article_snippet.sent: The Ohio woman has spoken out in a Reddit Q&A about why She and her Catholic husband her Catholic husband made the painful decision to have a legal abortion at 23 weeks.
article_snippet.sent: In March, the couple were looking forward to the 20-week anatomy scan.
article_snippet.sent: At about five months along, The Ohio woman wasn't showing yet, and though The Ohio woman family assured it was just because The Ohio woman had an athletic body, The Ohio woman explained: 'Things just felt wrong, felt off.'
article_snippet.sent: On April 1, The Ohio woman and The Ohio woman husband went to The Ohio woman OB-GYN for the planned anatomy scan.
article_snippet.sent: In their state of Ohio, abortion is legal until 24 weeks - but that doesn't compel all doctors to perform all doctors.
article_snippet.sent: The Ohio woman tracked down the only doctor in The Ohio woman city who offered abortions.
article_snippet.sent: The Ohio woman was approved for the abortion, and quickly started taking steps toward having the procedure. '
article_snippet.sent: First, The Ohio woman had to have three to four sticks of laminaria, a form of kelp, inserted into The Ohio woman cervix to begin dilation, which The Ohio woman describes as 'pretty uncomfortable'.
article_snippet.sent: After going home for the night, where The Ohio woman experienced cramping, The Ohio womanwent back to the clinic with The Ohio woman husband the next day to have the procedureunder general anaesthesia. '
article_snippet.sent: The Ohio woman wonders how Mother's Day, which is on May 10, will feel and how The Ohio woman'll cope on the baby's due date, but The Ohio woman knows that she and her husband made the right decision. '
highlights_snippet.sent: The Ohio woman and The Ohio woman Catholic husband had to get special approval for a doctor at Catholic hospital to perform the procedure .
  