Every day, we hear of Republican lawmakers introducing and pushing forward misogynistic bills that are not only an embarrassment to government and a huge waste of taxpayer money, they are also physically, emotionally and financially damaging to the women they attack. Jessie Balmert with USA Today reports:
An Ohio woman whose baby would have been stillborn was forced to travel 300 miles to Chicago because no Ohio abortion clinic would do the procedure.Guy spoke at last week's news conference hosted by NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio and ProgressOhio. She said when she and her husband went to the hospital for a second-trimester ultrasound, hoping to find out the gender of their baby, the news they received was crushing. After two tests, the hospital providers told her the baby has a spinal abnormality and would not survive.Sheva Guy, 23, a doctoral student from Cincinnati, said her daughter was diagnosed with a fatal spinal abnormality when she went to a hospital for her second-trimester ultrasound at about 22 weeks. She and her husband were expecting to find out the gender of their child.
"I just completely broke down. I mean, I was so vulnerable," Guy said. "Pantsless on the table, I was finding out this news. I was just sobbing. Both my contacts fell out. I couldn't see anything."She was given two options: deliver a stillborn daughter or have an abortion.
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