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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hate that this thread was taken over by the anti-abortion nuts.

It's important, IMO, for women to share their stories. My own mother, who is very conservative, was very anti-abortion until she was with me when I was faced with the reality of my life versus the life of the fetus.

#1 - I was 27 & the baby was very much wanted. We'd been married 3 years and TTC for about 18 months. I started spotting & then it quickly turned to heavy bleeding. Rushed to my OB who confirmed what I knew, I was miscarrying. I was only 9 weeks so the OB wasn't worried about me continuing at home on my own, so I was discharged. I had to get rushed back to the ER later in severe pain and got a D&C.

#2 - I was just shy of turning 29 the next time. I made it to 18 weeks that time. No heartbeat was detected during my scan. a D&C was done.

After #2, I found a specialist who diagnosed me with what several other OBs had missed: bicornuate uterus. Mine isn't as "split" or well-defined as a traditional bicornuate uterus, mine is more of a heart shape of sorts but there is separation.

I had one more miscarriage with D&C at age 32 and then my husband got a vasectomy. I couldn't go through it anymore.

D&C's are terrible and painful. [b]No one is using abortions as a means of birth control.[/b]     [/quote]

2-3 people in the posts prior to yours admitted they'd done just that![/quote]

Do you have reading comprehension issues? The PP said she was using birth control but got pregnant anyway, not that she was having lots of unprotected sex and figured she could always abort if needed. It’s a backup. I agree it should not be a primary form of birth control, but most people would never use it as their primary because it’s not always easily accessible to everyone. [/quote]

PP who terminated the pregnancy here.

Making the appointment was easy and the actual physical process[b] wasn't. [/b]I was five weeks (so three weeks gestation) and it felt like very bad period.

But I had to take a day off, drive 40 minutes to Maryland (because I wanted one right away and that's where I could get one right away), pay $500, drive back 40 minutes, fill my prescription for painkillers, then of course take the pills. This is a much easier process than some people have to go through to get an abortion, but compared to birth control it is expensive and complicated as hell. I can't imagine anybody is going to say "yes, that is the birth control method I'm choosing, something that costs $500 dollars, is painful enough to justify opiates, and requires making an appointment, taking a day off work, and driving far away."[/quote]

Wasn't bad, I meant. [/quote]

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