Why is North Dakota Torturing Women?

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2. That's a horrible story

I work as a nurse and one of the things I do is dialysis. I dialyze pregnant women from time to time. They usually aren't able to carry to term and the babies end up on NICU. It's these women's choices to do what they have to do, risking their lives to bear a child.

I've also cared for women who have chosen to terminate. One young woman, A ESL immigrant, had a kidney transplant. One of the drugs she has to take for the is a teratogenic drug, and the chances were good shed miscarry, but at great danger to herself. A Catholic, she didn't tell her family, and I ended being the one to to hug her, cry with her and help her on the stretcher on the way other abortion, she's healthy and happy now--she had a very supportive partner, but her desolation that day was in part because she couldn't tell her mother, she couldn't trust the church she was raised with.


This kind of shit has got to stop.