What to Expect When You’re Aborting

Sorted under reproductive rights on September 16, 2008

And other (pretty skewed) thoughts on abortion.

Because there isn’t a book out there that will prepare you for an abortion and the only information you can find online is medical jargon and right-wing publications saying you’re going to hell if you get one, there is now a blog about one woman’s experience with getting an abortion.

What to Expect When You’re Aborting is a blog that is sometimes hilarious and light-hearted and at other times brutally honest written by a 23 year old woman.

There is a particular post there that I found great; it was taken from the abortion episode of House. When Dr. House tells a rape victim that she is pregnant, she tells him:

“Abortion is murder.”
“True. It’s a life and you should end it.”
“Every life is sacred.”
“Come on. Talk to me. Don’t quote me bumper stickers.”
“It’s true.”
“It’s meaningless.”
“It means that every life matters to God.”
“Not to me. Not to you. Judging by the number of natural disasters, not to God either.”
“You’re just being argumentative.”
“Yeah. I do do that. What about Hitler? Was his life sacred to God? Father of your child. Is his life sacred to you?”
“My child isn’t Hitler.”
“Either every life is sacred or—”
“Stop it! I don’t want to chat about philosophy.”
“You’re not killing your rape baby because of a philosophy.”
“It’s murder. I’m against it. You for it?”
“Not as a general rule.”
“Just for unborn children?”
“Yes. The problem with exceptions to rules is the line-drawing. It might make sense for us to kill the ass that did this to you. I mean, where do we draw the line? Which asses do we get to kill and which asses get to keep on being asses.” The nice thing about the abortion debate is that we can quibble over trimesters but ultimately, there’s a nice clean line: birth. Morally there isn’t a lot of difference. Practically, huge.”

So what do you have to expect when getting an abortion? Look no further because a woman (you know, the sex that will get pregnant; we don’t want any of those anti-abortion men round these parts talking about morality or religion or any of that shit because frankly, if you have a penis you will never have a pregnancy-ever-no matter how hard you try so a man talking to a woman about abortion is pretty much a slap in the face and yet another way of men trying to make you believe that not only do they think they rule the world, they think it should continue to be like that) stepped up to the plate and put her experience online for the world to see and I love this blog–For its brutal honesty if nothing else.

If you would like some other abortion resources written not just by real people, but real people who perform abortions, check out abortion clinic days.



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  • I just started my own abortion blog because I was really inspired by her's. There is a lot of scary info on the web and it's a topic that such few women talk about outside of the context of politics. I wanted to add something positive and real to the mix. I'm not an expert by any means...just a girl who's scared, pregnant, and waiting for her abortion appointment to come up (next monday!). I'm writing about everything that goes on in the meantime. If you want to check it out it's called Un-Expecting and it's at http://myabortionblog.tumblr.com
  • Nice to see some common sense talk about abortion, (but then I'm a man) :-)
  • Wow...the "What to Expect When You're Aborting" blog is definitely raw.

    I'm not completely sure what to make of it.
  • That's awesome. Props for finding this blog, Holly!
  • Aphrodine
    I LOVE Abortion Clinic Days. I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE it! I actually started reading the "What to Expect When You're Aborting" blog through them.
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