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In reply to the discussion: I had an abortion at 7 months pregnant in 1978. [View all]Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)She was a youth counselor and very religious both her and her husband. She got pregnant in her early twenties and the baby stopped moving. The doctor refused to take the baby out and she got a life threatening infection. When the doctor finally did deliver the dead fetus it was too late to save her ability to have children. That almost ruined her marriage. It did cause her a whole lot of pain over not being able to have children. It also somehow messed up her hormones for life so she was on medication for that, probably depression too, although she didn't disclose that. The whole reason it came up is she asked me about my homework and I was doing an essay on abortion so she told me her story to give me some real life perspective on the issue. She didn't just tell this to a bunch of teenagers.