[radiohead]

the Causeway Medical Clinic in Metairie... told her the disease could cause severe birth defects in her unborn child if she went ahead and had the baby.

Untreated diabetics can indeed have problem pregnancies. I guess it would have been too much like right for the clinic to tell the woman that she needed to see an endocrinologist who was experienced in helping diabetic women through pregnancy.

I go to a university diabetes center. There are many happy diabetic women who have given birth with the proper medical care through facilities such as this.

In addition to women who are already diabetic when they become pregnant, many women have gestasional diabetes and give birth to healthy babies.

I'll risk getting flamed here and say that I think a woman should have choice in some limited circumstances. However, being lied to about medical realities is a disgusting tactic. It is obvious that Planned Parenthood is not about true informed choice, but about only one choice, and that is death.

[Red Badger]

If their major drive is for abortion, then why is it called PLANNED PARENTHOOD?....

[Ecthelion]

If I could work my will, I'd allow abortions only if the life of the mother was in jeapordy.

Of course PP Naral, etc., want to butcher babies. It's a business. If you walk into a TV store, is the sales clerk going to tell you, "You know, I don't really think you should buy a TV." Heck no. He's gonna show you all the latest and greatest and tell you why you NEEEEEEED a TV desperately. They're in business; as such, they care about making money. They make more money from performing abortions than from not performing them.

[hopespringseternal]

I'll risk getting flamed here and say that I think a woman should have choice in some limited circumstances.

No one has seriously proposed that not be the case, given the caveate that we are dealing with reality and not some abortionist fantasyland.

Abortion probably should be limited to ectopic pregnancies, where only one life is savable anyway.

For abortionists, "health of the mother" boils down to, "I might get upset if I don't get my way."

[franky]

My daughter inlaw has diabetes and 4 children.