Ariel Knights, 22, and her fiance adore their 'miracle baby' daughter who was born in September. But doctors had originally warned the couple that a medical condition Knights suffers meant her life was at serious risk if they went ahead with the pregnancy.
She agonized over the decision, but, with a preschool-aged son and a fiance to think of, she called Akron Women's Medical Group and booked in the March 2012 abortion.
'It was a decision I made because my life was in danger,' she said. 'I was put in jeopardy.'
On the morning of her appointment, in March 2012, Knights said women were being herded into the clinic's waiting room like cattle.
'Every seat was full. People were standing,' Knights told the Beacon Journal. 'It was pretty much like a slaughterhouse; it was like OK, next, next.'
She described how, when her name was called, she walked into a cramped room, hopped onto a table and, as instructed, positioned her lower body over a trash bag. When the doctor was finished, and she was still woozy from the sedation, Knights was handed her belongings and shown the door.
'(The doctor) said, "All right, everything's good and clear, everything went well,"' she recalled, thinking that was it.
But days later, she said she became severely ill and in pain. She visited her family doctor then she went to ER where an obstetrician gave her an internal ultrasound.
'The look on (the doctor's) face when he found out, he was like, "Oh my goodness, honey, you're still pregnant,"' she told the Journal. 'My fiance and I, we both were kind of in shock.'
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