Mormon Mom Has An Abortion Story Donald Trump Needs To Hear

[moonshaz]

After hearing Donald Trump speak scornfully (and dishonestly) about late-term abortions during the final presidential debate, one woman has come forward with her own story about how she made the difficult and heartbreaking decision to end her pregnancy.

Alyson Draper, a corporate attorney from Midway, Utah, took to Facebook to make sure people

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[sabrinita]

..oh that cat gif is perfect

[moonshaz]

Thanks! I fell in love with it the moment I saw it. I was so pissed at that point and it just said exactly what I was feeling.

[scolaro]

Mormon Mom Has An Abortion Story Donald Trump Needs To Hear

It wouldn't matter. The man couldn't care less about real people and their problems. He's all about sound bytes and whatever helps him personally.

“I had always been firmly in the category that I would die before I would abort a baby or a fetus, that was something I never saw doing, and I was disapproving of women who did so,” she said. “But afterward, I thought how unethical it is to judge another woman for doing that, because you never know what the circumstances are.”

Probably going to get flak for this, but I also don't understand how you can judge people going through something like this, and only feel compassion when you are/were affected personally. Not just in this case, but also concerning gay rights, poverty etc.

[eveofrevolution]

[moonshaz]

All of this.

[firebunny]

I'm not sure if it's a lack of compassion as much as it's all the lies that the anti-reproductive-rights people spew, from the "Abortion Industry" to "babies being ripped from the womb." She probably couldn't see the lies as lies until she was there experiencing it.

[halfshellvenus]

One of the saddest stories I've ever read was about a woman who had an abortion at 38 weeks, without ever thinking that would be necessary. There were several earlier points that indicated there might be a problem, but doctors really couldn't be sure, so she took the more optimistic outlook. Even when it appeared that the baby had some physical deformities, she held on, because those were cosmetic issues and she felt she could help her child cope with them. It wasn't until very late term that the doctors felt they were seeing a precursor to what would amount to the baby having difficulty breathing, and only living a few, terrible days.

We don't believe in euthanasia for babies, and it isn't legal once the baby is born. This can make late-term abortion the only choice for a women trying to give her baby a "good death" when she can't give it a good life. What an awful situation to be in.

Dr. Jen has a lot of well-thought-out things to say about late-term abortions, for any reason, that are worth thinking about.