{"id":265262,"date":"2022-04-03T13:04:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T18:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=265262"},"modified":"2022-04-01T20:23:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T01:23:15","slug":"woman-abortion-infertility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-abortion-infertility\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman still grieves after being forced into abortion by abusive husband: ‘I was heartbroken’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Desperate to become a mother, Annie (not her real name) turned to in vitro fertilization (IVF) \u2013 a decision she would later regret \u2014 when infertility problems threatened to derail her dream of motherhood. She became pregnant after two miscarriages but was later coerced to abort her son by her husband.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my home country of Eastern Europe, I was raped as a young girl. The assault was very traumatic and worse, the offender got a light sentence,” Annie told Live Action News. “When I learned I was expecting a boy, I developed an irrational fear that he could grow up to be a rapist. My husband used that fear against me, insisting I have an abortion, claiming I wasn\u2019t mentally stable enough to raise a son.\u201d<\/p>\n

Annie did not want to abort the child she had yearned for. Struggling with depression, she felt alone, without any support. Her husband\u2019s verbal abuse escalated, and he badgered her to terminate the pregnancy. But when he drove her to the abortion facility, she resisted.<\/p>\n

\u201cI became hysterical and ran from the room,\u201d Annie said. \u201cThe woman at the clinic told my husband she could not force me to have the abortion. She was unwilling to acquiesce to his pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Annie\u2019s husband was determined she abort their child. He would \u201cswitch back and forth\u201d between promising they could later try for a girl, to threatening to take away the child and send her back to her country if she didn\u2019t comply. Eventually, he transported her out of state to get the procedure at a West Coast medical facility.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe put so much effort into ensuring I had the abortion and even became physically abusive,” Annie said. “He was so manipulative and unrelenting, that I caved under the pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n

A botched abortion<\/h3>\n

During the abortion procedure, that abortionist accidentally cut a major vein in Annie’s uterus, and afterward, she remembers feeling weak, standing at the sink while the nurse helped her pour blood out of her shoes. No ambulance was ever called, and neither the nurse nor Annie\u2019s husband seemed particularly concerned about her well-being.<\/p>\n

Back home, the bleeding eventually stopped, but a blood clot had formed in Annie\u2019s uterus, and she was experiencing intense pain. She insisted her husband take her to the emergency room. She thought doctors would remove the blood clots, but was later informed by a surgeon that she needed to have stents inserted into the iliac vein in her uterus. Annie declined the procedure. The surgeon angrily told her he could give her blood thinners and release her, but she\u2019d live with pain the rest of her life.<\/p>\n

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