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Abortion will always be divisive, as it’s highly unlikely that the polarised groups will ever agree. But what many do agree on is the need to keep talking about an issue that just won’t go away.
A drunken night out, sex with an ex. It’s not an unusual story.
But a few weeks later, Katherine (whose name has been changed to protect her privacy) passed out in the street and was admitted to Wellington Hospital.
The 23-year-old had a bunch of tests, and when she was examined, staff felt her stomach and told her she “felt full”. She had been to her GP a handful of times for colds and low blood pressure.
She was never tested for pregnancy, nor did her GP offer a pregnancy test, and since she was on hormonal birth control, she didn’t think to ask for it, either. She noticed her stomach was bloated, and took laxatives.
“After taking them for a few days and it not going away, I took a pregnancy test on a whim and it was positive. I thought it was a false positive so I took like 3 tests before going to the nurse. The university doctors told me I was probably 12 weeks pregnant,” she remembers.
A day later, she found out how far into her pregnancy she was.
At 20 weeks and two days, Katherine was well into her second trimester – she had one day until the legal cut off to have an abortion in New Zealand. A counsellor at Wellington Hospital told her that there wasn’t anything that could be done for her. Continue reading.
Source: The Wireless
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