truedelphi (24,041 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
My sad tale, and why abortion issue is not about deciding
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anything. Nor is it about morality.
The abortion issue is instead about a woman's right to survive should she become pregnant. Once the anti-abortion crowd gets its way, no woman is safe at all, if she is of child-bearing age.
She is not even safe from her body's own biological processes.
Take that from me. Back in the early 1970's in Illinois, as a very naive, somewhat pro-Life 20 year old, I became pregnant. I found out I was pregnant on Feb 15th of that year. Before my husband and I could "decide" anything, my body rejected the pregnancy. I started bleeding while I was walking home from work. At that point, I had known I was pregnant for all of six hours.
The local hospital refused to admit me as a patient, when I arrived by ambulance at 2Am. Even though I was hemorrhaging.
The ER doctors examining me seemed more interested in interrogating my husband about what I "had done" prior to the start of my bleeding, than in handling my situation.
So they sent me home. Later on, I found out that the hospital might have lost its license if they admitted a pregnant woman who has self-aborted.
I would have died, if not for the strange fact that my mother called our house at 6Am that day. (She calls me evenings or afternoons, not Am's.) When she found out from Jim what was happening, she showed up at my house, and got me to the hospital where my long time pediatrician practiced. Within 45 minutes of my arrival, I was undergoing a D & C.
If that had not happened, I would not currently be occupying my office chair, but pushing up daisies in a cemetery somewhere in Illinois.
First, medically necessary abortions have never been illegal anywhere in the United States. Second, if you were hemmorhaging, they would have had you rushed to the operating table. Third, you do not receive a D & C if you were so short in to pregnancy that you had only learned six hours previously, the fetus would have been too small. All of this shows that you lie.
Now on to the idiots in your cheering section.
The Doctor. (15,989 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
2. These low-intellect creatures have been taught
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that it is better to despise intellect than to grow one.
I would like to believe that anecdotes like this would get them to realize that the issue is far more complicated than their black and white world-view will allow, but alas, that would be far too much work. The only ones who learn are the ones close to a story like yours.
In the meanwhile, might I recommend that you do not make the terms of their victory 'your dead body', because they are uncivilized and very likely to take you up on that. I think that I, and I hope you as well, would rather that the 'dead bodies' be theirs.
Given that they would see women die even where the fetus was not viable, I have no moral compunction here.
No, the 'dead bodies' you want are the chopped up remains of babies that had no chance at life thanks to your idea that a baby is only inconvenience.
get the red out (5,065 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
3. Death
I actually believe that a lot of them think that death in such a situation would be an appropriate outcome for a woman, "God's will".
You have no idea the position of people on the right have. You could come over and ask, but cowardice prevents you.
HopeHoops (27,470 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
4. The wingnuts wouldn't understand that even with as clear an explanation as you provided.
Isn't there a book that speaks of people that call a lie a truth and a truth a lie?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002339580
