We all agree that the choice to have an abortion is a complex one. But the one thing that is demonstrated over and over is that the right for a woman to have that choice is as important as the right of any human being not be tortured.
The video here shows a Nebraskan couple who were not given the right to choose even though they knew their baby had little chance of survival, because Nebraska law prevented them from having the choice to end the pregnancy. They describe their experience as “torture.”
The mother says, “There are things worse than death.” She goes on to say “The outcome of my pregnancy, that choice was made by God. How to handle the end of my pregnancy, that choice should’ve been mine. It wasn’t because of a law.”
She has this to say about the law (that conservative legislators have pushed in place): “If they thought about their daughters, their sisters, their mothers, their wives being in this situation, they would never want them to go through that.”
See video: http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid48788398001?bckey=AQ~~,AAAACEa20sk~,awHVm72MyKltMOqg2JcN9xSyrh4zXV0_&bclid=0&bctid=815506650001
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