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But the individuals who spend their lives working to protect womens health the doctors who specialize in reproductive issues see right through that claim.
Dr. Serdar Bulun, the chair of Northwestern Universitys department of obstetrics and gynecology, testified before a federal judge last week about an abortion restriction in Wisconsin thats purportedly about keeping women safer. Bulun was chosen by the judge as the impartial expert to comment on the state law, which requires abortion doctors to obtain admitting privileges from local hospitals, as its up for debate in court. And the doctor didnt have many good things to say.
I think it is an unacceptable experiment to see if you decrease access [to abortion clinics] and see if more women die, Bulun testifed, after he was asked if Wisconsins new law could increase maternal mortality. It is not acceptable. It is not ethical. People will resort to illegal abortions. Should we do any experiment for this? I dont think so.
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uppityperson
(115,677 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)uppityperson
(115,677 posts)How to get admitting privileges is mess up often enough to need to send enough to the hospital and they will say fine. It seems rather backwards and yes, comes down to money.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)privilege" bullshit. I hoped more people would stay informed.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)RainDog
(28,784 posts)Yes. The anti-Abortion faction is about hatred, not life.
they disregard reality for a fantasy created by religion about the way the world was before legal abortion.
of course, when the church was in charge, people just smothered babies in their sleep or sent them out to wet nurses who starved them to death or people left babies in the woods to be devoured by animals. (That was even done in Roman times and didn't end with the era of Catholic church/state rule.)
...and the church itself, into the 20th c., seemed to treat children born out-of-wedlock so badly hundreds of them died from preventable illnesses.
If someone wants to practice a religion - fine. Just keep your religious beliefs to yourself. They have no place in a democratic state.
Reason, not revelation, is the basis for American democracy.
mountain grammy
(26,614 posts)or country. The laws only apply to women without these options and the sole purpose is to shame women for having sex. None of these so called pro lifers care anything for the mother or child. It's all about retribution.
Wounded Bear
(58,634 posts)It's never been about the feti. It's always been about the sex, and controlling women's actions.