a state that places relatively few restrictions on access to abortion, although as she points out getting an abortion in Michigan was still unnecessarily time-consuming, costly, and difficult. As far as I can tell, the most unusual aspect of her abortion was her public discussion of it.
You can visit her blog at www.crisispregnancymichigan.com
Of course not every woman's experience getting an abortion will be the same as Ms. Blackmore's. However, all in all from the way she describes it it appears pretty typical. She had a medical (i.e., medication-induced, as opposed to surgical) abortion, like about 3 in 5 patients in the U.S. She was lucky enough to live in a state that places relatively few restrictions on access to abortion, although as she points out getting an abortion in Michigan was still unnecessarily time-consuming, costly, and difficult. As far as I can tell, the most unusual aspect of her abortion was her public discussion of it.
You can visit her blog at www.crisispregnancymichigan.com