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A lawmaker from the state of Georgia held a viral speech Saturday in which she described in personal terms her difficulties with the pregnancy while denouncing the bill of abortion "beating her heart" of the state.
State Sen. Jen Jordan (D) blamed the chamber last week before the body finally votes to pass the law banning abortions after the detection of a fetal heartbeat.
The bill was finally approved Friday by the House of Representatives, who then sent the bill to Governor Brian Kemp (R) for it to sign.
"My husband and I discussed this bill the other night and he told me that he did not want me to share anything personal because no one had the right to receive this information, "Jordan said. "And I've always fiercely kept my intimacy, but … the darkest and darkest periods of my life have unfolded in the presence and with my doctor."
The Democrat then explained that she had been pregnant 10 times but that she had given birth only twice.
"I lost seven pregnancies at different times before 20 weeks and one after five months, she called Juliet," Jordan said.
The legislator said he was lying on a medical examination table while a doctor was desperately looking for "heartbeats."
"I was escorted by the back door of my doctor's office so as not to upset other pregnant women in the waiting room, my grief was visible and uncontrollable," she said.
Jordan stated that throughout her losses, she has "never departed from the basic principle that every woman – every woman – must be able to make her decisions, in consultation with her God and her family."
"It is not up to the government or the men in this assembly to interfere in the most personal, private and heartbreaking decisions of every day," Jordan told his colleagues.
Although the legislator stated that her personal experiences were not about abortions, she said that women's right to privacy is "at stake" with the bill.
"The ability of a woman to decide to terminate a pregnancy involves the most intimate and personal decisions that a person can make," she said. "At the heart of freedom lies the right to define one's own concept of meaning, the universe and the mystery of human life".
"God chose single women to be the trustees of life, not the government, not this body." – State Sen. @senatorjen emotionally pleaded for the right to choose a woman by sharing her own difficulties with pregnancy pic.twitter.com/sJPW3RpgMX
– NowThis (@nowthisnews) March 28, 2019
Jordan's speech began circulating online on Saturday, garnering millions of views on social media one day after Georgia House approved the legislation.
Current legislation allows women to apply for an abortion during the 20 weeks of their pregnancy. If adopted, this measure could limit abortions to six weeks, even before many women know that they are pregnant.
Legislation provides exceptions for incest and rape, but only when the woman files a police report for the first time, the Associated Press reported.
It also allows exceptions to save the mother's life or if it has been determined that the fetus would not be viable outside the mother's womb because of serious medical problems.
Kemp said that he will sign the bill.
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