I want to take a moment to pay tribute to the doctors who perform abortions in this country and their dedicated staff.
They go to their clinics every day, not knowing if a bomb has been planted under the shrubbery or if there is an assassin waiting in the parking lot. They are subjected to verbal abuse when they enter their facility. They have had to deal with midnight phone calls to their homes and anonymous threatening letters.
Most of them could be working in a less intense and safer environment, but they have decided to put their own lives on the line for women in need. Since 1973, when abortion became legal in this country, they have seen millions of women who not only needed abortion services but other reproductive health services as well. They have spent hours upon hours counseling women, making sure that they have thought through their decision. They have advised them on their birth control options, the goal being that they do not want to see them again. Most of the time they are successful, sometimes they are not.
To make these services accessible, they have artificially kept the price of this medical procedure as low as possible to the point where the fee in some clinics is what is was in 1973. Some clinics will offer free services in special circumstances.
These are amazing men and women who have saved thousands and thousands of lives.
I applaud their efforts.
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February 24, 2010 at 4:32 pm
Thank you for you support of abortion rights.
This blog has been a continuous pleasure to read.
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February 24, 2010 at 6:29 pm
Excellent! The question is, how to defuse the fear, anger and hatred the so-called “pro-lifers” direct toward those practitioners? Doctors who perform abortions are being used by the so-called “pro-lifers” the way defeated white Southerners used their local Negroes between 1872 and 1990, killing 5,000 of them.
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February 24, 2010 at 8:53 pm
I’m not sure if you can really defuse the anger and hatred. As we know, there is a segment of our society that hates and that will turn to violence. Every day, like today, we hear of another mass murder or school shooting. In a free society, if someone wants to get on the cover of Time Magazine, they just need to get a few guns, which is easy, and start shooting. I do wonder what would happen if the media did not mention the killer’s name? What if they just said someone killed a bunch of people and not do their personal profile and interview their parents who will say “he was such a good kid.” It’s like the folks who used to run onto the baseball field. When they stopped televising their antics, they stopped doing it cause they weren’t getting any attention….
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March 4, 2010 at 12:57 am
So they have saved thousands and thousands of lives??? But, they have killed over 50 million babies so how are they saving lives? Last time I checked when you take away someones life its the same thing as murder. So you are applauding serial killers. You also say they put their lives at risk and that they help the women…how about instead of killing the babies they just put them up for adoption…and btw im 15 and I know that what they are doing is wrong…so trust me abortion wont be around in the next generation…so Instead of thousands of lives being saved…millions of lives will be saved.
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March 4, 2010 at 7:06 pm
You’re young, Kate. As you get older, you will understand….
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March 5, 2010 at 6:28 am
Kate displays the second level of cognition (cf Belenky et al., “Women’s Way of Knowing”), the level at which the woman judges and acts from a blind acceptance of standards and mores.
Unequipped with sufficient experience to shape her own view (hence Pat’s sympathetic but (to Kate) incomprehensible advice, she acts from information she has been given, not from information she has processed.
This is the level at which many, many so-called “pro-lifers” are stuck. You will not hear a different tune from her until she moves to the next level, and, given the nature of “pro-life” syndrome, that might never happen.
c gregor
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