Stephanie Jones, a mid-Michigan professional and mother of two, shares her story of receiving lifesaving abortion care in an ad supporting former state Sen. Curtis Hertel (D-East Lansing) for Congress. | Photo courtesy of Hertel for Michigan
Stephanie Jones, 41, is a mid-Michigan professional and a mother of two. In 2016, Jones was pregnant for the second time, when an ectopic pregnancy almost cut her life short.
“We were really excited to be pregnant for a second time. Like many young families, we were just elated and over the moon,” Jones told the Advance in an interview Wednesday.
In an ad released Thursday in support of former state Sen. Curtis Hertel’s (D-East Lansing) congressional campaign, Jones describes losing blood and losing consciousness, as her pregnancy caused her uterus to rupture.
“If I didn’t have an abortion immediately, I would have died,” Jones said in the ad.
Because of the federal protections surrounding abortion, Jones said she was able to access abortion care, telling the Advance that Roe v. Wade , the since-overturned Supreme Court case guaranteeing access to an abortion, had given her a second chance at life.