Then it starts: Woman Detained for Assisted Abortion of Her Daughter
Be reasonable, Ossiana, my mother pleaded. "They don't want to carry out the surgery."
I declared, "I'm not going to act like negotiating what I want to do with my body or having no control over it is ridiculous. Particularly not after what occurred to me when I was denied an abortion.
I cried for the tenth time because this doctor, my tenth, refused to sterilize me. To make sure I never become pregnant again while living under the government's authoritarian yoke, I was prepared to consider extreme measures.
I was actually considering hurting myself at that time in order to get physicians to sterilize me or remove what
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