Mike Pence: A Personal Story
Emily Figdor
MoveOn.org
July 20, 2016
With Mike Pence poised to take the stage tonight to accept the GOP nomination for
vice president, I can't stop thinking about a bill he signed into law just months ago as governor of Indiana.
The bill makes abortion illegal in the case of fetal abnormalities.
You see, a little less than six years ago, I was newly pregnant with twins; when my doctor told me that one of the fetuses had Trisomy 18 - a genetic disorder that affects nearly every organ system in the body.
Half of babies born with the disorder die within their first week of life, the median lifespan is five to fifteen days.
There is a high risk of miscarriage or stillbirth with Trisomy 18 - which would put my other twin at risk, since I could go into labor very early or face other serious complications.
After my doctor explained my options and the risks, I made an anguished but clear decision to have a "selective reduction" - an abortion of the fetus with Trisomy 18,
which would have been illegal under Pence's law - to save my baby.
About seven months later, I delivered a healthy, nearly 9 pound baby girl.
My daughter is now five years old.
She is strong, kind and sings constantly.
I don't even want to think about what might have happened to her under Mike Pence's vision for America
If you think Trump & Pence can't win, I beg you to take them seriously.
In addition to being a very proud mom, I'm a political junkie and a campaign director at MoveOn.
I've been pouring over the polls, and they are not looking good.
Of the last five national polls released this week, all five were within the margin of error
- meaning it's a tight race.
Pence has said, "I long for the day Rowe v Wade is sent to the ash heap of history."
And that's not all.
In addition to rabidly opposing abortion rights, Pence thinks that women who work cause their children to have "stunted emotional growth."
When he was in Congress, he sponsored the first bill to defund Planned Parenthood -
and then he continued to push for the legislation year after year.
So it's no surprise that Pence is the vice presidential pick for the man who once said:
"Women, you have to treat them like shit."
For my daughter - and for girls and women everywhere - we must stop these two dangerous men from getting to the White House.
Emily Figdor
"Help Expose and Defeat Mike Pence"
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Tweet, forward, post this over and over again, people!!!
This man has been horrible for Indiana. Imagine what he will do to the country. 
