Posted on May 5, 2022
What it was like getting an illegal abortion: Seattle area women share their stories
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"I was a 20-year-old nursing student in 1972.
The very first patient I had was a 15-year-old girl who became severely septic from a self-induced abortion with a coat hanger.
The girl died in my care. Two months later, I was raped and became pregnant. I was lucky enough to find a provider willing to do an abortion"
Two different stories, different endings to a similar story. I'm furious and saddened that I will end my nursing career with witnessing the same abuse, the same dismissal of women and their families.
The very first patient I had was a 15-year-old girl who became severely septic from a self-induced abortion with a coat hanger.
The girl died in my care. Two months later, I was raped and became pregnant. I was lucky enough to find a provider willing to do an abortion"
Two different stories, different endings to a similar story. I'm furious and saddened that I will end my nursing career with witnessing the same abuse, the same dismissal of women and their families.
What it was like getting an illegal abortion: Seattle area women share their stories
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."I was born in 1949. I got pregnant in 1965 or 1966.
I was 16.
My father was an Irish immigrant, alcoholic. I guess what I'm trying to say is the circumstances that people get pregnant under are not pleasant; they're heartbreaking, and not to have a choice was horrific. Nobody talked about adoption then, and there were no child protection services for children like myself, an only child.
I feel like I was a feral child. I kind of raise myself but was sexually abused from about 5 years onward, probably to when I ended up getting pregnant. For women to have to be abused. come from homes that are horrific. And these things happen to them because they don't even know how to not let them happen or how to say no, and then to be forced."...
..."I was born in 1949. I got pregnant in 1965 or 1966.
I was 16.
My father was an Irish immigrant, alcoholic. I guess what I'm trying to say is the circumstances that people get pregnant under are not pleasant; they're heartbreaking, and not to have a choice was horrific. Nobody talked about adoption then, and there were no child protection services for children like myself, an only child.
I feel like I was a feral child. I kind of raise myself but was sexually abused from about 5 years onward, probably to when I ended up getting pregnant. For women to have to be abused. come from homes that are horrific. And these things happen to them because they don't even know how to not let them happen or how to say no, and then to be forced."...
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