Posted on 09/10/2008 12:54:39 PM PDT by pissant
TORONTO, September 10, 2008 (LIfeSiteNews.com) - U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's loving and highly-publicized acceptance of her Down's syndrome child Trig has some Canadian doctors worried that her example may lead to mothers shunning abortion after diagnosis of Down's syndrome.
Dr. Andre Lalonde, executive vice-president of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC), told the Globe and Mail yesterday, "Palin's decision to keep her baby, knowing he would be born with the condition, may inadvertently influence other women who may lack the necessary emotional and financial support to do the same."
"The worry is that this will have an implication for abortion issues in Canada," he said.
Under the facade of "freedom to choose", Lalonde said that "popular messages" about women like Palin, who chose not to kill their children "could have detrimental effects on women and their families."
"We offer the woman the choice. We try to be as unbiased as possible," Lalonde said. "We're coming down to a moral decision and we all know moral decisions are personal decisions."
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This is what you get with Nationalized Medicine. Everything is viewed as a Cost-Benefit analysis, and a doctor’s ethics don’t really count for much.
ie - The government should decide if non perfect human embryos are viable.
We can only hope.
The real, albeit unspoken, position of the left is that in cases like this there should be no "right to choose." The believe the child must be aborted for the good of society.
Palin, brings out the dark and sick underbelly of the Left.
Like a previous poster, I had to wonder if this was satire.
Sarah Palin, if nothing else has exposed the pro-choice movement to millions of Americans who may not have paid attention in the past. They are not pro-choice, as we have known for years. They are pro-death.
Couple this with Fowler’s statement from earlier, and you have an accurate picture of the pro-choice movement.
Dr. Mengele lives.
Obviously, “choice” is NOT intended to mean freedom to choose life for the baby. Probably they worry about health care money being used for these worthless human beings.
“Palin’s decision to keep her baby, knowing he would be born with the condition, may inadvertently influence other women who may lack the necessary emotional and financial support to do the same.”
Because it is politically incorrect, doctors never address the spiritual and emotional damage done by having an abortion.
I’ve met too many women who are damaged souls after their abortions. You can see the dark cloud over them. When they start to talk to you on a personal level, their voice gets low and they hesitate over their words. And you can see the grief in them. No, they’ll never convince me that having an abortion is the easy way out.
I have a strong opinion, that many of the women commentators on TV who are totally unhinged by Palin have had abortions, and are leading unhappy, unfulfilled lives.
Sarah is happy with what they threw away. It makes them bitter and angry.
Guess this will cut into their income. Down’s individuals are so kind, open and sweet how sad they are inconvenient for liberals! They bring a lot of joy to families.
That is not fair, FrPR.
Would you say you are proud to be an ex-American because people like Michael Moore, and William Ayers exist?
Liberals won’t be against abortion until the day that the socialist/gay gene is isolated.
I’ll bet that within 5 years libs introduce legislation making it illegal to test a fetus for homosexuality.
what if they could know if a kid was going to be knock-kneed? Need glasses? Need heart surgery? Better get rid of these ones, too. Could be too difficult. Thanks docs.
Why is it any business of Canadian doctors what American women do in regard to abortion? They need to butt out and keep their yappers shut.
Memo to Canadian “doctors:” Mind your own country’s business and STFU about ours!
Less vacation time for the docs than if they can convince the moms to kill their babies.
Yeah that is it. Vote for life instead of the “easy” death option of abortion. These guys call themselves doctors?
This is SICK, SICK SICK!!! What is wrong with these people!
Looks to me that they would like to take away a woman’s right to choose.
It is the slippery slope, a woman’s right to choose morphs into a doctor’s “superior” right to choose for the poor, uninformed woman.
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