This took guts. Thank you for not staying silent, Paxton.

@time4kind @HillaryClinton In the 50's, my Mom who was an RN and worked in the OR of a large hospital, became pro-choice because of what she saw when abortions were banned. Knitting needles, crochet hooks, spraying lysol, coat hangers, etc.

@NotGlinda @HillaryClinton My friend stabbed and stabbed and stabbed herself with a knitting needle. There was a flood of blood.

@time4kind @HillaryClinton I've witnessed that as well. Why are these men making laws that we women have to abide by - I do know, I'm getting really pissy.

@kiesm @HillaryClinton What is the word I most want as Merriam's Word-of-the-Year?? .. post-patriarchy ..

@time4kind @HillaryClinton Had a similar situation with a room mate in a house of 5 women. It was a nightmare one never forgets and never stops fighting and voting to ensure no one else has to have that experience or that memory.

@time4kind @HillaryClinton In the 60s, as a college freshman, we had dorm meetings where our student advisors would give the names of drs whose abortion patients usually died and warned us never to go to them. They knew abortions happened. Keeping us from unsafe ones.

@time4kind @HillaryClinton People have abortions even when it means risking their lives. Making abortion illegal does not stop any abortions — it just makes them dangerous.

@time4kind @HillaryClinton How about don’t try and give yourself an abortion, how ignorant is that? How about have some accountability for your actions and give the baby to a family that can’t have one. This is what’s wrong in this world, it’s all about self and not someone else.

@time4kind @HillaryClinton Such a hard decision to make at such a young age... actually, at any age.

@time4kind @HillaryClinton I think what many don't get, is the Republican politicians don't CARE if the female dies. They'll think she deserves it. I center my arguments around the females I knew who couldn't get abortions, so they did drugs consumed excessive alcohol and cigarettes hoping the baby...

@time4kind @HillaryClinton Thank you for telling your story. People have forgotten how awful it was.

@time4kind @HillaryClinton There is no such thing as a “safe abortion” - it still causes loss and pain both physically and emotionally...

@time4kind @HillaryClinton Please a hand to Valedictorian Paxton Smith for having the “courage of the butterfly”: Paxton “Give Freedom Wings”