Not one of my patients takes this decision lightly. Many travel more than 100 miles to see me and my colleagues.
So that means they should be able to get my tax dollars to kill their babies?
I see women who agonize over feeding and clothing the children they already have, who are striving to break the cycle of poverty by getting an education, who are fleeing from abuse, and who have health problems that make pregnancy life-threatening.
How many truly fall into that last category? As for the rest... if only we had...
...government welfare programs
...private charities
..."free" education through high school and "cheap" community colleges
...programs for pregnant mothers
...programs for mothers with children
...programs and places for abused women
...a dozen different forms of contraception
...the ability to abstain from intercourse
...the ability to choose when to have intercourse
...the ability to choose sexual partners
...various forms of adoption
Robert H. Dahl of Los Angeles got it right:
In all fairness, your editorial regarding the "unprecedented attack on women's reproductive rights" should have mentioned that the so-called right results in the killing of a baby.
Michael L. Friedman, MD
Torrance
Michael L. Friedman, MD
Torrance
Michael L. Friedman, MD
Torrance
Michael L. Friedman, MD of Torrance wrote:
As an OB-GYN physician, I can still remember the mangled women who were victims of untrained abortionists.
Yeah, people sometimes get injured murder other people, too. If only they could trained by hitmen.
The real answer is to prevent unwanted pregnancies through education and easy access to birth control.
We already have that! And remember how abortion-on-demand was going to eradicate child abuse and poverty? Yeah, that worked out, right?