Posted on 12/28/2005 7:48:36 AM PST by Abathar
Sioux Falls, S.D. -- The waiting room at the Planned Parenthood clinic was packed by the time the doctor arrived -- an hour late because of weather delays in Minneapolis. It was clinic day, the one day a week when the only clinic in South Dakota that provides abortions could take in patients. This time it was a Wednesday. The week before it was a Monday. The day changes depending on the schedules of four doctors from Minnesota who fly to Sioux Falls on a rotating basis to perform abortions, something no doctor in South Dakota will do. The last doctor in South Dakota to perform abortions stopped about eight years ago; the consensus in the medical community is that offering the procedure is not worth the stigma of being branded a baby killer. South Dakota, those on both sides of the abortion debate agree, has become one of the hardest states in the country in which to obtain an abortion. One of three states in the country to have only one abortion provider -- North Dakota and Mississippi are the others -- South Dakota, largely because of a strong anti-abortion lobby, is also becoming a leading national laboratory for testing the limits of state laws restricting abortion, both opponents and advocates of abortion rights say.
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This will be the new tact of the abortion lovers, they will use the increased cost as discrimination to keep states from passing tougher laws.
"Looby, whose father is an obstetrician-gynecologist, said she has talked to many doctors in South Dakota who say they have no personal objection to performing abortions but cannot risk their careers and community standing by offering the procedure."
And what does that tell you you stupid twit? If so many people are sickened by the practice that they will have nothing to do with the people who perform it doesn't that tell you something? For the life of me I can't figure out the way these people think.
If they don't like it, then they should either take it up with the legislature, or move to New York. The welfare benefits are better in NY anyway.
Here is my fear. I can see groups like NOW saying that it is discrimination that doctors won't perform abortion and they should be made to perform the procedure. There will be some type of court action making all OBGYN's perform abortion whether they want to or not because it is the women's right to have the abortion.
BTW--I don't (and neither does my dad) consider termination of tubal pregancies to be abortions as there is no way in the world that baby would survive. I'm talking normal pregnancies in this case.
Abortions are all optional.
The left (including Doris Kearns Goodwin) see abortion as a "moral" issue akin to the temperance movement. They absolutely refuse to see it as a civil rights issue akin to slavery and "what" constitutes a person with rights.
It is legalized child abuse. Crossing state lines to circumvent "age of consent" laws is a crime. Going across the border to murder your kid isn't necessarily legal either (certainly it COULD be outlawed).
I don't see abortion as a states' right issue any more than slavery is.
I do think it will take a Constitutional Amendment to entirely end the practice and court challenges.
Exactly.
It's not an abortion in the case of a tubal pregancy, because there's no chance the baby would survive. The death of the baby is an unintended and unavoidable side effect of saving the life of the mother.
The only difficult case I can think of is a pregnant mother with advanced cancer, where radiation or chemotherapy would probably kill the baby but waiting until term would probably kill the mother. Catholic teaching in such cases is that it's a decision for the mother to make. Several mothers in such circumstances have, in fact, given up their chances of dealing with the cancer in order to give birth to their babies.
Two real word cases to support your argument...
There are medical schools that REQUIRE students to perform abortions as part of their training.
There are states prosecuting pharmacists at Walgreens or some drug store chain who refused to sell the abortion "morning after" pill.
So much for "choice". Some doctors are forced ot perform the procedure against their own moral beliefs.
I wonder how abortion-lovin' Little Tommy Daschle is taking this with South Dakota being his home state and all. Boo-effin'-hoo!
I have a problem with tubal pregnancies that are cut short. Will the baby live if the mother dies during delivery? If that is the way God wanted it than why kill the baby? I always believe women use that as an easy way out for an abortion. I hear it so often from women. Oh I had a tuble pregnancy that had to be terminated. My mind goes abortion right away. I could be wrong and would appreciate more info on this. If I am wrong about this, I will own up to it, but I have always been suspect about the whole thing.
The baby won't make it as far as delivery. There is no placenta, no umbilical, etc. The problem with tubals is that the development not only will kill the mother (the fallopian tube is no place for a baby), but it will also kill the baby. It will never see full term.
Thank you. I will be more understanding now when I hear this. I would imagine that it is difficult for the women. I was never rude or anything to anyone just always wondered. Thanks again for setting me straight.
This was dinner-table conversation quite often while I was growing up. :)
Theraputic abortions are quite rare, but they do exist. Unfortunately, their rate vice elective abortions are not being tracked. I would be curious to know the percentages.
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