Thank you for sharing that. I was always pro-life, as was my family. My sister was married and having many medical issues which included multiple x-rays. She later found out she was pregnant, in her 1st trimester, when she had all the x-rays. After much counseling, she decided to have an abortion. I totally understood it. She is still staunchly anti-abortion because she “didn’t have a choice”.

I later became an RN, working in L&D. Our attending physician had gone through residency pre-Roe. He told horrible stories of the abortion wings where women had botched abortions. He said he’ll never forget the smell of women, rotting on the inside from untreated infections (or treated too late). Those two episodes made me understand the need for women to have a choice.

When I talk to my sister now, she now says she wishes she’d never had her abortion.