{"id":189271,"date":"2018-10-03T09:44:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T14:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=189271"},"modified":"2018-10-02T16:06:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T21:06:53","slug":"feminist-describes-abortion-skewered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/feminist-describes-abortion-skewered\/","title":{"rendered":"Prominent feminist describes her abortion: It ‘felt like I was being skewered’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pro-abortion activist Jessica Valenti wrote about her two abortions in her book,\u00a0Sex Object<\/em>. Valenti describes finding a private abortion facility to do her first abortion<\/a>. She paid over $1000 to avoid sitting in a waiting room with other women. Valenti describes how she found the abortion facility:<\/p>\n

A Google search on \u201cearly abortions\u201d that same day led me to a clinic claiming to be midwife\u2013like that used a method for ending the pregnancy that didn\u2019t require machines, anesthesia, or a horrible sucking sound. Just a syringe and a nurse holding your hand.<\/em><\/p>\n

But the abortion was extremely painful. Valenti writes:<\/p>\n

Midwife-like handholding aside, the pain was terrible, much worse than I expected. I didn’t cry, but my sister told me I went pale, my lips white minutes afterward while I ate a pink starburst to get my blood sugar going enough to get me off the table without vomiting.<\/em><\/p>\n

The abortion facility called Valenti a few days later to tell her the abortion had failed. She was still pregnant. Valenti was filled with dread at the thought of going back to the facility:<\/p>\n

When the nurse told me on the phone my knees literally went weak at the thought of enduring that pain again. So, when I went to see the doctor for the second time, I started to sob. Please can you give me something. She told me I was right and brave to ask for what I needed, and a nurse put an IV in my arm and gave me a sedative that made the procedure so easy I cried with relief and gratitude \u2013 thanking the doctor through tears as she left the room when all was done. I left the office with my sister and went outside, where my mother was waiting with her car to drive me home, me lying down in the backseat. I knew, though, that I could never go through this again.<\/em><\/p>\n