“The whole first day was counseling and testing to make sure it was safe to do the procedure. They want to make sure you completely understand what is going to happen and that no one is pressuring you into the decision.

At the end of the day, I signed all the paperwork, and the doctor injected the baby with a drug that, over a few hours, slowed her heart to still. It was a very, very difficult day. Euthanizing the baby is, obviously, a very hard thing to do. 

After the injection, he asked how I was feeling, and I just said, “I feel so sad. I’m going to miss her.”

I don’t want any damage done to my baby. I want to hold them and cuddle them and do all the things we’d do with a natural still born....

I’ve read that having the euthanasia (for lack of better term) could be done at one of these clinics and I could return to my state for L&D of the “still born.”

... The idea of getting on a plane or doing a 2 day drive after losing my baby really scares and concerns me. Id still be bleeding, I’d be very raw emotionally, again in a new unfamiliar place, being away from medical help if it’s needed and flying would require being around other people.

Two things to add:

First, there have been some post-Dobbs challenges coordinating this kind of care with hospitals in TX.

Discuss with your doctor if they'd have any issue taking care of you after an injection. Sometimes I've had doctors tell me "it's fine we'll just have her show up on L&D and act like it happened on its own." I don't like that. I don't want you needing to keep any secrets from any part of your care team...

Second, there are also MFM offices that can do them with your husband present and possibly for a lower cost to you. The challenge is that they don't advertise.

... I had to go on my gut and move quickly... at that clinic, we began the procedure with euthanizing injection, so I never got to meet my baby earthside.

I did get to view her body, and that was important to me, but there was a part of me which grieved mightily for never holding her, living, in my arms....

I was 36 weeks. The process was identical to giving birth of my full term babies, only shorter labor and quicker recovery.

The process is birth: induced stillbirth... I had euthanizing injection day 1. Day 2 and 3 were laminaria (10 minute appointments that were not comfortable but were also not long), and then was induced Day 4.

Was in labor for 2.5 hours then started pushing spontaneously and was rushed to delivery. Baby was out very quickly...

I had to travel from Boston to Colorado to access the abortion care that I needed to give my baby peace...

I was in my 36th week of pregnancy for the 4-day outpatient procedure. It was absolutely devastating, but it was humane. It was gentle. It was kind.

I was able to induce a stillbirth through euthanizing injection, and then very gradual dilation and induction of labor. I came home to my 30th birthday with an empty womb and empty arms and the enormous weight of taboo on my shoulders. The hardest thing I hope I ever have to experience.

So given the choice between c-section birth into a cascade of painful medical interventions that we could not legally refuse vs. termination, my decision was crystal clear.

My procedure went like this:

Day 1: patient education and euthanizing injection

Day 2: laminaria insertion (like 10 minute procedure)

Day 3: old laminaria out, new laminaria in (another 10 min)

Day 4: induction of labor and vaginal delivery without anesthesia. Of my 3 births, my birth at the clinic was by far the easiest... Dr. Hern did a quick sweep of my uterus with suction to prevent retained placenta and other complications. I was able to eliminate within a half an hour...

Kathryn K. was 32 weeks pregnant when she sat in a room with “six doctors and medical professionals” at Denver Children’s Hospital...

The team referred Kathryn to Dr. Hern, who first reviewed her file with the doctors in Denver and then performed his own ultrasound and exam before euthanizing the fetus and inducing labor at 34 weeks.

We sedate the patient and euthanize their fetus, their baby, with an injection. The fetus passes away, doesn’t feel anything.

It is hardly news that, when the Supreme Court legalized abortion on demand in 1973, many predicted that infanticide, euthanasia, and other horrors would soon follow.

The logic of the Court’s “quality of life ethic” clearly applies to human life at any stage. It only remains to legalize the “right to die” of “competent” persons and the “right” of parents to be rid of offspring that fail to meet their expectations, etc.

It has long been obvious that there are plenty of doctors willing to collaborate (even instigate) the process of deliberately killing those whom German doctors — pioneers in the advocacy of such “treatment” even before Hitler came to power — once described as living lives “not worthy to be lived.”

“The whole first day was counseling and testing to make sure it was safe to do the procedure. They want to make sure you completely understand what is going to happen and that no one is pressuring you into the decision.

At the end of the day, I signed all the paperwork, and the doctor injected the baby with a drug that, over a few hours, slowed her heart to still. It was a very, very difficult day. Euthanizing the baby is, obviously, a very hard thing to do. 

After the injection, he asked how I was feeling, and I just said, “I feel so sad. I’m going to miss her.”

I don’t want any damage done to my baby. I want to hold them and cuddle them and do all the things we’d do with a natural still born....

I’ve read that having the euthanasia (for lack of better term) could be done at one of these clinics and I could return to my state for L&D of the “still born.”

... The idea of getting on a plane or doing a 2 day drive after losing my baby really scares and concerns me. Id still be bleeding, I’d be very raw emotionally, again in a new unfamiliar place, being away from medical help if it’s needed and flying would require being around other people.

Two things to add:

First, there have been some post-Dobbs challenges coordinating this kind of care with hospitals in TX.

Discuss with your doctor if they'd have any issue taking care of you after an injection. Sometimes I've had doctors tell me "it's fine we'll just have her show up on L&D and act like it happened on its own." I don't like that. I don't want you needing to keep any secrets from any part of your care team...

Second, there are also MFM offices that can do them with your husband present and possibly for a lower cost to you. The challenge is that they don't advertise.

... I had to go on my gut and move quickly... at that clinic, we began the procedure with euthanizing injection, so I never got to meet my baby earthside.

I did get to view her body, and that was important to me, but there was a part of me which grieved mightily for never holding her, living, in my arms....

I was 36 weeks. The process was identical to giving birth of my full term babies, only shorter labor and quicker recovery.

The process is birth: induced stillbirth... I had euthanizing injection day 1. Day 2 and 3 were laminaria (10 minute appointments that were not comfortable but were also not long), and then was induced Day 4.

Was in labor for 2.5 hours then started pushing spontaneously and was rushed to delivery. Baby was out very quickly...

I had to travel from Boston to Colorado to access the abortion care that I needed to give my baby peace...

I was in my 36th week of pregnancy for the 4-day outpatient procedure. It was absolutely devastating, but it was humane. It was gentle. It was kind.

I was able to induce a stillbirth through euthanizing injection, and then very gradual dilation and induction of labor. I came home to my 30th birthday with an empty womb and empty arms and the enormous weight of taboo on my shoulders. The hardest thing I hope I ever have to experience.

So given the choice between c-section birth into a cascade of painful medical interventions that we could not legally refuse vs. termination, my decision was crystal clear.

My procedure went like this:

Day 1: patient education and euthanizing injection

Day 2: laminaria insertion (like 10 minute procedure)

Day 3: old laminaria out, new laminaria in (another 10 min)

Day 4: induction of labor and vaginal delivery without anesthesia. Of my 3 births, my birth at the clinic was by far the easiest... Dr. Hern did a quick sweep of my uterus with suction to prevent retained placenta and other complications. I was able to eliminate within a half an hour...

Kathryn K. was 32 weeks pregnant when she sat in a room with “six doctors and medical professionals” at Denver Children’s Hospital...

The team referred Kathryn to Dr. Hern, who first reviewed her file with the doctors in Denver and then performed his own ultrasound and exam before euthanizing the fetus and inducing labor at 34 weeks.

We sedate the patient and euthanize their fetus, their baby, with an injection. The fetus passes away, doesn’t feel anything.

It is hardly news that, when the Supreme Court legalized abortion on demand in 1973, many predicted that infanticide, euthanasia, and other horrors would soon follow.

The logic of the Court’s “quality of life ethic” clearly applies to human life at any stage. It only remains to legalize the “right to die” of “competent” persons and the “right” of parents to be rid of offspring that fail to meet their expectations, etc.

It has long been obvious that there are plenty of doctors willing to collaborate (even instigate) the process of deliberately killing those whom German doctors — pioneers in the advocacy of such “treatment” even before Hitler came to power — once described as living lives “not worthy to be lived.”