PA Mom gets prison for getting daughter abortion

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

I was unaware you were a single mom working as an underpaid home health care worker, Dell. Or that you have all kinds of inside info on the condition of her car and the amount of disposable income she has available for gas. Or what her days off are, as most clinics do not operate on the weekends and home health care workers seldom get paid vacation days as they aren't unionized.

This is a classic example of inability to view another's circumstances through any other lens than one's own.

This is the problem with the GOP and abortion- they are happy to restrict it because they are well aware the rich and middle class will always be able to get abortions when desired. Take a three-day trip to another state, or even fly to Europe if they have to. It's, as always, the poor that will suffer for the rich's ideas of morality.

http://mypage.direct.ca/w/writer/anti-tales.html

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Danzig

http://mypage.direct.ca/w/writer/anti-tales.html

I read this piece in the wake of Dr. Tiller's assassination. It is equally parts infuriating and powerful. Thanks for posting the link; it's a very good one to get out there.

ETA: I reread the article again. Here's my favorite anecdote from it:

"In 1973, after Roe v. Wade, abortion became legal but had to be performed in a hospital. That of course was changed later. For the first 'legal abortion day' I had scheduled five procedures. While scrubbing between cases, I was accosted by the Chief of the OB/Gyn service. He asked me, 'How many children are you going to kill today?' My response, out of anger, was a familiar vulgar retort. About three months later, this born-again Christian called me to explain that he was against abortion but his daughter was only a junior in high school and was too young to have a baby and he was also afraid that if she did have a baby she would not want to put it up for adoption. I told him he did not need to explain the situation to me. 'All I need to know', I said, 'is that SHE wants an abortion.' Two years later I performed a second abortion on her during her college break. She thanked me and pleaded, 'Please don't tell my dad, he is still anti-abortion.'" (Physician, Washington State)

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

About three months later, this born-again Christian called me to explain that he was against abortion but his daughter was only a junior in high school and was too young to have a baby and he was also afraid that if she did have a baby she would not want to put it up for adoption. I told him he did not need to explain the situation to me. 'All I need to know', I said, 'is that SHE wants an abortion.' Two years later I performed a second abortion on her during her college break. She thanked me and pleaded, 'Please don't tell my dad, he is still anti-abortion.'" (Physician, Washington State)

Two abortions and she's a hero....

BTW like a burp and or a fart, best thing is to keep it to yourself!