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4/30/2007

A View of Abortion

Filed under: Philosophy — Laura Moncur @ 5:00 am

This is the first time I’ve ever read a man’s opinion about abortion and agreed with it 100 percent.

DBB from Michigan describes his experience with his wife’s last pregnancy:

Nothing is stopping the bleeding. There seems to be nothing they can do. They talk about trying some drugs, but then they decide things are going too fast to give time to let them work. So that leaves only surgery as a possibility. Surgery means hosing her out. It means killing the baby. So obviously, we look into other options. Only now, my wife is so out of it, from blood loss, from the painkillers, that the doctor said she is no longer able to legally consent. Now I’m handed a clipboard. On it is consent to basically give my wife an abortion and kill our future child. And it is all on me, my decision, mine alone. Something I never thought I’d ever face, ever have to deal with. Made worse by being a decision of either kill the baby or potentially watch both my wife and the baby die.

I think about all those meddling politicians that would want to interject themselves into everything that just happened to me, interject themselves between me, my wife, and her doctors. And then I had a strong, visceral reaction. I wanted the mutherfuckers to die.

I get that strong reaction every time someone defends the Pro-Life stance. It’s MY body. Keep your hands out of my uterus, please.

Via: A personal experience with and a decision on the abortion… (kottke.org)

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  1. Excellent post! I recently wrote on the topic of abortion. I am so tired of hearing “pro-abortion”…what part of the word CHOICE do the anti-choice people not get?

    Comment by Bluntly Me — 4/30/2007 @ 9:47 am

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