Posted on 11/30/2005 1:58:23 PM PST by Deo volente
He calls himself an "abortionist" and says, "I am destroying life."
But he also feels he's giving life: He calls his patients "born again."
"When you end what the woman considers a disastrous pregnancy, she has literally been given her life back," he says.
Before giving up obstetrics in 1991, Harrison delivered 6,000 babies. Childbirth, he says, should be joyous; a woman should never consider it a punishment or an obligation.
"We try to make sure she doesn't ever feel guilty," he says, "for what she feels she has to do."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
I wonder if he thought that Paul Hill should have felt guilty for what he felt he had to do.
A real hero in the eyes of the LA Times, no doubt.
His first patient of the day, Sarah, 23, says it never occurred to her to use birth control, though she has been sexually active for six years. When she became pregnant this fall, Sarah, who works in real estate, was in the midst of planning her wedding. "I don't think my dress would have fit with a baby in there," she says.
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."
I just don't know what to say,
Another excerpt:
The doctor is wearing a black turtleneck, brown slacks and tennis shoes. He snaps his gum as he checks the monitors displaying the patient's pulse rate and oxygen count.
"This is not going to be nearly as hard as you anticipate," he tells her.
She smiles wanly. Keeping up a constant patter — he asks about her brothers, her future birth control plans, whether she's good at tongue twisters — Harrison pulls on sterile gloves.
"How're you doing up there?" he asks.
"Doing OK."
"Good girl."
Harrison glances at an ultrasound screen frozen with an image of the fetus taken moments before. Against the fuzzy black-and-white screen, he sees the curve of a head, the bend of an elbow, the ball of a fist.
"You may feel some cramping while we suction everything out," Harrison tells the patient.
A moment later, he says: "You're going to hear a sucking sound."
The abortion takes two minutes. The patient lies still and quiet, her eyes closed, a few tears rolling down her cheeks. The friend who has accompanied her stands at her side, mutely stroking her arm.
When he's done, Harrison performs another ultrasound. The screen this time is blank but for the contours of the uterus. "We've gotten everything out of there," he says.
As the nurse drops the instruments in the sink with a clatter, the teenager looks around, woozy.
"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."
That probably came from the sign over the exit gate at Auschwitz for the guards heading home at night.
I'd love to take a white-hot metal rod to this fellow and....
Are you actually suggesting that a woman should undergo the ordeal of having her wedding dress - her wedding dress for crying out loud! - altered?
Sigh. The banality of evil....
What a noble heroine for the cause of Reproductive Freedom!
And fer sher you wouldn't want people to question why it's a white dress....
The Times reporter probably forgot to mention that it was just allerergies. There are no tears in abortion clinics are there?
Post of the day.
Sarah paid big bucks for that wedding dress I dont blame her for wanting it to look nice.
The other girl the 32 year old college student? I knida have to wonder what keeps her thee 32 and she hasnt graduated? and too stupid to remember to take her BC pills?
Its a bummer being that stupid.Maybe if someone would introduce her to fellatio she might not have as many abortions.
This was posted yesterday as well. I wonder if that-loud spluttering cough- GovernmentShrinker is around here somewhere.
Too late for that.
But he also feels he's giving life: He calls his patients "born again."
In his world, it's justifiable to kill one person in order to spare somebody else the burden of parenthood. Most women who have abortions do so because having a baby would be an inconvenience. If it's okay to kill somebody out of convenience, why can't I kill the desk clerk at the DMV who made me wait 20 minutes while he talked to his girlfriend on the phone?
Disgusting beyond human words.
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