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When I was 18 years old I was forcibly sterilized by my father and his MD surgeon friend a 🧵 I wasn't fully able to comprehend what was happening to me due to the fact I had been conditioned my entire life to believe this was my only option.(1
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I was always told I could adopt. It was just what it was and I didn't think or know or even comprehend that there might be other options or that I could even possibly have a baby on my own...but what I wasn't prepared for (2
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was that the medical condition I had that caused men to believe it would be best if I was sterilized, would also keep me from being able to not only adopt but to foster. And while I was told that a cure was 5 years away (it wasn't (3
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what wasn't far off was technology that would allow most women with my condition to successfully carry children to term safely. So really my best option to be a mom was the one taken from me. I'm a product of eugenics, and it took me a long (4
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time to be able to accept that.
So what is my medical condition? I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 1978. (5/5)
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@914Ann
I was born in 1980 and at the behest of caring companionate doctors my mother was given a stress test to determine if the pregnancy would be viable…for those of you that really need a clue.
A treadmill induced abortion…
I was born at 2 lbs 14ozs about halfway through…
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