kengr

In polite conversation, I have had three miscarriages before my only live birth. In medical terms, all spontaneous abortions, one complete abortion, two failed abortions with sepsis afterwards treated by dilation and evacuation of the uterus with a follow-up course of antibiotics = ABORTION CARE is medical care! https://www.icd10data.com/search?s=Abortion

Because of my underlying health conditions, the doctors did not want to give me the medications that now are summed up under "medication abortion". If I hadn't gotten appropriate abortion care in 2002-2003, I wouldn't have lived long enough to give birth to my only child in 2004.

That "fetal heartbeat" that keeps getting cited is inaccurate medical terminology use, lying for propaganda. At that early stage, it's a cardiac PULSE, and stem cells will do that in a petri dish, if given an electrical current to start. You can't have a heartbeat until you have heart structures! I have *both* types of intrauterine congenital heart disease, arrhythmia and a now repaired sub-aortic stenosis ribbon membrane type. Arrhythmia of the nervous system might be detectable at 6 to 8 weeks. The sub-aortic stenosis was not differentiated from a bicuspid aortic valve until I was almost 34 years old! That's when I had my first trans esophageal echocardiogram, instead of the echocardiogram ultrasound from outside. I've been telling my pro birth friends for 15 YEARS now, that you can't stop voluntary abortions unless you're also backing complete socialized healthcare, because letting me be born with disabilities and not supporting my necessary open heart surgery is just abortion of a fully cognizant human being, calling it murder to their faces.

I've seen "habitual aborter" on my medical records. (/Agonized tone of voice) It's NOT a habit I wanted! Code now is recurrent pregnancy loss - https://www.icd10data.com/search?s=Habitual%20aborter