Halsey opens up about having 3 miscarriages: 'My abortion saved my life and gave way for my son to h

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Halsey has opened up about their three miscarriages — one of which necessitated medical intervention to help terminate the pregnancy — in an emotional new essay for Vogue responding to the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade and legally protected abortion rights.

In the essay, titled "My Abortion Saved My Life," the singer-songwriter, who uses she/they pronouns, shares their difficulties in carrying a pregnancy to term. Now 27 and mom to a nearly 1-year-old son named Ender, Halsey had lost three pregnancies by the time she turned 24, she writes.

"It seemed a cruel irony that I could get pregnant with ease but struggled to maintain a pregnancy," Halsey, who has endometriosis, says. "One of my miscarriages required 'aftercare,' a gentle way of saying that I would need an abortion, because my body could not terminate the pregnancy completely on its own and I would risk going into sepsis without medical intervention. During this procedure, I cried. I was afraid for myself and I was helpless. I was desperate to end the pregnancy that was threatening my life."

The Grammy-nominated star reveals that during their third trimester with Ender, who turns 1 on July 17, she rewrote her will in anticipation of more health complications.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/halsey-miscarriages-abortion-vogue-essay-210404417.html

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1. Not to quibble, but a D&C for an incomplete miscarriage is not an abortion

There has already been fetal demise, and this just completes the evacuation of any retained products of conception.

Interestingly, that type of miscarriage is called an incomplete abortion. When one is potentially having a miscarriage (which sometimes takes a few days to diagnose), it is called a threatened abortion.

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2. Do you think the American Taliban will draw such fine distinctions? /nt