“I had psyched myself up and I feel totally let down.”
By Dave Andrusko
Cleaning boss Heidi Buckman has been waiting two months for her abortion (Image: Heidi Buckman/SWNS)
As the saying goes, just when you think you’ve heard everything…
The headline reads “Mum’s agonising wait after cancelled dates follow failed abortion.”
The “mum” is an interesting choice of words, given Heidi Buckman’s annoyance that she wasn’t able to no longer be a “mum” fast enough.
But to be fair, she does have two daughters with her ex-husband. The baby she is trying so hard to eliminate is from a relationship with her partner of seven years.
The gist is that Ms. Buckman’s first attempt (at nine weeks, after an initial delay of two weeks) to abort her child using a chemical abortifacient failed. So when the British publications the Daily Express learned this week that due to “staff illness and cancellations” Buckman won’t get her abortion for another two weeks (meaning her unborn baby will be 17 weeks old when Buckman finally “succeeds), it published a highly sympathetic account about the “distraught mother.”
“I’m so upset,” Buckman told Laura Elvin. “I can’t think about anything else at the moment. I did not come to the conclusion of doing this lightly, but I had psyched myself up and I feel totally let down.”
Warming to the task, Buckman says, “Now it will be another two weeks – if indeed it actually happens – as I have totally lost faith.”
A spokesperson for Marie Stopes UK, the huge abortion chain which carries out most abortions for the British National Health Service, told Elvin
“While medical abortion [chemical abortion] is highly effective, around two per cent will require further treatment to end the pregnancy. We make sure this is explained to every woman.
“We also know any delay to treatment can be worrying. Occasionally staff sickness means that we need to reschedule appointments and we work closely with women to ensure they can receive treatment at the earliest opportunity.”
There’s more to story, “My kids have started to ask, ‘Why have you got a tummy?’” Buckman tells Elvin, adding “and the stress I am under is really putting a strain on my relationship.”
Speaking of Marie Stopes UK and without the slightest recognition of the irony, she complains, “I feel like they don’t care. I’m just a number to them.”