To the editor:
I found your article [Brack, Haley’s ambition puts DHEC between rock, hard place] to be amazingly accurate and a reflection of my own thoughts about our governor.
The only issue you didn’t mention was how she will end up with a backache after all that political posturing. I find it incredible that our Republican legislators can think (or just say) that by cutting funds for our contraceptive services they will reduce the number of abortions. How is that rational? I would love for there to be no need for our abortion services, but that is unrealistic. I would love for our law makers to do something so that we will no longer be number one in men killing women, but that is what our legislators are doing when they try to deny safe, legal medical procedures for the women of our state.
I came to South Carolina when abortion was legal but generally unavailable. One of the first patients I encountered in our small community hospital was a 25-year-old black woman who presented with severe abdominal pain and a high fever. After evaluation, I ended up doing exploratory abdominal surgery and found that her three-and-one-half month pregnant uterus had been perforated by a rubber tube that had been inserted by a back alley abortionist. She (I still remember her name) ended up with a complete hysterectomy and, after a month in the hospital, a complete recovery from the almost fatal infection.
Do we really want to go back there? I, for one, don’t. Thanks again for adding a small voice of reason in the face of the crazies. (I didn’t say that.)
— Name withheld upon request
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