“33 weeks pregnant and feeling like I made the wrong decision”
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A woman posts in the abortion subreddit saying that she’s 33 weeks pregnant. She initially was actually excited about being pregnant, and she went to a regular OB. While she was there, she said, “Lo and behold, a mini human—arms, legs, a head. It was such a clear picture of a baby.”
She was excited about it until around 15 weeks pregnant. She started to feel not so excited.
Now, at 33 weeks pregnant, she says, “I’m just weeks away from giving birth, and as awful as I feel about it, my mind keeps floating back to the thought of, ‘I wish I had gotten an abortion.’” Then she goes on to express her depression, her concern, and her fears about the pregnancy.
And then, very helpfully, one of the mods for the abortion subreddit says, “If you do want to get an abortion, you can still do that. Is that something you’d like to learn more about?”
And the mod is right. There are not only places in the country where it’s legal to abort at any stage in pregnancy, but there are also places with clinics that will do it for no medical reason.
You can find quite a few accounts like this on the abortion subreddit, and not just women thinking about how they wish they had gotten an abortion, but women getting the specific details and the tens of thousands of dollars to get abortions this late, and women coming back afterward to talk about their experiences getting abortions this late. Some of them talk about how they just didn’t realize how brutally hard it would be. Others have been talking not about how hard it was, but just about how they got through it.
And if your response to all this is, “Reddit’s not a source. Maybe all these different accounts are just making it up for whatever reason,” that’s fine. We list a bunch of sources here, including peer-reviewed academic sources, including interviews of abortion providers talking about performing later abortions for no medical reason.
The information is out there. If you don’t want to look at it, that’s on you.
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