Get the frakking word out!

[lovefromgirl]

The future is NOW.

[edit: Because I think I've upset a very dear friend of mine, a clarification of my views on the contents of the link follows this post.]

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[willworker]

This is hands off your uterus.

Besides, do you really want someone performing an abortion on you who's being forced to do it? I know I don't want someone playing around with my reproductive organs who's going to feel unhappy and forced to do it.

I feel that even more so than the birth control-abortion thing that was running around earlier, the rule as intended is a good thing (doctors being able to decline to do certain procedures, which I believe is already in place-- there are OB/GYNs who refuse to do abortions). The ambiguity suggested where this could be extended to other procedures beyond abortion is a bit worrisome, though, in much the same way that the birth control policy tries to back-door redefine abortion.

Steve

[lovefromgirl]

See, I'm lucky. I live here in Rochester, where I can always find another doctor. Some people... don't. And can't

[cheshire23]

See, I'm lucky. I live here in Rochester, where I can always find another doctor. Some people... don't. And can't.Yes. This

[lovefromgirl]

I could not believe those people, either. How dare they claim to be pro-life when they would have seen Cecily and sons all into the grave? Should she then have died when it became clear her pregnancy could not continue? It wouldn't have saved the babies. She did everything she could.

I don't think it was Dogemperor this time

I had to smile at that, though. Ze's a veritable wellspring of information.

[cheshire23]

Not only did she do everything she could, but...in what parallel universe would someone who had gone through the trouble and expense of IVF "change her mind" and have an abortion over halfway through for any BUT the most serious of reasons? What part of "we cannot keep you both alive and pregnant" was not clear to the commentators? GRR.

You know...I'm 30 weeks pregnant, not very comfortable, really pissed about the crazy surrounding this gestational diabetes thing (both in my own head and in the completely conflicting information I've received), but I'm certainly not about to say, "Oh, I don't want to be pregnant anymore!" (Of course, 30 weeks is decently past the viability cutoffs anyway. Still though, it's not like I'm hoping Tori's a preemie or anything.)

[lovefromgirl]

I don't want Tori to be a preemie, either. *big hugs* I know you're doing your best to keep her in and happy, and that tickles my soul.

For what it's worth, one of Cecily's friends, Julie, ended up delivering her son prematurely for similar reasons. He made it and is just fine. Sometimes the endings are happy ones.