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| Emily Letts |
Emily Letts, 25, has filmed herself having a surgical abortion and posted the video on YouTube, saying she wants it to help banish stigma surrounding the procedure. She explains in an article for Cosmopolitan.com that she hadn't been using any birth control and 'wound up pregnant' by mistake last November.
In her three-minute YouTube video she is seen being wheeled into the operating theater before being filmed from the waist up as doctors remove the embryo from her womb. She remains awake throughout, numbed only by local anesthetic.
Because she was only in the first trimester of pregnancy, Miss Letts says that she could have swallowed an abortion pill instead of going in for surgery. However, she 'wanted to do the one that women were most afraid of.'
She reflects: 'I wanted to show it wasn’t scary - and that there is such a thing as a positive abortion story. It’s 'I don’t feel like a bad person. I don’t feel sad,' she explains, pointing out that many of the patients at her clinic assume that everyone feels guilty after having an abortion.
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