Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [Politics] Amendment 2 ads and lies

["Christian M. Cepel" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike Miller wrote:
>  of it -- having a D&C, which is like having an abortion.  It is 
> unpleasant and I'm sure that women don't enter the decision to abort 
> without very careful consideration.
I'd very much like to know what led you to this conclusion.  Would it be 
all the turmoil of emotions and pressures they are under at the time 
that aids them in making a decision that they might have before or since 
insisted they'd make completely differently if presented with the same 
scenario.  Would it be the panic and desperation of being a single 
parent, or being decried by highschool friends or parents and family and 
church group.  Would it be the fear of having a very involved adult 
physical and emotional and financial experience by a body and person 
that really wasn't mature and old enough to make the proper decision on 
whether or not to engage in the adult activities that resulted in the 
decision needing to be made.  Somehow I'm thinking a lot of the 'careful 
consideration' on the decision of whether or not to abort can be pretty 
summed up in the statement, "Oh my God, what the hell do I do?  My life 
is over.  Help me.  I'm not ready.  My life is ruined.  Just make it go 
away."

I really wonder in the discussion of the procedure if the staff at 
Unplanned Parenthood don't downplay the unpleasant aspect of the 
procedure and D&C.  Somehow even if they didn't, I'm very doubtful that 
fear of the procedure plays much of ANYTHING in the decision process... 
unless perhaps they've experienced it previously.   I will remind you 
that previous to RvW desperation led uncounted women through history to 
allow people to root around with coat hangers, acid, sticks, etc.... 
often at the cost of their own lives.  I can just see the privacy forms 
and right to refuse notifications and consent to treat forms the girls 
used to have to sign when going to the local witch doctor, apothecary, 
or back alley abortionist after having read the disclosure of risk 
factors involved in the procedure.

Is it any wonder that it's becoming a growing awareness and treatment 
field of caring for women who have made the decision and then later 
spend the rest of their lives racked with guilt, regret and even despair.

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