by MegaDude 13 Replies latest jw friends
the people I know who work in clinics who perform abortions are very caring and empathetic. they don't "murder babies with glee", as one pro-life person put it. they try to make a sad reality (unwanted pregnancies are a fact of life that can't be ignored) as humane as possible for everyone involved.
I'm sure that some of the Nazi concentration camp officers probably felt the same way, however that didn't make what they did right either.
I'm sure that some of the Nazi concentration camp officers probably felt the same way, however that didn't make what they did right either.
I'm sorry to hear you feel that way. Be assured, as I said in my last post, the majority of people who perform abortions are caring people who do not obtain joy from it. I do not feel it is appropriate to use abortion as a form of birth control. However, there are times when an abortion must be done. Programs like Planned Parenthood ensure that those necessary abortions will be as safe and humane as possible, given the circumstances.
luckynun - it happened in UK in the early 90s.
This was why the British parliament took the maximum termination to that number of weeks.
HB
What really saddens me is the apparent lack of concern for personal safety - infections, falling into bed with just about any one. In fact I get the impression that the so-called selfish EVIL gay men are far more responsible about sexual life-death issues than teenage straights.
I'm not posting the picture, because it's too graphic for this board. however, this story illustrates what happened when abortion was illegal. the stigma pushed many women to wait too long because they were so scared.
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The name of the woman pictured below is Gerri Twerdy Santoro. She was just 28 years old. She was a sister, a daughter, and she was the mother of two daughters when she died a very painful and frightening death.
This New York coroner's picture first appeared in MS Magazine in April 1973. When Gerri's picture appeared in MS, no one knew her name or all the circumstances that surrounded her death from an illegal abortion. While it was assumed that she died at the hands of a back alley butcher, the family later confirmed that she died the way most women died before Roe vs. Wade legalized abortion in this country in 1973; she died from a self-induced abortion attempt.
Gerri was estranged from her abusive husband when she met Clyde Dixon and became pregnant by him. Terrified that once her abusive husband returned to town and learned it was Dixon's baby she was carrying, he would kill her. She was determined and desperate to end her unintended pregnancy. That desperation and determination made her akin to thousands upon thousands of women in those days that were desperate and determined enough to terminate their unintended pregnancies in spite of the fact that abortion was illegal. Illegality affected the safety of abortion but it never affected the number of abortions that were performed.
Gerri was 6 ½ months pregnant in June 1964. Gerri's boyfriend obtained a medical book and borrowed some surgical equipment. They went to a motel where Dixon tried to perform the abortion. When the attempt failed, when it all went terribly wrong, Dixon fled the scene, leaving her there to die, alone, in this cold impersonal hotel room. She was bleeding profusely and tried with towels to stop it but she couldn't. How frightened she must have been, knowing she was going to die. She was found like this, on her stomach with her knees under her, her face not visible, bloody, nude, alone and dead.
Two lives were needlessly and sadly lost here. This horrible sad picture of death makes clear that illegal abortion not only harms and kills women, it has never ever saved one baby.
