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.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
asked and answered. You read what i said about making it illegal. i include all that that implies.
You ignore the likelihood that the numbers would be greatly reduced because many would not violate the law. You only imagine the ones who would.
I’m gonna let you go.
I imagine this discussion is making you very upset and I do not wish for you to become ill over it. I would feel terrible about that. It’s not worth it.
It is very convenient that idiots think “dumb sluts” is gender specific...
I’m sorry I introduced arguments you may never have considered.
Not upset at all.
Just wondering why you made a general accusation and gave no examples after two requests.
Here’s a tip, figure out what you believe and be consistent about it just as you would have me do.
You either believe in the right to life for humans or you do not.
After a person advocates for the destruction of the most innocent, what more csn they say?
No, you didn’t do that. You did give me another reminder of why I believe women should not vote.
I am not an advocate for “destruction of the innocent.” All I said was making abortion illegal won’t stop it.
There’s simply no having a rational argument with a lot of right to lifers. If you try to make a reasonable statement they get hyperbolic and morph it into something else altogether, usually only what they want to believe.
Good night.
Why does that not surprise me?
Here I am trying to explain how much fear and loathing of women is going on in this thread and folks ask me what I’m talking about.
Sluts...women shouldn’t vote...etc.
It doesn’t get much clearer than that.
Ha Ha HA !
Yeah, feeling good is so important to you.
I know these women. If you did too this would not be so simple for you.
Ha Ha HA !
Yeah, feeling good is so important to you.
I know these women. If you did too this would not be so simple for you.
At what point is it okay to murder another human being?
The code I live by says “Thou shalt not murder.”
I understand that outlawing abortions will make them more dangerous for all involved.
But we mustn’t give tacit approval to murdering the inconvenient.
All I said was making it illegal won’t stop it.
Before 1973, most women who had abortions were already married and obtained abortions from their own doctors...for a price. Single and low income women took their chances.
It was a situation rife with danger and hypocrisy. Do you REALLY want to go back to that? Why? Are you okay with maimed and dead women because you’re opposed to it? That’s where you and I part company. I think it’s wrong but I simply don’t want to see women killed and injured because I disapprove of their behavior.
And there is no evidence that making it legal made it more common. We know how many abortions are performed now only because it’s still legal.
I would love for Trump to promote a huge adoption initiative to expose the hypocracy of the “pro-choice” left.
That is true for all forms of murder.
Outlawing murder does not completely stop it, but it does make us civilized and moral instead of depraved animals.
I suppose that makes dead and maimed women just so much collateral damage. And you’re okay with that?
There are safe, humane alternatives for the mother and child. Death is not the only choice.
blah blah blah, so you are decidedly pro-abort on a conservative board. Roleplay Conservative (ROLCON) much?
http://freerepublic.com/tag/botchedabortions/index?tab=articles
http://freerepublic.com/tag/botchedabortion/index?tab=articles
http://freerepublic.com/tag/safelegalrareisalie/index?tab=articles
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