Comment on Ask Amy: Married couple reflects on their illegal abortion

Ask Amy: Married couple reflects on their illegal abortion

Dear Amy: Back before we were married — in the 1960s (pre-Roe v. Wade), my wife and I borrowed $500 and went to a small dusty town on the other side of the Arizona-Mexico border to get an abortion. The “clinic” was tiny. It only had screens for windows. Our journey was not without risk and danger. Among other experiences, we remember having to stand under the sweltering sun after the procedure while border patrolmen meticulously searched our car for drugs. However, unlike some other friends in similar circumstances, the outcome was OK for us. While we have never regretted our decision, we have never shared it with our closest friends of the last 50 years, or with our children or grandchildren — people’s own judgments and experiences being what they are. We always planned to keep this private until now, when a woman’s right to choose is under full assault. No one should have to go through what we and many others went through in order to end an unplanned and unwanted pregnancy. So here’s the dilemma, Amy: Should we share our experience in support of women’s rights and risk the fallout, OR continue to keep this private? — In a Quandary Dear Quandary: I am, with your express permission, publishing your statement — where it will be seen by millions of people.

 

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