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16 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Daily Gut: I Don’t C... · 0 replies · +1 points

No, it's not at all. Women do have difficulty chosing whether to have their dead babies removed immediately or whether they have to carry them until they abort spontaneously, which can be emotionally traumatic and physically dangerous. There's nothing illegal about having a dead fetus removed, but in practice if no doctors know how to perform a late-term abortion then they don;t know how to remove a dead fetus either. It's the same process.
http://www.msmagazine.com/summer2004/womanandherd...

And that was only one example I listed. Do you really want women to be forced to carry fetuses with undeveloped brains to fullterm if they will die within hours? Do you want to make it mandatory for a women to carry to term even if that means she can't undergo chemotherapy? Some women choose the life of their unborn child over their own (http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saint... which is a beautiful sacrifice and her own decision, but do you from your moral high ground feel comfortable making that decision for every woman?

16 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Daily Gut: I Don’t C... · 0 replies · +1 points

Actually, fetal death does not cause all women to immediately deliver. And keeping a dead fetus inside the mother can be dangerous. Even though abortion rules don't prohibit delivering dead fetuses, the effect is the same because doctors are less likely to learn the procedure and some are unwilling to perform it.
http://www.msmagazine.com/summer2004/womanandherd...

Nine year-olds menustrating is rare, but is occurring more and more frequently due to Western levels of nutrition and obesity, both of which bring on menarche quicker. Here's a list of the world's youngest mothers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_youngest_bir... Most of these are as a result of rape, and the real levels of child pregnancy are probably higher due to family confidentiality.

16 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Daily Gut: I Don’t C... · 0 replies · -1 points

And when was the last 'clear activity of terrorism' by a pro-choice group?

Oh, right. Never.

Groups like Bill O'Reilly and Operation Rescue really do incite violence because of their rhetoric "babykillers, murderers, scum, going to hell," etc, and also be posting names and addresses online. It's a bit like Iran calling the US 'The Great Satan,' training religious fanatics, and then turning around and saying they aren't responsible for the ensuing terrorism.

16 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Daily Gut: I Don’t C... · 1 reply · +1 points

That is a spurious example suggesting that abortion causes infertility and will be regretted - in fact, abortion in the early stages (first trimester) is significantly safer than childbirth. It is also safer than childbirth in later stages, but less so.

And Tiller provided late-term abortions, which were mainly for women whose babies had died inside them, or who whose babies would live a life of suffering if they were born, or who needed cancer treatment that would kill the fetus. Dr Tiller was a very compassionate man to continue doing what he was doing in the face of daily threats to his life.

16 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Daily Gut: I Don’t C... · 4 replies · 0 points

There's strict regulations on when women can recieve a late-term abortion and what procedure can be used. The sad thing is that Tiller provided abortions for women in the worst possible situations: babies had no real brain but just a sac of fluid, babies whose hearts were horribly deformed and were SUFFERING in the womb, girls of as young as 9 who had been raped (and whose health would have been drastically affected by carrying to term), women who were carrying a DEAD FETUS inside them that was endangering their own life, women suddenly in need of a kidney transplant or cancer chemotherapy who had the awful choice between their own lives and the lives of their unborn children.

Tiller provided these services to women who needed them more than anyone else, who were not being helped by anyone else out of fear of ASSASSINATION. Even if you are personally pro-life I'm sure one of the above situations strikes you as being a justifiable reason for abortion - after all, why lose two lives when one can be saved, if the woman might carry another child?

Pro-lifers who take this line about late-term abortion simply don't fully understand all the shades of grey out there and the awful decisions sometimes made necessary by medical reality. And people who celebrate Tiller's death might someday find out from a family member or acquaintance just why what he was doing was so selfless.