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Let ’Em Die
Or Else Do Something About It
An incomplete miscarriage almost cost Texas resident Ryan Hamilton his wife, a medical doctor. It almost cost his baby daughter her mom.
“It seemed just insane and confusing that we were being sent home. I mean, how long is it acceptable for a woman to walk around knowing she has her dead baby inside of her? That should not be okay.
I had been aware of Texas’s almost total abortion ban — it’s all over the news. We had thought the law and its repercussions were horrible and ‘look what happened to that poor woman or family,’ but we never thought that my wife having a miscarriage would be affected by these laws.
I don’t think either miscarriage or abortion are black and white things. It’s complicated. I want women to be protected and for miscarriage and abortion to be between a woman and her doctor. Period.”
Yes, it’s always someone else’s problem until it’s not.
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