Dawn Eden links to the site of a pro-choice med student who posted on what she saw at a Planned Parenthood clinic. The student has since taken her blog down, but Dawn made screen shots to prove she's not making it up. Here's an excerpt from Pudu's post:
The morning was awkward-shadowing the ultrasound technician who didn't want me there and then hovering in the hallway for hours trying to get counselors to invite me into their counseling sessions. Finally I was assigned to a 66 y/o male doctor who has performed 200,000 abortions in the past almost-40 years. He had me sit behind his right shoulder and talked me through what he was doing and nothing seemed so horrible.I went with the nurse after the first procedure to see the tissue that was evacuated and although that was the thing I was most scared to do, it was fine and just looked like blood and white fluff.
I asked the doctor about why he does what he does and he said "I have a great job-no one else can have a patient walk in the door with a huge problem and completely fix that for them in five minutes." I stayed in his operating room for most of the afternoon and was surprised by how okay things felt-he was friendly and respectful of his patients and very matter of fact about the whole thing.
The part that made me really uncomfortable came later on when I moved into the OR next door. The doctor there was a middle-aged woman with incredibly understanding, calm bedside manner. The first two cases I saw her perform were gentle and careful and not upsetting.
The third patient was a girl my little sister's age whose pregnancy was much farther along than the others I saw. Coming into the room, she was shaking and scared and the doctor took ten minutes (twice as long as the actual procedure) to make sure she was ready and sure about her decision. Once the patient calmed down and was anesthetized, the nurse hooked up ultrasound to help with the more difficult case. This time I could clearly make out a head and arms on the screen, and I sat down and had to look away during most of the procedure.
Afterwards, the nurse brought me to the back room again and I saw some things I can't get out of my head.
Go to Dawn's site to read the whole thing. I hope those things stay in the med student's head -- and that she turns from this legalized butchery. What barbarians we are.
(Via Mark).
Add to Del.icio.us
Add to Technorati
Add to Digg
Add to Newsvine
Add to Facebook
Add to StumbleUpon
Subscribe
"Have I got something wrong here?"
You betcha. Quite a bit wrong actually.
To borrow a phrase, it's not your choice to send people to Heaven.
Julianne: "Hm. Bertrand Russell clims that the Spanish murdered native Americans immediately after baptizing them --- perhaps he believed the chole Black Legend? --- and you believed it too?"
Well, for the purpose of the argument it doesn't matter whether it actually happened. I did not intend to support the Leyenda Negra - I could just as well have talked about the British in Tasmania, say.
Well, there was Atahualpa. last of the Incas. After extorting a fabulous ransom, the Spaniards treacherously held a kangaroo trial and condemned him to die at the stake. He didn't want to be burned, because according to his own religious beliefs, he would not enter the afterlife if his body was destroyed in this way. So he agreed to be converted, because he was told that if he did, he could be strangled instead. He received baptism, and immediately following his conversion, his fellow Christians strangled him. Maybe that's what rombald was thinking of . . . . Oh, and then they partially burned his body anyway, so his own people would not be able to preserve it and venerate it. So they lied, as well as cheating and murdering.
I am beginning to tire of anti-abortion voices who believe that abstinence is the answer to unplanned pregnancy. Does anyone realize how many unplanned pregnancies are the result of rape? Pro-choice people have long recognized this ugly reality, and anti-abortion people need to look at the ethics of abortion in cases of rape. I can think of nothing crueler than forcing a rape victim, already traumatized by her ordeal, to bear a rapist's child against her will.
"I can think of nothing crueler than forcing a rape victim, already traumatized by her ordeal, to bear a rapist's child against her will."
Bearing the child of rape is indeed a grievous trial, but killing a baby is in fact "crueler" than the alternative.
Post a Comment
By submitting these comments, I agree to the beliefnet.com terms of service, rules of conduct and privacy policy (the "agreements"). I understand and agree that any content I post is licensed to beliefnet.com and may be used by beliefnet.com in accordance with the agreements.