WTF Chicago?

[neadods]

I got a hit on Google news today about a Chicago hospital offering to stop 2nd timester abortions mid-procedure (as in women who start an abortion elsewhere can come in during the day-long stage where the cervix is being chemically opened and the hospital will try to stop it.)

Ooooookay. Look, I know some women are ambivalent, so if they change their mind, fine.

EXCEPT! The article glosses neatly over the couple of women who didn't change their mind. The one who were harassed outside the clinic by the "sidewalk counsellors" that we call protesters or antis to the point that they were DRAGGED UNWILLINGLY to the hospital for a reversal. The article goes on and on about how the "sidewalk protesters" are a major and important part of "outreach" but only two lines to the women who got to the hospital and told the doctors "I don't want to stop this abortion, this wingnut just wouldn't leave me the fuck alone until I came here."

Shocked? I was. Moreso when the article casually mentions in passing that when one of these women tried to get loose the protester called a lawyer on her. (It's on page 2 of the linked article.)

This woman goes to get a legal abortion, gets nabbed and harassed on the way out, and when she attempts to continue with HER CHOICE of a LEGAL PROCEDURE Jane Q Random AntiChoice CALLS A LAWYER ON HER. A violation of privacy and personal rights which the article glosses right the hell over.

I repeat: WTF Chicago?

Comments

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

when a woman arrives in the emergency room with an activist seeking to stop a second-trimester abortion, she should be treated immediately

So if a woman shows up without an activist, she's SOL?

I can't believe the Chicago Tribune printed something with such skewed language. Also, wtf is this belief that abortion providers actively pressure women to have abortions? Why would an abortion provider care if a woman changes her mind and decides to go through with the pregnancy? They're providing a service, and giving women a needed -- and legal -- choice. They're not putting notches on their bedposts for every abortion performed.

[redpanda13.livejournal.com]

Oh, you know those abortion providers-- they're just like the 99.5% of climatologists who accept the evidence of global climate change. They're just in it for the money and to destroy our Amurrican way of life.

If you find any rich climatologists or abortion providers, let me know (as opposed to, say, oil and coal companies).

[neadods.livejournal.com]

What RedPanda said.

I've seen women come almost immediately out of the clinic where I escort. Sometimes they go back inside, sometimes they don't. What NEVER happens is someone from the clinic coming after them to haul them back inside... which is pretty much what the protesters seem to be fantasizing happens.

So if a woman shows up without an activist, she's SOL?

Presumably?