Tonya Reaves, a Chicago woman, 24 years of age, died last week after a botched abortion at the local Planned Parenthood. It seems that she hemmorhaged blood following a D&E abortion. The abortionist didn’t bring in help soon enough.
I have prayed for Tonya Reaves’ family, I hope you will too.
You know, griffin, one thing I generally respect about you is that you’re not just some right-wing parrot, but this is the one issue on which your opinions are so extreme that you blind yourself to reality. As I have pointed out time and time again on this site, conservative opposition to abortion is the primary reason why it has to be performed in clinics rather than hospitals in the first place. Moreover, routine surgical procedures get botched every day. According to the Chicago Sun Times, to give just one example, a teenager recently died from sepsis following a routine root canal, an incident which was described as “so rare that it just doesn’t happen.” See http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/3780202-418/death-after-root-canal-just-doesnt-happen.html. Does that mean that oral surgery is inherently dangerous? Does that mean that all oral surgery should be performed in hospitals? Certainly not. And finally, let’s be honest, you don’t actually give a damn about Tonya Reaves, any more than you give a damn about “women’s health.” It is shameless hypocrisy for you to use other peoples’ personal tragedies in order to advance your political agenda. If you want to be opposed to abortion, fine. Just admit that, and quit using these disingenuous smokescreens.
Tim, abolition was a fringe issue until the fringe made it a mainstreet issue. So were civil rights, trust busting, entitlement programs, the gold standards, etc. The course of American history is that an issue begins small and eventually, whether it takes ten years or one hundred, is adopted by the many.
Again, I truly do care about the women touched by abortion. For many women, it causes severe depression, substance abuse, increased risk of cancer, etc. You continually try to make caring for the baby or the mother, mutually exclusive. They aren’t. While most pro-abortionists may not personally hold a view of racism, sexism and dangerous medical procedure, that is the effect of the policy.
Just because a person becomes pro-life after seeing an aborted fetus, in no way prevents that person for caring about the health problems that go with abortions for the mothers who undergoes the surgery.