Posted on 11/29/2005 12:20:26 PM PST by Dick Vomer
Dr. William F. Harrison has forgotten how many children the woman had.
"We try to make sure she doesn't ever feel guilty," he says, "for what she feels she has to do."
"It was a lot easier than I thought it would be," she says. "I thought it would be horrible, but it wasn't. The procedure, that is."
.... She is not yet sure, she says, how she is doing emotionally. She feels guilty, sad and relieved, all in a jumble.
"There's things wrong with abortion," she says. "But I want to have a good life. And provide a good life for my child." To keep this baby now, she says, when she's single, broke and about to start college, "would be unfair." ...........
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For the few women who arrive ambivalent ..., Harrison's nurse has posted statistics on the exam-room mirror: One out of every four pregnant women in the U.S. chooses abortion. A third of all women in this country will have at least one abortion by the time they're 45. ...........
.............. "You think there's room in hell for all those women?" the nurse will ask............
.............. She regrets having to pay $750 for the abortion, but Amanda says she does not doubt her decision. "It's not like it's illegal. It's not like I'm doing anything wrong," she says............
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"I've been praying a lot and that's been a real source of strength for me. I really believe God has a plan for us all. I have a choice, and that's part of my plan."
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.............. The last patient of the day, a 32-year-old college student named Stephanie, has had four abortions in the last 12 years. She keeps forgetting to take her birth control pills. Abortion "is a bummer," she says, "but no big stress." ...........
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it is easier for some to turn a blind eye.
I don't understand either. I've often thought that the doctor who could perform an abortion one time might just either beg for forgiveness or go insane, but one who could do it day after day thousands of times is either one soulless SOB or they are deluding themselves in some kind of dementia.
Doctors who do legal abortions make a tiny fraction of what they could make practicing some other kind of medicine. And quite a few make their living practicing other kinds of medicine, and just do abortions on the side as a public service. They're definitely not in it for the money. I had a college friend who went to medical school specifically so she could help make abortions more readily available. By the time she finished residency she understood that it was impossible to earn enough money doing abortions to even pay back her student loans, never mind buy fancy cars (which she didn't want anyway). Last time I checked, she was working in the women's health center of a large university, making sure students had easy access to contraceptives, and giving referrals to abortion clinics, but not doing any herself.
Why no, we'd rather have her keep her legs together, but "birth control" and backstop abortion, the culture you praise, have taught her that self-control is impossible. We'd also rather have the man or men who keep impregnating her bear some responsibility, but "birth control" and backstop abortion have taught them that women's bodies are their playtoys and that women are "sperm dumpsters".
I don't know any pro-lifers who scr*w around. Most of us raise our kids to be good citizens, teach our kids to save sex until marriage, and try to be good spouses to our husbands or wives. Don't blame us for Stephanie's behavior. It's enabled, supported, and promoted by the loose sex, "birth control", and backstop abortion culture you endorse.
Killing Stephanie's kids fixes the problem only in the bizarre world where two wrongs make a right.
I don't know what kind of warped world you live in that you can, with a straight face, call dismembering children a "public service," but I'm mighty glad I'll never live there.
I see you have completely ignored all the links & information that I provided per your request. Im not really suprised. Abortion is a an act of cowderess supprted by cowards themselves.
These women are cold. Real cold. Kill your own offspring? No problem! Keep your pants zipped? You gotta be kidding!
Have YOU had an abortion?
I was not aborted -- if that is what you are asking.
to quote:
"I thought it would be horrible, but it wasn't. The procedure, that is." Well, maybe not for you ma'am.
So, since you seem like such an expert about how the procedure goes, and its effect on the body and mind, I naturally assumed you must have had one.
I think he meant the procudere isnt hard on the mother, but the procedure was fatal for the child. It was tongue in cheek.
ok..I admit that went right over my head....
its happens :)
No, actually I think you should be put in charge of the Federal Genome and Parenting Department where you can make sure that the people you deem unfit can't ever breed. But, at some point your FGPD would probably come after me because I don't fit your parenting mold. At that time, I'd probably go down shooting your jack-booted thugs.
And maybe next time you shouldn't read into what I said, which was pretty clear.
And good riddance. Yet another exercising of "choices," it would seem.
I know, I know - bit this stuff affects me differently now that I have a child of my own.
Just wow.
They're definitely not in it for the money. I had a college friend who went to medical school specifically so she could help make abortions more readily available.
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By the time she finished residency she understood that it was impossible to earn enough money doing abortions to even pay back her student loans,
Bummer. I figured sadistic hedonism would pay better.
pro-life ping
Like Charles Manson.... He felt he HAD TO DO IT!
Whell why not just execute the women instead?
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