Hey Cnn its pro CHOICE not pro abortion

[Hekate]

8. I've changed. After 50 years of carefully saying I'm "pro-choice," Dobbs radicalized me

I’d already been paying attention to how the RW started changing definitions of contraceptions, and how ghastly the implications of personhood laws are for women using fertility clinics.

But when they started calling procedures “abortion” that I know to have been standard of care in obstetrics since my mother and her friends were having babies and miscarriages in the late 1940s and onward — that just gut-punched me in a very personal way. I have written about how rough my Mom had it giving birth to us 4 in the Baby Boom years. In addition to us, she had two miscarriages that almost killed her and one full term still birth. In college I knew a woman who had an ectopic pregnancy — and those are fatal if not removed very quickly. In my young married years I had a friend who was 4 months along when a routine exam with her OB-GYN revealed a very fast-growing cancer that needed specialized surgery (complete hysterectomy, ovaries, everything out) in another state — I was shocked that some idiot woman actually asked me whether they couldn’t “save the baby.” And on and on in the world of women.

So, thanks all to hell, SCOTUS — I feel very clarified on the subject. I now have no doubts in my mind that abortion is health care. You have come for my mother and my friends. I AM PRO-ABORTION NOW, thanks to the RW in this country.