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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (279893)3/13/2006 2:38:01 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (3) of 1572366
 
"The point is that the "coat hanger" is their way of scaring people into making abortion available to everyone at anytime with no "consequences" except maybe a guilty conscience."

No it is not. Before Roe vs. Wade, the choices were Europe if you were rich, one of the states where it is legal or Mexico if you were middle class, or a coat hanger if you were poor, if the decision was the woman couldn't have a baby at that time. Heck, the coat hanger is still a choice in places where it is legal because public money can't be used to pay for them. If the woman starts to bleed out, then it is off to the emergency room...

When I worked at UTMB, I had a friend who was a social worker. The above scenario about the coat hanger and the emergency room was a common story. She told me about one girl who was 17 and pregnant. She was so happy, that was her fourth pregnancy and her mother had allowed her to keep that one. The previous ones were "eliminated" via home methods, followed by a trip to the emergency room.

Desperate women will have abortions. This has been true for thousands of years. It was true before they were illegal in this country, and it was true after they were legalized. And it certainly is true when restricted. The question is, do you try to deal with the reality, or pretend that it doesn't happen?
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