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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 11:28 AM
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Maybe we need to reeducate people
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Seems that so many people have swallowed the lie that abortion is evil, unnecessary, etc, etc. The fact that they call dialation and extraction "partial birth abortion" shows how the right to lifers have taken hold of the dialog and bent the discussion to their ends.

What we need is to tell people the truth about these procedures. That D&E is used when a fetus is dying, or dead, or has a condition what will allow it to live for at most a few days in pain and agony and that the safest way to spare the mother's life and to find out what happened is to do this procedure.

Sure, some abortions are used for birth control, but not all, and definately not the procedure described above.

What I'd like to see is a series of films about women with problem pregnancies-how they wrestled with their decision as to what to do. It would be good to show that choice is a serious matter, not something done casually without much thought, which is often what right to lifers imply.

Have any such films been made? Anyone know?
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