{"id":277471,"date":"2022-10-07T18:45:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T23:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=277471"},"modified":"2022-10-09T22:34:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T03:34:51","slug":"rep-cori-bush-forced-second-abortion-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/rep-cori-bush-forced-second-abortion-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Cori Bush reveals she was forced into a second abortion at 19: ‘They ignored me’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Congresswoman Cori Bush (D-Mo.) has revealed that she underwent a second abortion at age 19. During the procedure, she says she had a change of heart, but when she asked to get up from the table, the nurse and abortionist refused and forced her to undergo the abortion against her will.<\/p>\n

In a “PBS Firing Line with Margaret Hoover” interview, Bush spoke about her book<\/a>\u00a0in which she discusses her abortions<\/a>. She spoke to Hoover about her second abortion. “I was thinking back to the first abortion, ‘Okay, you’ve done this before. You know the rooms. You know what it looks like. You know what it feels like in this place. You know what to expect. You know that you may experience even some harm or some racism in this space,'” she said. “Like, I thought I was ready.”<\/p>\n

Despite believing that she “was ready” for her second abortion, Bush has said<\/a> her first abortion, following a rape, was “the beginning of a very, very dark period… that was the darkest period of my life.” At the facility for that first abortion, she says she was told that she would “wind up on food stamps and welfare” if she kept her baby. She said the abortion counselor was “almost angry” and spoke to her in “belittling and degrading” ways. She also said she wasn’t given the chance to make a decision but was pushed toward abortion while hoping for one voice to tell her she could keep her baby. But she never heard that voice.<\/p>\n

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Whoa. @CoriBush<\/a> says she changed her mind about getting an abortion when she was 19 but the abortionist ignored her pleas, put the instrument inside her, and \u201cstarted the instrument\u201d to kill her baby. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m saying no.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey absolutely ignored me.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/7JiiRSw68v<\/a><\/p>\n

— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) October 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n