For Every Woman Who Dies In Childbirth In The U.S., 70 More Come Close

Elvira said:

Strawman...many women want to have children so I'm sure they are included in those numbers...:roll:

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Scrabaholic said:

I don't believe anyone said they weren't.

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FutureIncoming said:

FALSE. Abortion actually is, and should continue to be, an option for women who want kids. Just because a woman might want kids doesn't mean pregnancy can't make her so ill she cannot tolerate it.

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Correct.

Sometimes women who want to have children and whose pregnancy was a welcome event find the pregnancy is either threatening their health or the health of the unborn and they have to make to the very difficult decision to terminate their pregnacy.

These are very sad cases since they wanted very much to have a child and intentionally became pregnant only to find out that something went very wrong with the pregnancy and she no longer could continue with the pregnancy.

Elvira said:

Strawman...many women want to have children so I'm sure they are included in those numbers...:roll:

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Yes, they are included in those numbers. I became very ill from pregnancy complications with my first pregnancy. So ill that my kidneys were damaged but I wanted our child and I knew if I died giving birth my husband would love and care for our child so I continued the pregnancy. I was so anemic when it was time to birth that my doctor had a complete blood transfusion ready in the delivery room in case I lost too much blood. When they wheeled me into the delivery room I did not know if I would live to see our baby.

Between our second and third child I had 2 miscarriages. The first one early on about 5 or 6 weeks gestation.
During the second miscarriage I was about 20 weeks pregnant when my little one died within my womb.

My husband and I were hoping for a healthy pregnancy and heathy little one as an addition to our family.

I went into what I thought was an early labor so my husband took me the ER hoping to stop the contractions so I hopefully could carry the pregnancy longer and have a healthy little one.

When the ER nurse took the pregnancy test she told us I was no longer pregnant ourlittle one had died within me.

My doctor was out of town and the doctor covering for him did not want to come in that night so he scheduled a D and E abortion to remove the dead fetus for the next day and ordered a shot to stop the contractions. Then the nurses took me to my room for the night. When I was transferring from the gurney to my bed the fetus was expelled and I accidentally saw malformed my little one was.

My doctor later told me that even if I had carried longer it never would have survived. He told me it was so malformed that pathology could not even tell if it was a boy or a girl.