Aerows (13,429 posts)
Abortion - why it is necessary
I'm going to tell this story again, and I apologize to those that have heard it before. It's rather important to me, though.
I would not be here if abortion were not legal in some hospitals.
This is personal to me. I would literally not be here were it not for a father that moved my mother from a Catholic hospital. They determined that she still had a child in the womb, even while she had miscarried. My father said he could smell the decay from outside of the hospital room. The Catholic hospital would not do an abortion, even though my mother was dying of an infection, because, well, it would be a sin to save a woman's live since they somehow detected that the baby was alive - even though the stench of death was reeking. I am not making this up. This was in the late 60's.
They moved my mother to a public hospital and did a procedure that also included extracting dead tissue and a dead ... clump of nearly necrotized flesh that legislation would have considered a child because it was too dead for them to figure out if it had a heart beat or not. Had they waited another day, my mother could never bear children again, because she would have been dead. Three years later, I was born.
This is a personal issue for me. It is a personal issue for my mother. My rabidly bible-obsessed sister, who cannot carry a child to term due to heart problems and depends upon birth control is completely against abortion. I love her, despite how misguided she is and I hope that if she gets pregnant, someone is there to terminate the pregnancy that would kill her and her child.
http://sync.democraticunderground.com/10022623690Once again the DUmmies have no understanding. Even the most pro life person in the world would not object to a dead baby being removed from the womb, most pro life people even would go as far as to support an abortion if the mother's life was truly at risk, it would be a necessary evil and not something to be celebrated.
The comment about the sister who uses birth control as somehow being a hypocrite for not supporting abortion is even more proof that these chowder heads don't have a clue.
hlthe2b (46,833 posts)
1. These personal stories ought to make the difference, if only the anti-choice crowd would listen...
I've been pro-choice for as long as I can recall, having been told by my Mother how her own best friend died in her late teens--a victim of a then illegal back room abortion. My mother never got over that and that story ALWAYS will stay with me.
I only hope our young women (and men) are listening.
Thanks for sharing your own very personal story.
Maybe if you would listen to the pro life people, you would have some understanding of why we believe what we believe.
Aerows (13,429 posts)
7. I can't believe my mother was laying in a hospital
or what claimed to be one, and they would let her die.
My father is the one who moved her because he couldn't let her die. They've been together for nearly 50 years. So much for abortion breaking up families.
I wouldn't be here if he had listened to the idiots of the Church and "Authority".
Just wait until 0bamacare goes into full effect, people will be lying in hospitals waiting to die, and given a pain pill instead of surgery until Bloomberg finds out they are getting pain pills and he will stop that.
Rowdyboy (20,507 posts)
3. Which is why abortion is and forever must remain an issue between a woman and her doctor..and no one
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else.
Yet every other aspect of our health care needs to be decided by government officials.
ljm2002 (7,117 posts)
20. You should ask your sister...
...to quote the chapter and verse what the Bible has to say about abortion.
Even if they did you still wouldn't believe it anyway.
