Posted on 01/24/2006 8:04:57 AM PST by ConservativeGadfly
Therapeutic abortion? gee... now murder is therapeutic... come to think of it, I think I agree. A civil war might be just the right therapy for some of these liberals. Too bad it won't happen.
Great, great thread.
Damn! I love the internet. Those interested will build on this story just like we did with Dan Rather. You can't lie and get away with it anymore.
Could not agree with you more!
She probably sees rootworkers for the pains in her intestinal tract as well.
This woman is too stupid to be allowed to walk down a hallway alone.
Yay! Another lying lefty exposed!
Do I hear the slow unraveling of Kate Michelman?
mark for later
She didn't know where her husband was but apparently found him - perhaps through asking friends. Who cares how she found him?
Question # 6 is the relevant question. The bottom line is this woman was allowed to have an abortion prior to Roe-v-Wade. So why was she testifying in the first place since apparently the only thing she had to offer was her inconvenience with how it was done? That should have been the focus of the article rather than the rest of this list of lame and irrevelant questions.
I'm a little confused by the terminology here. There are technically three medical terms for abortion:
Spontaneous abortion: what we commonly refer to as miscarriage.
Theraputic abortion: Medically necessary procedure, such as for ectopic pregnancy or a fetus that has died in utero.
Elective abortion: When a woman decided she does not want to carry the child to term.
Theraputic abortions are always legal and are done everyday. Trust me, if her life had been in danger she would not have been grilled or needed her husbands consent. She was trying to justify an elective abortion.
Great connection!
Pre-Roe, many hospitals had boards of doctors who would approve/disapprove abortions. TAB was the notation if they ruled an abortion would be "therapeutic", and was permitted. Knowing a doctor on the panel was helpful.
I know a fellow who ran for state office a few years ago; I was talking with him about the abortion question, and he was recalling the days when his father was on one of those hospital panels. Abortions were approved pretty easily, and it was seen as just a nod-and-wink formality. He didn't see what would be the problem with just going back to that. So, I guess it depends on whether you want abortion to be really illegal, or just have it be kept out of sight. In the old days, it was mostly just kept out of sight.
Weird that she would lie?????...........
Her story seems like one fabrication after another. No doubt she would say "fake, but accurate." But I do hope the blogosphere picks up on this and gets some real investigative work done.
If her husband and abandoned them and she "didn't even know where he was," how was it she was able to leave the hospital and, in a seemingly timely way, find the guy and get him to sign . . . what was it again? A permission slip? Required by what?
Can someone produce one of these permission slips for a "therapeutic abortion" done during this time?
Katie also admits the only "therapy" at stake in this abortion was her desire to not have another child. What medical reason did she give this alleged four-doctor panel? Can the hospital confirm that such panels were held?
I found the questions neither lame nor irelevant. I would like Ms. Kate to answer them and more.
That, I don't know. I'm not speaking of Pennsylvania in my post.
She got the abortion after watching a few Arkansas churches burn with Slick Willie...
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