As I write this, it is 1:17 am on Wednesday, 20 June 2012.
I am lying awake in bed, trying to decide whether or not to have an abortion.
Of course, we don’t call it an abortion. We call it a procedure
or a D&C. See, my potential abortion is one of the good abortions. I’m 31 years old. I’m married. These days, I’m pretty well off. I would very much like to stay pregnant right now. In fact, I have just spent the last year — following an earlier miscarriage — trying rather desperately to get pregnant.
Unfortunately, the doctors tell me that what I am now pregnant with is not going to survive. Last week, I had an ultrasound, I was almost 6 weeks along and looked okay. The only thing was that the heartbeat was slow. It wasn’t a huge deal. Heartbeats start slow, usually around the 6th week, and then they speed up. But my doctor asked me to come back in this week for a follow up, just to be sure. That was Tuesday, yesterday. Still my today. The heart hasn’t sped up. The foetus hasn’t grown. The egg yolk is now bigger than the foetus, which usually indicates a chromosomal abnormality. Basically, this foetus is going to die. I am going to have a miscarriage. It’s just a matter of when — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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