Yeah...this is NOT the kind of ‘abortion’ the rabid pro-death crowd is talking about.
An ectopic pregnancy is extremely rare and since the fertilized egg cannot get to the womb it is destined to die unless there is some way it can be implanted in the womb? Saving the mother is the only choice for the doctor in this instance. It is a strawman argument to suggest otherwise.
This is not an abortion, this is a non-elective surgery to save the mother’s life.
Abortion is elective, an ectopic pregnancy is not. Do not try to conflate the two because you will be giving the abortionists moral cover.
The Left has set up a straw man with a Hollywood caricature of the rabid pro-lifer who would force a mother to die rather than receive life-saving medical care.
Even the stringently prolife teaching of the Catholic Church permits life-saving medical procedures whose secondary effects are the termination of the pregnancy.
There are almost zero cases where its a clear, binary choice - the baby dies OR the mother dies.
In the case of ectopic pregnancy, the child is, sadly, certain to die, as it can not grow to full term in a fallopian tube. If continued, BOTH mother and baby will die
The problem with abortion to save the life of the mother is that the medical field no longer has ethics. It would not be far fetched to have doctors, who believe in abortion, falsfy the need to have an abortion to save the mother’s life. The medical fields lies during the pandemic is all you need to know that the field no longer has ethics.
I have a female friend with biological abnormality in that she has two sets of ovaries and tubes.
She can actually get pregnant while pregnant, which would kill her.
Thus I can see that an abortion could be necessary.
I agree with the article
Of course. Not an issue. Nobody, and certainly not the court, had said otherwise.
(And this is what the (Catholic) church and Judaism and so far as I know most Protestant denominations teach, too)
No, because its never been the true objective.
Yes, there are cases in which abortion is justified, as well as “hard cases” on which it might be justified.
But in most cases, it is totally unjustified!!!! Adoption!!!!
A procedure to deal with an ectopic pregnancy is NOT an abortion.
I am not sure exactly at what stage of evelopment a fetus qualifies as a person with an inalienable right to life. Maybe when brain wave patterns start. But it does not seem to be the moment of conception to me. And it certainly is not anywhere in the late terms of pregnancy.
Skeptical bump
Life of the mother is just common sense, what the left did immediately was switch to the “health of the mother”, which can and did come to mean anything.
This Dobbs Ruling by the SCOTUS does NOT, I repeat NOT ban abortions. period.
It just said that there is no federal constitutional right to an abortion. Never was.
Morons on the court-legislation from the bench.
It is now up to the states to figure it out what they want to do. Democrats/communist do not like it when the people have a say in what is going on. So they lie, cheat , steel until they get their way.
They have lost their right to lead anywhere in this country.
St. Gianna Beretta Molla would beg to differ.
That “save the life of the mother” is a pretty broad and undefined term — and a back door to infanticide…