Please recognize this is about so much more than abortion.
— Kelly (@broadwaybabyto) July 16, 2025
It’s about life, health and freedom.
It’s about being able to choose what’s best for us and our families.
It’s about saying no to patriarchy, misogyny and saying “Yes” to full bodily autonomy /end
Non classé
I ended up begging for a hysterectomy, because my uterus was too diseased to bear children & endometriosis/adenomyosis left me completely disabled.
— Kelly (@broadwaybabyto) July 17, 2025
They delayed for years for a hypothetical man.
I almost bled to death before finally getting surgery: https://t.co/zN9S6nKw0p
When I was 19, I was told pregnancy would likely kill me.
— Kelly (@broadwaybabyto) July 16, 2025
I didn’t want kids. I had never wanted kids. I certainly didn’t want to die.
So I asked for my tubes to be died and was told no.
They told me abortion would be my best option IF I became pregnant. 🧵
Thankfully I live somewhere that gives me full reproductive rights and healthcare.
— Kelly (@broadwaybabyto) July 16, 2025
Thankfully there’s no draconian abortion bans to put my life at risk.
But I was still denied autonomy over my body, just because I’m a woman.
I was told to use birth control. When I had bad reactions to it, I was told I should practice abstinence.
— Kelly (@broadwaybabyto) July 16, 2025
I was having gynaecological surgery anyways for severe endometriosis, there was no increased risk for a tubal ligation.
I was denied for one reason and one reason only… “you might meet a man who wants kids someday”
— Kelly (@broadwaybabyto) July 16, 2025
This is how we’re treated in healthcare settings.
As an afterthought. Second to the men and hypothetical babies in our future.
It’s also why abortion bans are deadly
Misogyny in medicine is so extreme that we aren’t trusted to make the best decisions for our bodies.
— Kelly (@broadwaybabyto) July 16, 2025
We aren’t trusted to control our reproductive destiny.
Yet we ARE entrusted with bringing life into the world.
It makes no sense.
It’s because it’s not really about life, it’s about control.
— Kelly (@broadwaybabyto) July 16, 2025
And when abortion bans are strict, women die.
Had I become pregnant in a state with a strict abortion ban, it would cost me my life.
“But there’s exceptions for the health of the mother!”
— Kelly (@broadwaybabyto) July 16, 2025
Sure, in theory there are.
But we don’t live in theory, we live in reality.
We live in a world that denies women tubals and hysterectomies because of what a future man MIGHT want.
When abortion is criminalized, doctors risk jail time for ending a pregnancy.
— Kelly (@broadwaybabyto) July 16, 2025
If you think every doctor will put the life of their patient above their own freedom, you’re kidding yourself.
