United States Senator Gary Peters, a low-key, moderate Democrat from Michigan, is in a very tight re-election race that could decide whether his party wins the Senate. But he’s not the kind of guy who typically makes national headlines. He’s more known for being a dad who enjoys riding his motorcycle and drinking the local beer than he is for saying attention-grabbing things. So it may come as a surprise that with this story, he will become the first sitting senator in American history to publicly share a personal experience with abortion. “It's a story of how gut-wrenching and complicated decisions can be related to reproductive health, a situation I went through with my first wife,” he told me in a phone interview Sunday afternoon. In the late 1980s in Detroit, Peters and his then wife, Heidi, were pregnant with their second child, a baby they very much wanted. Heidi was four months along when her water broke, leaving the fetus without amniotic fluid—a condition it could not possibly survive. The doctor told the Peters to go home and wait for a miscarriage to happen naturally. But it didn’t happen. They went back to the hospital the next day, and the doctor detected a faint heartbeat. He recommended an abortion, because the fetus still had no chance of survival, but it wasn’t an option due to a hospital policy banning the procedure. So he sent the couple again home to wait for a miscarriage. “The mental anguish someone goes through is intense,” Peters says, “trying to have a miscarriage for a child that was wanted.” As they waited, Heidi’s health deteriorated. When she returned to the hospital on the third day, after another night without a natural miscarriage, the doctor told her the situation was dire. She could lose her uterus in a matter of hours if she wasn’t able to have an abortion, and if she became septic from the uterine infection, she could die. "It’s important for folks to understand that these things happen to folks every day." The doctor appealed to the hospital’s board for an exception to their anti-abortion policy and was denied. “I still vividly remember he left a message on the answering machine saying, ‘They refused to give me permission, not based on good medical practice, simply based on politics. I recommend you immediately find another physician who can do this procedure quickly,’” Peters recalls. The Peters were able to get into another hospital right away because they were friends with its chief administrator. Heidi was rushed into an emergency abortion that saved her uterus and possibly her life. The whole experience was “painful and traumatic,” Heidi shared in a statement. “If it weren’t for urgent and critical medical care, I could have lost my life.” Reflecting on the experience now, Senator Peters says it “enacted an incredible emotional toll.” So why go public with it? “It’s important for folks to understand that these things happen to folks every day,” he explains. “I’ve always considered myself pro-choice and believe women should be able to make these decisions themselves, but when you live it in real life, you realize the significant impact it can have on a family.” https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a34339956/senator-gary-peters-abortion/
Over 1,000,000 healthy human beings are created but then slaughtered in America every year because their biological parents were too lazy to use condoms and were too spineless to accept responsibility for their actions. They would likely be horrific parents if forced to try. Maybe they should be the ones whose lives are ended, and not the other way around. Exceptions to the above are a fraction of a percent of abortions in America. Less than 1%. A few parents are faced with the horror of having to abort their wanted child to save the mother's life. A few more are rape victims, some who understandably don't want to give birth and raise the child. They are anomalies, and warrant separate and honest consideration. But over 1,000,000 a year are a direct result of lazy, arrogant narcissists just being their entitled irresponsible selves. Not sure what they have done to earn a License to skill.
If this is really something that is important to you then please, please, start adopting. Also you can reach out to a woman who feels that they are not able to support a child financially and offer to cover their expenses while carrying the child to term and then adopting it from her. This problem isn't one we solve by legislating or telling people what to do, it's one where you can make a difference one child at a time by adopting and giving women more choices. I'll tell you what, if you adopt a child I'll promise to take you and them to Enchanted Forrest every summer until they become a teenager. I'll even throw in lunch. Because I support adoption and support local Oregon businesses.
Ah the classic holier than thou perspective! Let’s force kids to be born to punish their sinful parents. Give me a fucking break. Go yell at some more clouds…
