WI Lawmakers:

My personal/religious views on abortion, and yours, are irrelevant. Your job is to practice your religion, not to legislate it. I thought Republicans believed in small government and privacy? No, obviously not. Are we on our way to the Evangelical version of “Sharia Law?” Obviously, yes.

Perhaps you are unaware that there are as many reasons as there are women for seeking abortion.

I have a friend in Kentucky who found that she was carrying a terribly malformed fetus that was unlikely to live more than a few moments after birth. She & her husband were grief stricken and decided to have an abortion – and, you want to add another roadblock to such a tragic journey?

Rape victims (about 32,000/year get pregnant) often have vaginal damages, tears, rips, cuts, bruising, as well as having been beaten and bruised over their entire bodies. Sometimes they are raped with metal and wooden objects. Sometimes their hair is pulled out in chunks.

Rape victims spend hours in the ER doing a rape kit – in agony. They have to take a toxic HIV anti-viral series and perhaps other medications. They may have to take psychiatric medication, in addition to any other medication they were on. Young girls get raped as well as adult women. Women continue to suffer PTSD months after a rape. And, now a trans-vaginal ultrasound, if they get pregnant and want an abortion?

Many dozens, if not hundreds of the mental health patients I worked with (as a psychiatric social worker) over the years were incest victims. Do you really expect girls and women who have a variety of mental disorders, maybe living with an abuser, are often suicidal, often engaging in a wide variety of self-destructive acts to now have an ultra-sound and identify the baby parts?

Did you know that a young girt whose father has been ramming his penis down her throat and up her vagina since she was 10 years old may have a “gagging” sensation every time she is anxious for the rest of her life? She may now be 18 and taking a number of medications – and, you want to put another road block in her way to getting an abortion should she get pregnant? Shame!

I hope you are aware that women also have abortions for a wide variety of medical, personal, social and, yes, financial reasons. This may seem so trivial to you well-fed folks. But, I have seen children going hungry and it is not something I want to see again. Research shows that young women never recover from early pregnancy and parenthood. Never.

Anti-choice lawmakers, there are a thousand things you are unaware of in your ignorant assumptions about selfish women who just want to pursue their careers or private lives. Women with careers can afford children, BTW.

Shame on anyone who votes to put roadblocks in the way of access to abortion! Practice your religion; don’t legislate it!

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