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In reply to the discussion: I had an abortion at 7 months pregnant in 1978. [View all]kas125
(2,472 posts)and had been sick all her life, but was the friendliest, funniest person in the world and everyone loved her. Three years ago her kidneys stopped working. She was in a Catholic hospital because it was the closest one when we took her to the ER, she was on dialysis, waiting to find out if she was a candidate for a transplant and they discovered that she was pregnant. Of course she needed an abortion, but they wouldn't do it where she was, the hospital wanted her to travel three hours away to have it done, which was impossible. Her ob/gyn told them that the baby was already dead, when it wasn't. I was in the room when he came in with the monitor to listen to see if there was a heartbeat, which they forced him to do. He turned the volume all the way down on the machine and said to the other doctor in the room, "I don't hear anything, do you?" The other doctor said I hear nothing. He asked me if I heard anything. I said nope, I don't hear anything. He asked my friend if she heard anything, she said no. So they let him do it, but only because nobody could hear the heartbeat. My friend lived a few more months, but died long before the baby would have been born. I was SO glad that doctor did what he did or the last few months of her life would have been a thousand times worse than they were.