After the Havoc: I Guess

Aug 01

After the Havoc: I Guess →

theoppressedlittlefetus:

mybrainisworkingovertime:

you could say that “pro-life” supporters are “anti-choice”.

But to be fair, “pro-choice” supporters are “anti-life”.

If we’re all so anti-life why aren’t we all just killing ourselves and everyone else…

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I’m not talking about lifesaving abortions. I’m referring to the fact that making abortion illegal does not decrease the number of abortions, but does (greatly) increase the number of women who die or who suffer severe injuries, often injuries that render them sterile so that when they DO want to have children they cannot. Here’s one example, from one doctor’s experiences before Roe V Wade. Don’t read it if you’re squeamish. I’m not trying to gross you out, I just think it’s important that it be read.

The familiar symbol of illegal abortion is the infamous “coat hanger” — which may be the symbol, but is in no way a myth. In my years in New York, several women arrived with a hanger still in place. Whoever put it in — perhaps the patient herself — found it trapped in the cervix and could not remove it.

We did not have ultrasound, CT scans or any of the now accepted radiology techniques. The woman was placed under anesthesia, and as we removed the metal piece we held our breath, because we could not tell whether the hanger had gone through the uterus into the abdominal cavity. Fortunately, in the cases I saw, it had not.

However, not simply coat hangers were used.

Almost any implement you can imagine had been and was used to start an abortion — darning needles, crochet hooks, cut-glass salt shakers, soda bottles, sometimes intact, sometimes with the top broken off.

Another method that I did not encounter, but heard about from colleagues in other hospitals, was a soap solution forced through the cervical canal with a syringe. This could cause almost immediate death if a bubble in the solution entered a blood vessel and was transported to the heart.

The worst case I saw, and one I hope no one else will ever have to face, was that of a nurse who was admitted with what looked like a partly delivered umbilical cord. Yet as soon as we examined her, we realized that what we thought was the cord was in fact part of her intestine, which had been hooked and torn by whatever implement had been used in the abortion. It took six hours of surgery to remove the infected uterus and ovaries and repair the part of the bowel that was still functional.

I understand that many “pro-life” people honestly believe that they’re preserving life… but by restricting women’s rights to abortion, they’re destroying it. They’re killing people— the kind that can think and feel.

I am pro-choice because I support a woman’s right to life.

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