M. and M.

Thursday, Emc report of the day.
M. called, the abortion clinic refused her. Lisa tells her to come and talk. So she comes, 21 weeks along. It's not the reason why the clinic refused her. (of course not!)They refused her because last time she had an abortion she had a seizure. And they refuse to take her because of the probable complication this time around...
I was wondering: "what kind of situation sees a woman risking her life to end a pregnancy?"
She lives with her husband and their 3 kids at a relative's. Can we call it a crisis pregnancy? I would say yes. It's a crisis, definetly. They would be homeless if not for that relative. Should she have the abortion? well let me ask it an other way: what will she do when she gets pregnant again in 2 months? Risk her life a few times a year?

"the solution to a pregnancy crisis is to get rid of the crisis, not of the baby."
mother Teresa (?)

I could not agree more. M. didn't know where to ask for help. She has some money aside (to pay for the abortion) and now she also has addresses and references to get help. What makes me the most upset is those abortion clinics, like supermarket: no counselling, no options, no questions, no help... "you come for an abortion? This way please..." no " Did you consider the other options?"

Next M. was much younger, 17 years old. She has a 10 months old son. She is afraid her parents would throw her out, they already helped for the first baby but they would get mad at her for being pregnant again. And I wondered: What kind of parent would do that? But now nothing can surprise me. I mean the parents are not very consistent: they let their kids learning about feelings, relationships and sex at school, they don't get involve in communicating about it with their own teens, and then they get mad when the youth become parents themselves too young...