March 2012
3 posts
Saved from scars
When I was a child I experienced some fairly brutal and long term abuse. This left me with a level of uterine scarring that cannot be helped, and makes it impossible for me to carry a child to viability. I would be dead long before a child could live.
I am careful, but birth control fails.
Without Planned Parenthood I would have been dead before I was 20.
Planned Parenthood of Missouri saved my bacon...
Back when I was eighteen, I was “kind of” seeing a guy who had the awful habit of “accidentally” losing the condom halfway thru sex. The first time it happened I took a cab (20 miles one way!) to Planned Parenthood for some emergency contraception. Worked a charm. I really thought the condom incident was a one-off accident and continued seeing the boy.
The second time, I...
Planned Parenthood saved my life!
When I was 17 I was felled by severe abdominal pain and was sent to the hospital. They decided that it was probably a dermoid cyst and prescribed antibiotics. Throughout that summer they kept upping the dosage but it didn’t seem to do anything and I just couldn’t afford the costs, so I stopped taking the pills. A couple of months later I passed out at work and was sent home. I...
