Yup, thank you. He may well have violated some kind of internal policy at their workplace (or maybe not), but that is not a HIPAA violation. It is deeply shitty.

So much warmth and healing to this brave woman (and her husband, and family). I’m commenting for anyone who finds themselves in a similar situation- I faced this particular choice last year (though lucky to be not nearly as far along- terminated around 15 weeks).

Thank you Jia, and thank you, Elizabeth. Telling and publishing these stories is vital to keeping abortion safe and legal. We need more of our stories out there.

I had an abortion at 20 weeks for chromosomal abnormalities. The baby would have lived, but there was no way to tell how much brain or organ function would…

I just want to highlight this passage for anyone who skims or just jumps to the comments. Because truer words.

DAMN STRAIGHT.

god fucking damn it, the pull-out method. As a public health worker, I just have to cringe.

I have never loved any reply of yours more than I do this one right now.

Here’s a link to Dr. Hern’s clinic for anyone interested in offering support directly to the people who work there, and here’s the National Network of Abortion Funds. The George Tiller Memorial Fund specifically goes to late abortions.

thank you. i was coming here to ask about this.

Hillary Clinton is not a billionaire but try again troll.

You people couldn’t work “hemorrhaging” into your puns?!?

Their stock value is bleeding as we speak.

O baby.

It’s certainly operating in the red.

“making her the first self-made female billionaire”? Oprah (of Oprah fame) and Doris Fisher (GAP founder) were billionaire looooong before Elizabeth Holmes. I think you meant “youngest.”

Because unless she’s murdered and eaten an entire kindergarten class, no woman deserves ‘internet justice.’ Jess is a dumbass, but she’s not the one with a network TV show.

No sarcasm. Completely serious. I fucked up.

It’s weird that Tales thinks that new Journalism has to do with glorifying the criminal or the unethical or the edgy, when it was originally practiced to put the readers attention on subjects or persons who were disenfranchised or misunderstood, by placing the writer in and among them. So Squicky, the way it was…

Yes - he thinks for about ten minutes about the moral implications and then signs a waiver. Was very surprised reading this how little the author grapples with his own responsibilities as a member of the media and just a human being in general. Especially when he’s up there in the attic watching people right along…

Totally!