3.09.2006

I'm confused...

I find it very confusing how pro-choice activists can moan about the notion that if abortion is outlawed women will have to have illegal abortions, and then when S. Dakota bans abortions, the first thing they do is tell women how to do just that. (Note - Please avoid if triggers bother you. This how-to is disgusting.)

Isn't that strange? You would almost think that they want women to have an illegal and unsafe abortion so that they can claim that women are dying because of pro-life legislation.

There is no reason you should be beholden to doctors...For under $2000, any person with the inclination to learn could create a fully functioning abortion setup allowing for both vacuum aspiration and dilation/curettage abortions...I believe this information has been kept from women for too long, and there is no reason they should not know about a procedure being performed on their own body, and no reason women should be kept in the dark about how to perform it -- especially if someone they know is having their health jeopardized by this law.

This just seems so backwards to me. I've heard nothing but complaints and warnings about women dying in the streets from illegal abortion, and now the claim is that there is no reason to go to a doctor...anyone can do it, especially if their health is in jeopardy from a law that says they have to :gasp: carry the pregnancy? An illegal abortion performed by an inexperienced person is safer? I guess we have nothing to worry about then, right?

HT: Rachael's Web Journal

3 comments:

Christina Dunigan said...

Well, I give her credit for at least giving instructions for trying to do a sanitary abortion with sterilized medical instruments rather than passing out rusty coathangers.

Abortion advocates are trying to recruit the next Rosie Jimenez: a woman who takes their advice and dies as a result, and then they use her death to blame the people who told her not to do it.

Christina Dunigan said...

You know, after a couple of days it gets really insulting.

Hey, Molly! Hey, pro-choice protesters! Speak for yourselves! Quit implying that other women want dead babies just because you do. Quit implying that the rest of us can't keep our legs together just because you can't. Quit implying that our love for our children is conditional, just because yours is.

If you want to present yourselves to the world as ignorant, cold-hearted sluts, by all means do so. But stop pretending you speak for me.

Rose said...

Crystal Lake - Yes, it is predictable, but it's still very confusing. I agree with you about what the pro-life community should do next, and I hope, like you, that we can coordinate such an effort instead of thinking that abortion will end because the law was reversed.

Granny - yes, the information provided was very specific. It is also very frustrating that she is making her case to the "women of South Dakota." You're right...not all women think this way...not nearly all women.