Emotional Plea Against Ohio’s Anti-Abortion Law

Brut America

A new law in Ohio bans abortion as early as six weeks. This woman lawmaker fought it until the bitter end — sharing her great-grandmother’s heartbreaking story.

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00:00She attempted to give herself an abortion and it went horribly wrong and she bled

00:07to death in that bathtub and died. And the person who found her was five-year-old

00:14H.M. who was my grandfather.

00:30She climbed into a bathtub, she ran water and with some sharp object, likely a

00:52coat hanger, we don't know, she attempted to give herself an abortion and it went

00:59horribly wrong and she bled to death in that bathtub and died. And the person who

01:06found her was five-year-old H.M. who was my grandfather. And that event impacted

01:16my family for two generations. The trauma that he experienced on that day he dealt

01:22with for the rest of his life. And here we are, in this year, in this body, 80

01:31years later and we are now talking about creating a situation again in this state

01:40where my daughter, who is only two and a half years old at this point, will

01:45possibly be faced with the same lack of decisions that my great-grandmother

01:50faced in 1939. I take that very personally.

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