Some abortions are done via D&C, but all D&C procedures are not abortions. Abortion by definition is the removal of the uterine contents due to termination of a pregnancy. OP was not pregnant at 17. She had a medical condition repaired. This is no more an abortion than having a hemorrhoid removed.

Next time abortion comes up, change the subject to something less divisive, like politics, or the death penalty 😁

Doesn't the Bible actually contain instructions on how to perform an abortion? Either way this self-righteous bullying hypocrite got what she deserved. I'd have stopped talking to her years ago.

This story hits home. I know a pro lifer who has had 3 abortion and thinks it murder. But she is born again, so she is saved.

I wonder how well her marriage is going now, schadenfreude 100

What a surprise the holier than thou christian is a hypocrite.

I wish folks would stop using the flattering term "pro-life" and instead use the more accurate "anti-abortion".

A D&C in NOT an abortion. This women needs to learn what she's talking about - because she's wrong. I had a D&C to help stop heavy bleeding. There was absolutely nothing in my uterus that was "aborted".

NTA. Sis pointed the finger, but forgot she had 3 pointed back at her.

Hypocrites need to be called at at every chance.

To be clear about one minor point - saying you’re ok with abortion when it comes to the life of the mother means that all you care about is whether the mom is alive or dead. What if the mom’s health is severely affected but she’s not in mortal danger? I just hate the “life of the mother” argument.

Well, at the very least, perhaps people in the family will stop bringing up highly controversial topics over meals. It was an inappropriate topic to have over a meal and having that discussion won't change anyone's mind so why are they having it? Sister got what was coming for her. These views are putting women in danger and putting women through a ton of trauma over religion which should not be happening in a secular society. How many pro-life people judge other women for their private health matters but still go get abortions themselves? Nonsense.

NTA. If she doesn't want people to point fingers at her, then she should also not point fingers at others. If she points, then she better have the courage to accept being pointed at or keep her mouth shut. Remind her Newton's third law.

They are religious, it's called an eye for an eye, lol.

Sister needs to go to therapy. When you can't shut up about the subject it's because you haven't come to terms with it. And if she's surrounded by such a judgmental, fundamentalist lot that this topic is brought up in church, she definitely didn't have the time and space to heal. Abortion, even when it needs to be done due to medical reasons, weighs on the mind. And if you are pro-life, or come from a fundamentalist environment, then it's probably even harder. I am 100% on OP's side because I'm also pretty hot-headed and abhor hypocrisy, so I probably would have done the same. But the sister needs to be shown a bit of grace and needs to be offered the help she so clearly needs.

A D&C isn't solely an abortive procedure, as mentioned by op's fistula removal. Her stepsister was the real a*****e. FAFO.

NTA. Consider no contact. Religious nutcases need to hit - no, be thrown at - Rock Bottom, and if that doesn't cure them, just repeat it. Learn from them - what do they do after some camp to de-homo homosexual minors who can't defend them against such, fail to make them hetero? A worse camp! Pray the Gay Away! So ... shatter their world. Shatter their surrounding, and expose her EVERYWHERE - because she deserves it. NTA isn't close enough to how much of TA Sister and Broter-in-Law are - being Antichoice is wrong as, in and of itself, judging the "murder" of a few cells is just short of calling ejaculating aimlessly as genoicide, and that so-called standard, so-called ethic, needs to be shattered into the tiny fragments of which it isn't worth one as long as it's whole. Taste a spoonful of their own, precisely aimed at antichoicer who choiced, which they spill in the gallons at everyone who doesn't care for their Blabla, is not even anywhere near enough, but it's a nice start.

Your sister cannot seem to take what she dishes out. Also, remind her of what Jesus said in Matthew 7:1, Judge not, that you be not judged. (Oops)

NTA, and **** her sister. Even if there is such thing as a god/God, how could a lowly mortal person ever hope to be able to speak for what that god/God was thinking about someone else? That's hubris of the highest order.

And everyone clapped....

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While I agree lecturing on a medical procedure is an d&@k move but outing someone having an abortion is so much worse. And then to try and take the high road of saying they felt push to reveal it. No this is beyond a disgusting move. All they have done is too reveal what a vial person they are.