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I have very strong opinions on a woman's (well, anyone's) right to bodily autonomy. I don't think I've shared them here before, and honestly, I don't really feel like doing it now. I am so burned out on arguing a topic that no one is ever going to agree on. Suffice to say that I am vehemently pro-choice. Which, really, I think is pretty easy to infer from the rest of the political content here. Anyway, enough with the rambling intro. Read these:
Repairing the Damage, Before Roe by Waldo L. Fielding, M.D.
- by a retired gynecologist, accounting his work in NYC hospitals pre-roe vs. wade.
The familiar symbol of illegal abortion is the infamous “coat hanger” - which may be the symbol, but is in no way a myth. In my years in New York, several women arrived with a hanger still in place.
Obama's Late Term Abortion Comments Ignore Stark Realities by Lynda Waddington
- yes, a biased site, but the essay itself is still worth reading.
It was 13 years ago that a Democrat-turned-Republican Florida congressman named Charles Canady held a meeting with Keri Folmar, a lawyer on his payroll, and Douglas Johnson, a lobbyist for the National Right to Life Committee, and the trio first coined the non-medical phrase "partial-birth abortion" that is now written into legislation.
At roughly the same time as that fateful meeting, I sat in my obstetrician's office and listened without fully understanding as the doctor repeated the medical term "anencephaly" over and over in reference to the child I carried.
Repairing the Damage, Before Roe by Waldo L. Fielding, M.D.
- by a retired gynecologist, accounting his work in NYC hospitals pre-roe vs. wade.
The familiar symbol of illegal abortion is the infamous “coat hanger” - which may be the symbol, but is in no way a myth. In my years in New York, several women arrived with a hanger still in place.
Obama's Late Term Abortion Comments Ignore Stark Realities by Lynda Waddington
- yes, a biased site, but the essay itself is still worth reading.
It was 13 years ago that a Democrat-turned-Republican Florida congressman named Charles Canady held a meeting with Keri Folmar, a lawyer on his payroll, and Douglas Johnson, a lobbyist for the National Right to Life Committee, and the trio first coined the non-medical phrase "partial-birth abortion" that is now written into legislation.
At roughly the same time as that fateful meeting, I sat in my obstetrician's office and listened without fully understanding as the doctor repeated the medical term "anencephaly" over and over in reference to the child I carried.