We are a country, even with a global pandemic still unresolved, of nearly 330 million people. That is a lot of people on planet Earth in the USA. There are a lot of women managing their gender and it's potential for pregnancy everyday. There are also a lot of women becoming pregnant. There is an enormous amount of genetics at play in a country that proudly touts itself as "a melting pot." Those genetics can play tricks and physical ailments or physiological interruptions cause pregnancies to hang in the balance. The ONLY person qualified to assist in the decisions women make everyday regarding their fertility, unwanted pregnancies, pregnancies and some of those wanted pregnancies with troubles unique to the woman, is her doctor(s).
There is NO ONE IN THE USA qualified to assist every woman to make these decisions besides her doctor(s).
NO ONE in the USA are licensed to practice medicine to assist American women with these difficult decisions. Women have worries about birth control, the kind that works best, unwanted pregnancies at a time in their lives that will set them back in their own pursuit of happiness and/or betterment in life than their parents. Women worry the entire time they are carrying a pregnancy. They think about the baby and wonder what it will be like to hold their children in their arms for the first time.
Women worry about their husbands and/or partners as to what they will say and think when a surprise pregnancy is revealed. They worry about whether or not the future will be secure enough to provide for the ideals floating in their heads and hearts about the future expectations.
Do you know there was a significant drop off in the number of pregnancies in 2020 because men and women thinking about having a family or having more of a family might be effected by a coronavirus. The financial insecurity that accompanied it alone was enough to postpone pregnancy.
Women with or without husbands worry a lot. They also experience great joy with pregnancy and childbirth willing to have their lives changed within nine months of a healthy and successful pregnancy. That goes unsaid. Americans love children. But, what no one in government stops to realize is that women don't want to have to worry about them, too. They have enough to worry about without having old, white guys in office call them irresponsible women for deciding an abortion is necessary for the reason they find it necessary.
Texas has passed laws that guarantee malpractice because highly qualified doctors have to first consult an attorney before doing the right thing for the woman and the family. THAT IS WRONG AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS!!!
By Carrie Feibel
Elizabeth Weller never dreamed that her own hopes for a child would become ensnared in the web of Texas abortion law.
She and her husband began trying in late 2021. They had bought a house in Kingwood, a lakeside development in Houston. Elizabeth was in graduate school for political science, and James taught middle-school math.
The Wellers were pleasantly surprised when they got pregnant early in 2022.
In retrospect, Elizabeth says their initial joy felt a little naive: "If it was so easy for us to get pregnant, then to us it was almost like a sign that this pregnancy was going to be easy for us."
Things did go fairly smooth at first. Seventeen weeks into the pregnancy, they learned they were expecting a girl. They also had an anatomy scan, which revealed no problems. Even if it had, the Wellers were determined to proceed....
