The really scary thing is that there are instructions on how to set up similar organisations available online, including the nitty gritty of performing the procedures.
Though what frightens me is not that people are willing to make that information available, but that politicians are willing to drive people to the extremity of needing it.
What angers me is that, thirty-odd years after both Roe (U.S.) and the Abortion Act (U.K.), women still have to submit to abortion in order to be equal to men; 30,000 women are fired every year (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4406906.stm) in this country for becoming pregnant (and one may presume that their pregnancies are wanted because one wouldn't tell one's boss about a pregnancy that one intended to terminate). (I'll stop at one statistic to illustrate my point, otherwise this'll get too long.)
Abortion being lawful hasn't changed that one bit, it has merely made sure that women don't die as a consequence of the Hobson's "choice" that they have to make if the strip turns blue at "a bad time". Believe me, the "have to" part of abortion is still there.
Abortion's something I've changed my mind on. I used to be anti in some cases, like the screening of foetuses for disabilities and subsequent abortions (some people with disabilities are strongly against this).
But it's not my place or anyone else's place to tell any woman she has to go through with a pregnancy she doesn't want and subsequently give birth to a child that isn't wanted or couldn't be coped with. Who am I or who is anyone to make that massive decision for any woman?
I remember going along with a colleague for her to have an abortion. I'd only just started in the job and only just met her and I agreed to go and support her (despite not being sure how I felt about her abortion at the time) because nobody in her family would go with her, none of her friends would go with her and nobody else at our place at work, although they'd known her for years, would go with her.
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Date: 2006-03-02 02:37 pm (UTC)Though what frightens me is not that people are willing to make that information available, but that politicians are willing to drive people to the extremity of needing it.
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Date: 2006-03-03 12:26 am (UTC)Abortion being lawful hasn't changed that one bit, it has merely made sure that women don't die as a consequence of the Hobson's "choice" that they have to make if the strip turns blue at "a bad time". Believe me, the "have to" part of abortion is still there.
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Date: 2006-03-05 10:48 am (UTC)But it's not my place or anyone else's place to tell any woman she has to go through with a pregnancy she doesn't want and subsequently give birth to a child that isn't wanted or couldn't be coped with. Who am I or who is anyone to make that massive decision for any woman?
I remember going along with a colleague for her to have an abortion. I'd only just started in the job and only just met her and I agreed to go and support her (despite not being sure how I felt about her abortion at the time) because nobody in her family would go with her, none of her friends would go with her and nobody else at our place at work, although they'd known her for years, would go with her.
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Date: 2006-03-05 12:10 pm (UTC)