Posted:Sun Sep 30, 2007 12:07 PM CST
January 6th 1957
I am sure that some of you are wondering how TicTac was aborted when abortion was not legalized until Monday January 22 1973. She was aborted Sunday January 6th 1957 by accident. The egg donor was a intravenous drug user, and had injected heroin. This time, though, something went wrong. The heroin had been cut with some kind of salt solution that induced delivery. Her egg donor became ill. She did not know that she was pregnant. Some one dropped her off at the ER. Possible the sperm donor. Shortly after admission a nurse thinking that the egg donor needed to go to the bathroom placed a bedpan in the proper location for use, and left the room. When the nursed returned she flicked on the lights and pulled back the covers. She found TicTac in the bedpan moving her arms and legs. The nurse gathered the bedpan with the squirming tiny mass in loose bed covers, and walked slowly down the corridor calling to the other nurses. She did not take her to an intensive care nursery, but deposited her instead on the stainless steel drain board of a sink in the maternity unit's Dirty Utility Room. A large closet where bedpans where emptied and dirty linens stored. Other nurses and a resident doctor gathered. The head nurse telephoned the egg donors Doctor, at home, apparently waking him. "He told them to leave it where it was, and to watch it for a few minutes. It will probably die in a few minutes." The nurses and the resident doctor left her, under a light, in the closet with the dirty linen. A few hours later the Doctor, and a Biologist came to the hospital. She was still alive, so they moved her to a artificial womb that the Biologist had been developing. She became a test case. This was her first job. To reject the accidental abortion and live. The Biologist would later become her adopted step-father. Family, and her first Hall Mark moment.
Some Fiction by Nobody54.