"Pre-Roe v Wade, Debbie Reynolds was forced to remain pregnant with dead fetus-It almost killed her"

[kpete]

A resurfaced interview shows the late Hollywood legend Debbie Reynolds—the star of such classics as Singin' in the Rain and The Unsinkable Molly Brown—sharing a story about her near-death experience being forced to carry a dead fetus to term in the time before Roe v. Wade.

The interview received renewed attention in the days since the United States Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe, the 1973 landmark decision that once protected a person's right to choose reproductive healthcare without excessive government restriction.

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. This is appalling. Horrible. Disgusting. WRONG. n/t

[Maraya1969]

2. My mom told me that happened to a friend of her also. And when I needed an abortion she

supported me and drove me to the appointment.

[dalton99a]

3. Kick

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Missed this when it happened but still appalled at the thought...

of doctors refusing to deal with a dead baby endangering a woman's life because of what some politician decreed out of ignotance.

Politicians were once thought to assist or ensure the lives and well-being of their constituents.

[DLevine]

5. Horrific.

Can't believe we're still having to fight for our basic human rights. JFC.

[calimary]

8. Ain't that the truth.

My favorite protest sign was in a photograph of a woman at a protest March. The sign read:
“I CANNOT BELIEVE I STILL HAVE TO PROTEST THIS SHIT.”

The next sign I make for our protests up here may have to be a copy of that one.

[Bayard]

6. K&R

[Tetrachloride]

7. I know a similar situation 150 yards from me and it was 15 years ago.

[Ilsa]

10. Religious, small hospital and doctor, who maybe was a GP?

I'm trying to imagine where, other than Ireland for example, this could happen.

[Warpy]

12. Catholic hospitals have pulled this shit all along

They've also refused to terminate life threatening ectopic pregnancies, preferring to wait until they ru0ture and the woman starts to bleed out, her pain and near death far less important than continuing a pregnancy that has no chance of going to term. Women have bled out and died on the way to the shitty Catholic hospital. It's not a bug, it's a feature and it happens in big cities.

Most Catholic countries with Catholic laws on the books do this shit. Rome has a lot to answer for.

[LiberalArkie]

14. The life of the woman, the life of the child that was hatched is important. Because it is only

the souls that are important. Right or wrong, that is what they believe.

[Warpy]

26. Oh, balls, they knocked the theological underpinnings out from under that argument

when they did away with Limbo. Unbaptized babies now go to heaven, which means those in the uterus, also, should they be evicted by nature or design. Aborting those "souls" does them a massive favor, since their ticket for heaven is punched and they are in no jeopardy of hellfire or Satan's pitchfork.

Still, Rome persists in treating the female half of the human population as nothing more than breeding stock, to be despised unless they are virginal or pregnant.

And they wonder why I stomped off in sheer disgust at the ripe old age of ten.

[childfreebychoice]

20. Catholics have been insidiously buying rural hospitals

For yrs. Women all over amerikkka are in danger

[LiberalArkie]

28. And Baptist hospitals, I believe Adventist ones also.

[CharleyDog]

9. This happened to my mother. It was 1950. It was horrific, I'm sure. Then, it happened to her

again, another pregnancy the next year. Another fetus died, she was Rh negative, but of course it was not known then. Pregnancy as serious as the graveyard, and she feared it, but got pregnant again in the late 50s and she and the baby barely survived with multiple blood transfusions.

They told her with both stillbirths she HAD to endure the dead fetus until 9 months even if she died. They told her that. I gathered that she felt humiliated by medical staff (and her MIL) for the dead babies like she was a failure and was made to suffer for her failure.

[maryellen99]

11. It happened to Barbara Eden as well nt

[iluvtennis]

13. 😳😳😳 How disgusting - forced to carry a dead baby for 7 1/2 months. Women have been treated

terribly in this country.

[LittleGirl]

16. Actually, the baby died at 7.5 months gestation

And they made her wait until the 9th month of gestation to remove the fetus so about 6 weeks! The dead fetus decomposing in her womb put toxins in her bloodstream that took months to recover from!

The next pregnancy was a repeat only that time they didn’t make her wait those 6 weeks. They took the dead fetus out.

She had more children after that, I believe. Poor woman. I can’t even.

[iluvtennis]

17. Thanks for clarifying for me @LittleGirl -- much appreciated.

[LittleGirl]

19. You're welcome, my nephew

Died the same way. My SIL was 7.5 months pregnant and felt no movement. Rushed to hospital and the baby was eventually taken and was revived. Lived 10 minutes and died again. My SIL did not have to wait. Mid-80s.

[iluvtennis]

24. Thank goodness your sister's termination was handled properly.

[LittleGirl]

25. He was very much wanted second child

We had a funeral for him.

[ananda]

15. That happened to my aunt's mother.

She had to deliver an infant who had been
dead awhile.

It affected her psychologically.

She was never the same since.

[LittleGirl]

18. A decomposing fetus can poison

Your body. I’m sure it affected her brain. Poor thing.

[childfreebychoice]

21. Happened to friend's daughter yrs ago. She was 8 months

Pregnant when fetus died, my friend say she was in delivery room, when fetus delivered...smelled like rotting flesh. Her daughter never got preg again, and ended up getting divorce

[Ilsa]

27. Early 1990s a married friend's wanted pregnancy ended at

13 weeks, no heartbeat. Her OB tried to schedule her D&C (abortion) for the following week. She would have NONE of that, and managed to get scheduled for two days later. "Get this dead thing out of me," was what she told the dr.

[childfreebychoice]

22. An unintended consequence of overturning roe

My goddaughter, in hopkins med school to be ob/gyn, says friends in med schools in red states studying for same, are afraid they won't be trained in D&C, D&E-evacuation. Said some professors are afraid their programs will lose accreditation. So if u have kids thinking about becoming ob/gyn, better think hard about going to red state med schools

[Hermit-The-Prog]

23. Christofascists and the Subversive Court must be stopped. GOTV, enlighten.