'I had to make a decision based on the tremendous risks that had been clearly laid out for me,' she wrote in an op-ed for the New York Times.
The Democrat from Washington wrote about her experience giving birth to a child who should not have survived. Born unexpectedly in India weighing a little over a pound, her"miracle" baby required intense constant care. Janak survived, but the pain and stress of taking care of a very sick baby took a toll on Jayapal and her husband, she said.
She and her husband divorced, and she became a single parent while simultaneously building a civil rights organization. Several years later, she remarried and wanted to have more children. However, her doctors warned her that she would most likely have another extremely high-risk pregnancy and her child could suffer.
Millions of people across the country do not have these basic rights that have become luxuries, she noted: Although Democrats have been vocal about preserving abortion access and decrying conservative lawmaker's efforts to strip services from their states, only one other representative has ever publicly opened up about her own experience.
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