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Michigan 2016 election results nytimes3/16/2024 ![]() ![]() So I am confident my story has changed the hearts and minds of a lot of people and I’m grateful that I’ve been able to find some light from what was the darkest experience of my life. To date, it has been viewed 1.5 million times. Recently The Moth reshared a storytelling event where I told my whole story. Missouri abortion-rights amendments face ‘torturous’ process to make it to 2024 ballot I have shared my story at all levels of government and I joined local advocacy efforts in an effort to reduce stigma and create better policy. And this was all under the “protections” of Roe.Īfter my experience, I felt called to step into abortion-rights advocacy. I felt judged, stigmatized and disregarded. The weight of Missouri’s callous disregard for the complications of pregnancy, or my health and safety, felt heavy. I also had to sign judgmental and biased non-medical consents and wait 72 hours to receive necessary medical care. Given all of the information we had, and with counsel from an excellent medical team, we made the heartbreaking decision to terminate the pregnancy.īut then we learned we were fast approaching Missouri’s abortion ban, which at the time was 22 weeks. But then we learned the new, devastating information that our baby had a fatal fetal condition. In 2016, I was in the 2nd trimester of a pregnancy I had deeply hoped for after expensive, physically demanding fertility treatments. I understand the results of political “compromise” on abortion all too well. ![]() However they all have a troubling commonality: The attempt to reinstate Roe, a framework deemed insufficient by the very reproductive justice leaders now pushing these ballot initiatives. ![]() Similar initiatives are being pursued in Florida, Arizona and my home state of Missouri. Voters in states like Kansas, Michigan and most recently Ohio have resoundingly supported ballot initiatives to protect abortion rights in their constitutions. The overturning of Roe vs Wade last year has created massive fallout, with abortion-rights advocates scrambling to react. ![]()
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