K Monica Kelly had to travel to Florida for an abortion after her fetus was diagnosed with trisomy 13 – now she’s part of a group suing her state

K Monica Kelly had to travel to Florida for an abortion after her fetus was diagnosed with trisomy 13 – now she’s part of a group suing her state

When K Monica Kelly saw that women in Texas had filed a lawsuit challenging the contours of their state’s abortion ban, she posted on Instagram to cheer them on.

“I shared how terrible I thought it was, that they weren’t able to get the proper healthcare they needed in their state,” Kelly said. “It never crossed my mind that that was actually going to happen to me soon.”

Kelly and her husband spent a year trying to have a second baby. So when they discovered in February 2023 that Kelly was pregnant, the couple was ecstatic. They taught their son, who was then two years old, to describe their family as: “Mama, dada, me, baby, all four!” After an ultrasound looked promising, and they drove more than 10 hours from their home in northern Tennessee to announce the news to their family in Florida.

Only days later, after they’d returned home, in late March, the pair drove back to Florida. This time, though, the drive was “surreal and devastating”, Kelly said. A series of catastrophic fetal diagnoses had led Kelly to decide to get an abortion – a procedure she could not legally get in Tennessee.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
    327·
    11 months ago

    These are the moments when the excuses people make for Democrats at the Federal level just ring in my ears.

    It shouldn’t even be possible for a state to commit this kind of oppression toward a person, but it is, because over and over again we give Democrats power and they only really use it to get wealthier or help their golf buddies get wealthier.

      • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
        313·
        11 months ago

        I know this is going to be hard for you to wrap your head around… but there are three branches of government.

        I know.

        Crazy.

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
      131·
      11 months ago

      So Republicans voted in Trump who campaigned on overturning Roe V Wad. Trump then put conservative justices in to overturn Roe V Wade just like he promised

      Republicans have a Senate Majority which is necessary to pass any laws. Republicans control the majority of states which would be necessary to pass a Constitutional amendment.

      But it the Democrats that are at fault?

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        11 months ago

        Democrats have a majority in the Senate. It’s pretty telling that it’s indistinguishable from a Republican majority to Democrats’ apologists.