Pro-Choice Catholic Testimony

“I found out when I was four months pregnant that the fetus was no longer viable. It had turned into a tumor. I had an abortion to remove this tumor that potentially had cancerous cells. I had monthly blood tests and sonograms for the next few months. The tests were not good, and I had to have a hysterectomy. I can’t even imagine what would happen if I could not have had that abortion. Would that cancerous mass have remained inside me? Would I have developed cancer and left my four-year-old daughter motherless? It was a traumatic experience that could have been so much worse.”