ABORTION HEALTHCARE -FACTS AND STORIES TOO

MILCK - Women's March 2018

ABORTION HEALTHCARE 

Taking the summer off from blogging was a good decision for my wellness. I did intend to begin again sharing amazing tips and tricks I am learning through my own commitment to moving through Peri-Menopause naturally, however I can always come back to that! Time is a very precious thing right now for those of us who genuinely LOVE WOMEN! 

Abortion is health care and the only way to not see that- as truth - is to be uneducated on several levels. Not just medically speaking. On many levels and for sure on the level of expanded consciousness. 



FACTS 



Facts are Important: Abortion is Healthcare: 

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), with over 57,000 members, maintains the highest standards of clinical practice and continuing education for the nation’s women’s health physicians. Abortion care is included in medical training, clinical practice, and continuing medical education.

ACOG’s Guidelines for Women’s Health Care, A Resource Manual, 4th Edition, encompassing the full spectrum of clinical and management issues relating to women’s health care, lists abortion among the array of services that make up Gynecologic Care

https://www.acog.org/advocacy/facts-are-important/abortion-is-healthcare


 

NOT CARRYING OTHER PEOPLE'S SHAME INSIDE OUR BODIES
WOMEN'S HEALTH 101 

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EXPANDED CONSCIOUSNESS 

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WHEN OTHER PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS PROJECTED SHAME IS LIFTED FROM A WOMAN'S BODY -ANGER IS A VERY NATURAL< HEALTHY RESPONSE! SOMETHING MADAM CLARE SPEAKS INTO SO VIVIDLY......



“I’m so angry with myself for not speaking about it and feeling ashamed of something that really there’s no shame in”

~Clare



BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour - Abortion Stories: Five women share their experiences

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3kqkh6td2w65XWWg00MYf1t/abortion-stories-five-women-share-their-experiences

Every woman, if she is a yes or a no to abortion healthcare, it is important to lean into the reality of her own existence. A woman’s healthcare/family planning decision needs to be led by her reality and not by anyone else. 

"I consulted no one but my conscience"

When she was 28 and living in New York City in the early 1990s, Diana terminated her pregnancy.
"I was in a rocky relationship with my boyfriend, and I’d been thinking about ending it. I’d also had all these weird symptoms of being exhausted and peeing every five minutes, and when I mentioned that to a girlfriend, she said, 'Uh-oh!
It sounds like you’re pregnant.'

7 Women Share Their Abortion Stories in the Wake of #YouKnowMe | Health.com
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"….the body can discern, to the finest degree, the difference between that which is supportive of life and that which is not.
David R. Hawkins, Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior

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FROM THE COLLECTIVE TO THE PERSONAL.... 

Anyone can read my quick “Be Self Loving” Bio here to understand the impact of where my own personal Child loss-Abortion Healthcare-Family Planning story begins: For me, 

https://www.loveaffairwiththyself.com/about-christina-marie.html

Anyone can also read our families creative story in the book Stories of Courageous Vulnerability here

https://issuu.com/christinamarie74

The book is literally called: Stories of Courageous Vulnerability 



https://issuu.com/christinamarie74

Our story exists with 39 other -wide/broad -real life stories on many life topics where the struggle is real and the breakthroughs are incredible and life enhancing. 

TO get a wider world view of what I've been focused on for a few decades now...

There are three choices to learn more about what I align with and the work I've done with others to generate a meaningful life as it relates to Self, Family and Humanity.  Lots of food for thought that anyone can take on or pass on...the goal is to see if it helps anyone else and if it does GREAT! 
https://www.christinamariewhinnery.com/

and that also means-NO FORCED FATHERHOOD TOO. 
I think of my almost thirty year old son every day. I think of my son Donovan who died as a baby in my arms very often too. I do not think about my abortion healthcare choices as a regret because I did all that personal work a very long time ago.  Then writing my story in 2012 took things to a new level.  I've had both men and women reaching out in privacy sharing the impact of our Family Planning/Abortion health care story on their own lives and it has been deeply touching on so many levels.

This time as I was leaning into my own experience I remembered more details regarding that one committed connection I had agreed to and how it was the man who I was in that connection with who did not want to be forced into fatherhood. Not just once, but twice. The first, was the beginning of the end and the second time was THE END.  Looking back on this time period from so long ago, we were actually engaged by the time the second abortion as healthcare choice was what he wanted and that is what caused me to leave. It's so fascinating how the story changes within the context of a culture that likes to "disappear" someone else's story.  Plus as a mother traveling with a son, I also needed to think more deeply about our family planning above and beyond this man who didn't make the cut.  And this ties into the Texas abortion ban time line. During my second pregnancy with this man, I left and he thought it would be a good idea to "withhold" "ignore" and block all communications between us.

Step 1-Let me know he does not want his own blood. (I am listening to that no, with respect for all parts-that includes the heaviness of having to deal with that always and forever "she trapped me," as if he wasn't also in the room. Men are such insane creatures sometimes. 

Step 2-Letting me know he is still immature (withhold/ignore) and when he finally did show up the shock and dismay combined with the emotional honesty was concise. He was just trying to teach me a lesson (withholding) and he never dreamed I would ever do anything like what "I DID." But you see, thats the thing about it. I only had a very short amount of time to make this choice on my own with no support from the other half of the procreative partnership of sorts. That's just another piece to this absurd Texas Law.  

This was relationship. Living together. Engaged. Bottom line I lost respect for him and low and behold, after I left he met the most amazing woman who had super duper respect for him. They got married and had the most perfect baby boy and it made me happy to see he got the same thing I already had. A healthy son. 

I would imagine when he looks into his son's eyes he sees his own and his heart expands. 

I would imagine having a wife who respects you very deeply and wants to spend her life with you, that makes his life a hell of a lot easier than his life ever would have been with me. 

I would imagine after becoming a father and experiencing that level of love and that level of responsibility and that level of everything, he gets why I lost respect for him.

Sometimes, that is how we learn and that is how we grow and that is how we evolve and sometimes, not so much. I don't know either way.  There is nothing in it for me. No pleasure what so ever - FORCING anyone to be a parent. This bad parenting act the U.S. likes to call "normal" is just so YUCKY!!!!! 

IN closing. 

ABORTION IS HEALTHCARE. FULL STOP.  


The goal here though...... is a lot bigger for women's health and well-being through their right and choice to have a say in their own family planning.

That is my stand

Today I'm excited about some Dr's appointments then tomorrow.... WE MARCH!!!! YAY

Find a SISTER MARCH IN YOUR AREA!!!!  Ours here is mandatory masks and social distancing and holding one another to account for those community safe things. I'm pretty excited about it!  

https://womensmarch.com/

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