Re: OT Why I support choice

altar nospam wrote:
It's more than a choice.

It's life and death.

Before Roe V Wade, my wife was pregnant. We rubbed the belly and
called it a baby. We looked forward to a family.

Then she began to get sick. They said something was wrong with the
baby. Seriously. She got sicker and was in the hospital. They said
that she might die. I told them to take the baby if it meant saving
her life.

They said that they were prohibited by law from doing so until 3
doctors convened and agreed that it was a life and death decision.

That was scheduled for the next day. It became obvious as the night
wore on that my wife wasn't going to make it till the next day. In a
panic, I finally persuaded a doctor to break the law, and take the
baby. Turns out, the baby had been dead for some time. If he had followed the law, my wife would have surely died that night.

So it's personal.

I consider the anti-abortionists potential wife killers.

Simple as that.

Q: Was she in a Catholic hospital? The reason I ask is that before Roe v. Wade I had a neighbor who had difficulty becoming pregnant. When she finally dis I asked her if she was going to use St. Francis Hospital, where she worked as a nurse, she said she would never give birth in a Catholic hospital, even though she herself was Catholic. The reason she gave was that the hospital would let her die in order to save the child. She said that non-Catholic hospitals would take a baby to save the mother.

BTW, it was fairly common practice to leave a dead baby inside its mother until the mother went into labor naturally, but of course, not when the mother's life was at risk.


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Janet Wilder
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Good Friends. Good Life
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