WATCH: US Woman Posts Video Of Her Abortion As It Happened On YouTube
A 25-year-old abortion counselor has filmed herself having a surgical abortion and posted the video on YouTube, saying she wants it to help banish stigma surrounding the procedure.
Emily Letts, who works at the Cherry Hill Women's Center in New Jersey, explains in an article for Cosmopolitan.com that ironically, despite being a s*x educator, she hadn't been using any birth control and 'wound up pregnant' by mistake last November.
In her three-minute YouTube video she is seen being wheeled into the operating theater before being filmed from the waist up as doctors remove the embryo from her womb. She remains awake throughout, numbed only by local anesthetic.
The video has been watched 36,000 times and has prompted strong reactions from pro-life campaigners as well as those supporting Miss Letts' actions.
Because she was only in the first trimester of pregnancy, Miss Letts says that she could have swallowed an abortion pill instead of going in for surgery.
However, she 'wanted to do the one that women were most afraid of.'
'I wanted to show it wasn’t scary - and that there is such a thing as a appositive abortion story. It’s my story,' she said
Emily Letts, who works at the Cherry Hill Women's Center in New Jersey, explains in an article for Cosmopolitan.com that ironically, despite being a s*x educator, she hadn't been using any birth control and 'wound up pregnant' by mistake last November.
In her three-minute YouTube video she is seen being wheeled into the operating theater before being filmed from the waist up as doctors remove the embryo from her womb. She remains awake throughout, numbed only by local anesthetic.
The video has been watched 36,000 times and has prompted strong reactions from pro-life campaigners as well as those supporting Miss Letts' actions.
Because she was only in the first trimester of pregnancy, Miss Letts says that she could have swallowed an abortion pill instead of going in for surgery.
However, she 'wanted to do the one that women were most afraid of.'
'I wanted to show it wasn’t scary - and that there is such a thing as a appositive abortion story. It’s my story,' she said
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