"I can’t take any more pain."

[Content Note: Mandated ultrasound; termination of a wanted pregnancy; misogyny.]

Carolyn Jones writes in the Texas Observer about her painful decision to terminate a wanted pregnancy in Texas, and the experience of doing so, in the wake of Texas' anti-abortion legislation, including its recently-enacted mandatory ultrasound law.

I'm not even going to excerpt it. Just go read the whole thing.

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