More Pro-Choice Links

[neadods]

Two more links that should be spread wide and often:

Woman forced to walk around for a week, bleeding, knowing that her fetus was dead and unable to get medical removal. Why? She wants a D&E because it will be the least traumatic to her body and she wants to try for another child. But there's a problem. She's 19 weeks along. At her stage of development, a D&C comes under the heading of "partial birth abortion" and no doctors will do it.

"Legally, a doctor can still surgically take a dead body out of a pregnant woman. But in reality, the years of angry debate that led to the law’s passage, restrictive state laws and the violence targeting physicians have reduced the number of hospitals and doctors willing to do dilations and evacuactions (D&Es) and dialations and extractions (intact D&Es), which involve removing a larger fetus, sometimes in pieces, from the womb.

At the same time, fewer medical schools are training doctors to do these procedures. After all, why spend time training for a surgery that’s likely to be made illegal?"


These are exactly the sorts of reasons why politicans should not play doctor (by removing "health of the mother" exceptions and insisting "partial birth" is never necessary for medical reasons.) Let's call a spade a spade - by attempting to outlaw this medical procedure in all cases, politicians put the "rights" of a dead fetus over those of his living mother!


And case #2, A woman discovers that her pro-life buddies are only interested in saving certain lives.

"For me, it was all about the babies. Saving them. Sending them into good, Christian families who weren't able to have their own. It seemed so obvious to me, especially with the baby shortage they talked so much about in religion class. Individual couples were waiting years to adopt while so many women aborted their babies.

So imagine my excitement, following the initial shock and shame of an unintended pregnancy, to be able to do the "right thing. [snip hopeful discussion of dealing with a pro-life adoption agency.]

But then came the questions about the "father," my then-boyfriend Dennis. She should have been delighted to know that he, too, came from a "good" background, one nearly identical to mine. As I told her about him and his plans for college in the fall, something was happening on the other end of the line. Something was terribly wrong, the fading connection seemed almost tangible. Her breathing, her tone, everything had changed. With these words, it was all over: "Oh. Well, I'm really very sorry, but we just don't have a demand for bi-racial children. Our program won't be able to help you."

Dennis was black."


And yes - everyone I saw picketing both pro-choice marches I was on was white, and held pictures of mutilated WHITE fetii.

Comments

[peggin.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting those stories. I feel so bad for that poor woman, having to walk around for a week with her dead fetus inside of her, and nobody willing to help her. As for the racist undertones of the so-called "pro-life" movement, it makes me sick but it doesn't surprise me at all. Most of these people don't give a damn about the babies, all they care about is power and control.

[terri-osborne.livejournal.com]

Thank you for bringing these to light, fgwriter.

They're going with that Village Voice article on the "links I think everyone who plans on voting should see" list.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Dig back through my LJ to get that Canadian link to the "anti-abortion people who had abortions" article too. That's particularly powerful.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

This is why my mother no longer votes Republican. A relative could not get an abortion in a three state area, despite her father being a respected surgeon, because the malformation and death occurred in the third trimester. She and her husband had so hoped for their third and last child to be a boy.

There was never another attempt after the dead fetus was expelled.