Shari Maxwell, a 34-year gynecologist, is committed to defending abortion rights. Here at his office in Dearborn, Michigan on October 21, 2022. ALI LAPETINA FOR M LE MAGAZINE DU MONDE
Shari Maxwell has 34 years of OB/GYN behind her. Listening to her share her memories is to see the women and their suffering in her office at Beaumont Hospital in Dearborn, Michigan.
“I think of a young girl who was gang raped. I think of those poor women in frail health whose pregnancy will greatly aggravate diabetes or heart problems. I am thinking of a woman suffering from very aggressive cancer, we know that chemotherapy and radiation are harmful to the fetus, should she wait nine months for this urgent treatment and risk giving birth to her child and dying? I have to give them the option of an abortion. These are tough decisions. women cry here I have seen some tell me that they would rather pray than have an abortion. It’s her decision and nothing else, but at least we talked about it. What’s going on here is between you and me, and I don’t want anyone but you and me, I don’t want politicians in my cabinet. »
They entered, however, and without breaking in, with the blessing of the US Supreme Court, which abolished federal abortion laws in June. So Shari Maxwell came out of her office with her stories and her steady voice. The gynecologist had never committed before, but she must defend abortion rights, which are still legal but fragile in Michigan.
“You know, as a practitioner, when I think about everything that should be done in this world, I often say to myself: ‘I don’t have time, I’m overwhelmed’, but there I found it, the time. It’s about women. It’s about us. I’ve dedicated my whole life to that. I had to do something. I was devastated when the Supreme Court decision came. I was fed up. I had severe heartburn. how did we get here »
A proposal put to the vote
We could summarize this “there” on the cold homepage of the federal website AbortionFinder.org. “1. Enter your address. 2. Enter the first day of your last period. 3. Enter your age. 4. Click on “Find an abortion center”.
You can get there from the Wisconsin Planned Parenthood website, which now bans abortion, or from the Texas website, which announces, “Following the US Supreme Court decision to break the Roe vs. Wade case law, abortion services are currently being shut down offered at our centers suspended and may be suspended in other states. AbortionFinder.org can send you to the Northeast, to the Great Lakes and the ruins of the industrial age: to Michigan’s doctors and clinics.
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