“Abortion causes death!” And other emotive bullshit
Posted by Rogue on June 20, 2008
When the subject of abortion is approached by the pro-life movement we often hear very emotive arguments. Most of them involve the unborn fetus and how is murder for the fetus in the womb. Some, not many go on to say that it is dangerous to women. Nadine Dorries uses this argument, this is the main argument for lowering the time limit- that it is dangerous to women’s health. Surely that means that medical care in abortions is inadequate? In the Sun newspaper (a newspaper known for exaggeration, although I do read it) there was a story telling about the death of a young student, whose abortion procedure was botched. It is tragic that this has happened but there is a risk in this procedure but then again there is a risk in pregnancy too. This is what was said in the artical clipping.
Manon Jones, 18, suffered huge blood loss and shock, but busy doctors kept her waiting four hours for a transfusion.
If you just read this line, it doesn’t actually say that abortion causes death but many say that abortion is extremly dangerous. When in reality it is actually a very straight forward procedure, if anything is made evident it is the inadequate medical care of the health care professionals. Im not saying this applies to all doctors who perform abortions, but I am saying that it is more useful to train further in this field then limit a woman’s right to choose. When asked Brian Whitehouse, Deputy coroner, commented:
Recording a narrative verdict, he ruled: “There was no failure to provide basic medical care”.
Maybe so, but there was an obivious failure to provide decent medical care. This is shown in how she was kept waiting four hours!! They may not feel they did not fail to provide basic medical care but if a young woman died because she was left waiting four hours for a blood transfusion, short of the blood not being avalible, I don’t know what else they can call it. The time limit does not need to be lowered to save women’s lives, the medical care needs to be improved.
