Posted on 08/16/2019 6:51:03 PM PDT by Morgana
For the third time in a week, LT stood at the reception in the abortion clinic in Shreveport, Louisiana, more than 90 minutes away from her home. She was – again – looking for the right paperwork to show her boss why she had taken time off work from her busy job at a chain restaurant in north-eastern Louisiana.
LT had first showed him a $550 receipt from the clinic. No, he told the 22-year-old single mother, he wanted a doctor’s note from the clinic. So – using the last $25 she had in her bank account – she drove back because, without it, her manager refused to put her back on the schedule.
And LT could not afford to miss any shifts.
Many women did not want to be identified because only a handful of people knew of their situation. They also worried about stigma in their small, southern communities.
But LT’s is a common story and not close to one of the worst. In this poor, rural corner of the American south, the process of getting an abortion is logistically difficult, emotionally fraught and often a battle against poverty.
It is also getting harder. A wave of anti-abortion bills have spread across the US, especially parts of the conservative south. The aim is to make abortion more difficult, with more paperwork, bureaucracy and early deadlines and, perhaps, one day outlaw it. That would force already poor women to travel even longer distances to get abortions and spend even more money – or have them take risks for illegal procedures.
Kathaleen Pittman, director of the Hope Medical Group for Women, said more than 80% of the women who come in to her Shreveport clinic self-identify as living below the poverty line.
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>>If you’re concerned about women’s safety you would want to keep it legal as well as ensure that those who perform abortions know what they’re doing.
Planned Parenthood and pro-aborts fight against legislation that requires abortionists to be near hospitals and have pre-established admitting procedures.
They say it makes it difficult for them to operate.
Safe - legal - rare is a lie.
Most of this legislation includes intrusive requirements that have little to do with safety and more to do with making it as difficult as possible for women to obtain abortions.
Like I just said, once women can’t get them legally any more the safety of the abortions they WILL get will be an afterthought.
The focus of the anti abortion movement is on punishment and control. Something like 60% of unintended pregnancies are carried to term and their mothers keep them. And conservatives bitch about the “ welfare sluts” who waste their tax dollars on them.
George Carlin was right. Abortion opponents aren’t so much pro life as they’re pro birth. Once you’re born, you’re on your own.
And adoption is an option. Yet I’ve been screamed at for suggesting this, once to a pregnant 17 year old whose mother was suggesting abortion. As if giving the child away was WORSE than killing it.
George Carlin was right. Abortion opponents aren’t so much pro life as they’re pro birth. Once you’re born, you’re on your own.
The variant I heard was, “The Republicans only care about you if you’re unborn or worth more than a million dollars.”
Thank you for sharing your intelligence on this thread.
There seems to be a shortage of it otherwise.
“Neither [my boyfriend] and I are either financially or mentally ready to bring another child into the world. It’s hard for me being a single mom working two jobs and a full-time student with one child alone. So I couldn’t imagine doing it with two,” LT said.
A bio major with a rare allergy to birth control and still making babies? Not her fault right?
So why aren’t libs piling on PP to offer them for free to poor women? I mean its so important, why is evil PP charging these poor women?
[Deep bow]
Thank you, Catmom.
Abstinence is free to all.
You don’t even need to go down to the office to apply for it, or have internet access..
I like what a comedian said on some TV show.
“What happens in Vegas ... turns five in February.”
“I’m pregnant, Dad, but don’t worry. I don’t think it’s mine.”
= = =
Very funny!
Spoken like a true transgender.
Do you have a source for your assertion that abortions are no more common now than before Roe v Wade?
;)
Too poor to murder the innocent, huh?
There were multiple studies published in the medical literature in the pre Roe days to the effect that somewhere between 200,000 to 1.2 million abortions were performed in the United States each year. And this was when the population of this country was only 2/3 what it is now.
And please don’t discredit these studies and say they were fabricated to support the plaintiffs in Roe v Wade. They were part of an ongoing discussion about the problem of illegal abortion that was published in medical journals in the 1950s and 60s.
Please have the intellectual honesty to search for them on the net. I’m not gonna give you a bibliography but they are there...if you’ll just bother to search for them...as I have.
Condoms, on average, cost 75¢ each and are available at such clinics for free. If there is a latex allergy (not likely in this case), then there are spermicidal gels, films and foams, which are much cheaper than that total of $575 she spent.
She could have probably put that money towards an IUD if she was so desperate to have sex with no protection. Most hospitals and doctors will agree to a payment plan if you have no insurance, or some hospitals will refer you to their philanthropy department if they have one.
The point is that there are many precautions one can take. Until my tubal and subsequent hysterectomy, I always used two forms of protection. It’s not difficult. I wasn’t exactly flush with cash, living on $600 each month; so if I was able to afford it, so could she.
Abortion isn’t a solution if there is no imminent loss of life resulting from the pregnancy.
It’s not poverty that is the hurdle. It’s all those Leftists who think the only choice should be abortion.
I was wondering about that too.
Why are you here? Seriously. It is no great secret that this forum supports the pro-life affirmation that human beings have intrinsic worth- even pre born ones. That worth does not depend on another person. That their innocent lives should not be forfeit to the needs, wants, fears, choices of another. Even their own mother.
Further it is intellectually dishonest to support abortion and not realize all the arguments for it can be used to justify infanticide. And yes some women still kill their children even though it is clearly illegal. So why is that still banned?
To argue we must keep abortions legal because women will still seek abortions even when it is not, is not a valid one. (FYI it would be very unlikely to be illegal in all states even if Roe was overturned). Abortion is a great sin the slain cry out for justice from our Creator. Legalities be damned.
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