Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis writes about terminating pregnancy in new memoir. I am torn between "How brave of her" an Oh shit!"

Courtesy of ABC News:  

Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis reveals in a new campaign memoir that she terminated two pregnancies for medical reasons in the 1990s, including one where the fetus had developed a severe brain abnormality. 

Davis writes in "Forgetting to be Afraid" that she had an abortion after an exam revealed that the brain of the fetus had developed in complete separation on the right and left sides. The Associated Press purchased an early copy of the book, which hits stores Tuesday. 

The memoir also describes ending an earlier ectopic pregnancy, in which an embryo implants outside the uterus. Davis disclosed the terminated pregnancies for the first time since her nearly 13-hour filibuster last year over a tough new Texas abortion law. 

Both pregnancies happened before Davis, a state senator from Fort Worth, began her political career and after she was already a mother to two young girls. 

She writes that the ectopic pregnancy happened in 1994. Terminating the pregnancy was considered medically necessary. Such pregnancies generally aren't considered viable, meaning the fetus can't survive, and the mother's life could be in danger. But Davis wrote that in Texas, it's "technically considered an abortion, and doctors have to report it as such." 

Davis said she and her former husband, Jeff, wound up expecting another child in 1996 after they decided to stop taking birth-control measures. During her second trimester, Davis said she took a blood test that could determine chromosomal or neural defects, which doctors first told her didn't warrant concern. After a later exam revealed the brain defect, Davis said she sought opinions from multiple doctors, who told her the baby would be deaf, blind and in a permanent vegetative state if she survived delivery. 

"I could feel her little body tremble violently, as if someone were applying an electric shock to her, and I knew then what I needed to do," Davis writes. "She was suffering."

Holy crap! Not just one, but two abortions!

Well after reading the descriptions of the problems facing these two unborn children, it seems to me that almost any woman would have made the same choice that Davis did.

However considering that she is running for Governor of a state that has all but criminalized abortion, and the fact that the Right has already labeled her "Abortion Barbie," I ma wondering how this will play out during the campaign. 

Well one thing is fro damn sure, the woman has guts!

I mean she has to know that this will be played up by the Republicans as if she ran down a toddler on the street, not that she made an incredibly personal and heartbreaking choice for herself, the unborn child, and her family.

After all she could have taken the cowards way out and attempted to Wite-Out the whole thing.