With their majority in the new House of Representatives, Republicans went on the attack Wednesday to further challenge America’s abortion rights.
The texts presented by the American right seek in particular to oblige the doctors who officiate during the intervention to do everything possible to “save the aborted fetus”, or allow pharmacists to assert a conscience clause to refuse to sell the abortion pill . Pill for which the National Medicines Agency has just signed the marketing authorization on January 3.
Measures that, however, have no possibility of being adopted by Congress, with the Democrats retaining control in the Senate. But while the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade last June, by allowing many states to ban abortion at the local level, the legislative offensive is not anecdotal. It is in any case in this context that we must reposition the speech given on Wednesday by Frederica Wilson, about a still painful experience fifty years later.
In this speech posted on Twitter and broadcast by the guardianThe Florida Democratic representative thus recounted having had to keep her dead fetus in her womb until term, due to the legislation of the time.
“One of the greatest sufferings of my life”
The tweet that presented the video of his appearance before the microphone of the House of Representatives alerted his audience.
“Today at home I relived one of the greatest sufferings of my life. I told how they forced me to carry my dead baby in childbirth, I had to keep my dead son in my body for two more months and I almost died of There’s no going back from that,” she says.
A dream that stops moving
The story of Frederica Wilson, who is now 80 years old, is therefore not the story of an unwanted and improvised pregnancy. On the contrary, as she points out in the opening, as a child she had always imagined herself with children. And at first, it seemed that her dream was on the right track.
“After my marriage in the 1960s, I quickly became pregnant. It was the greatest joy of my life, ecstasy. My husband was in heaven. Boy, move and the beauty of this life grows on me,” she testified.
Unfortunately, after seven months of pregnancy, you stop feeling the movements of the fetus. Heading to the hospital, where the medical profession confirms that he died in her womb.
The doctors can’t do anything for her.
However, the doctors can’t help her: to cause the fetus to come out would be tantamount to aborting the patient, but a few years before the 1973 Roe v. Wade trial, the thing was illegal across the country.
This is the beginning of terrible weeks for Frederica Wilson:
“Je pleurais jour et nuit. all night”.
After eight and a half months, she finally gives birth. After leaving the maternity ward, she arranges a ceremony for herself for the deceased youngster: “We had a little funeral for baby Wilson and the doctors were terrified that my little funeral for myself was coming up soon.” In fact, while she was still carrying the lifeless fetus, practitioners told her that the breakdown of her tissues exposed her to further complications.
Frederica Wilson challenges the Republicans
It will not be by luck and Frederica Wilson later had the happiness of giving life three times, as indicated in her official biographical note. But the octogenarian fears that her younger daughters will cross her fate if the law changes. “Don’t take us back to the days before Roe vs. Wade!,” he told elected Republicans. As the video below shows, he also launched into a more offensive rant:
“We cannot endanger pregnant women by a hateful and grotesque Congress made up mostly of men who don’t know what it’s like to be pregnant, to give birth but are proud to see women vaginal. How dare you? “
Another factor pushed Frederica Wilson to the podium. The parliamentarian explained that she had read a study published last June, which evaluated the consequences of a federal abortion ban on childbirth mortality rates by state. However, it is in Florida, that she chose her, that this rate would be the highest – tied with Georgia – after an increase of 29%, with a predominance of black or Hispanic women among the victims.
Source: BFM TV
