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This person should have had a discussion with my former mother-in-law, she could have told him how back in Ceausescu's time she had to ride the train back to he
by paganel 6y ago
This person should have had a discussion with my former mother-in-law, she could have told him how back in Ceausescu's time she had to ride the train back to her home town (returning from Bucharest) with a piece of cotton wool between her legs, which piece of cotton wool had become all red because of the blood once she had reached her destination. All that because she had just had an illegal abortion in Bucharest, her home town was too small for that and everybody knew everybody, she could have gone to jail if word had come out.
Or I could tell this person my story from approximately 25 years ago, I was going through my parents' papers/files for whatever reason (as bored adolescents do from time to time) only to find a paper signed by the former Communist Police (I was doing all that in the '90s, after Ceausescu's fall) which was informing my mother that the official police inquiry about her having had a possible abortion was stopped. Yey! No risk of my mum going to jail! Of course that my mother had never told me about that (she still hasn't, in the meantime), I tried to put one and one together and connect that time when she was interned in the local hospital supposedly with pneumonia with maybe her having had an abortion then, I guess I'll never know for sure.
All this to say that trying to ban abortions (supposedly by criminalising it, I don't see any other way) is worse than criminal, it's inhuman. And if people like the person who wrote this blog-post would have bothered to actual ask the women themselves what they think (I mean, the women who actually had abortions in the first place) he might have learned what my ex-MIL told me and my former wife numerous times, i.e. that she constantly had nightmares about having done them.
- rhn_mk1 6y agoYou haven't read the article. The author clearly states they do not hold that position, and that they wanted to highlight that the other side has some valid arguments too. It's in the title!