A new law in Ohio bans abortion as early as six weeks. This woman lawmaker fought it until the bitter end — sharing her great-grandmother’s heartbreaking story.
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00:00She attempted to give herself an abortion and it went horribly wrong and she bled
00:07to death in that bathtub and died. And the person who found her was five-year-old
00:14H.M. who was my grandfather.
00:30She climbed into a bathtub, she ran water and with some sharp object, likely a
00:52coat hanger, we don't know, she attempted to give herself an abortion and it went
00:59horribly wrong and she bled to death in that bathtub and died. And the person who
01:06found her was five-year-old H.M. who was my grandfather. And that event impacted
01:16my family for two generations. The trauma that he experienced on that day he dealt
01:22with for the rest of his life. And here we are, in this year, in this body, 80
01:31years later and we are now talking about creating a situation again in this state
01:40where my daughter, who is only two and a half years old at this point, will
01:45possibly be faced with the same lack of decisions that my great-grandmother
01:50faced in 1939. I take that very personally.