Comments on: The abortion fight returns

By: Abortion: whose debate? « Feminist Philosophers

Abortion: whose debate? « Feminist Philosophers — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:41:29 +0000

[...] to start something up with the amendments to the abortion act on the table and up for debate (see here for more details), and writes, addressing feminist [...]

By: Amrit

Amrit — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:05:05 +0000

True – thank you for explaining that.

By: john b

john b — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:47:10 +0000

“A biologist friend revealed to me that doctors performing abortions are often so severely traumatised that it’s (unsurprisingly) not something that is popular, or long-followed by medical professionals.”

That’s more about pro-life propaganda than truth, though. The pro-lifers take the true point that performing late-term abortions, although necessary, is traumatic; but they obscure the fact that the vast majority of abortions take place early on and are either medical or minor surgical procedures that aren’t particularly problematic for those involved.

(well, not problematic unless those involved get subsequently guilt-tripped and accused of terrible crimes by pro-lifers, of course…)

By: Sunny Hundal

Sunny Hundal — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:38:02 +0000

Well blogged, let’s hope this gets through!

By: Amrit

Amrit — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:49:37 +0000

Might I just say that France is supposed to be an ex-Catholic country (unlike Northern Ireland) and a secular, egalitarian republic blah blah blah… but of course the reality doesn’t quite match that, and thus women from France come here to get abortions too! So it’s not just our immediate-immediate neighbours benefitting from our humanitarian abortion laws.

Although this will sound a bit horrible, I agree with getting nurses to perform the procedure – for a strange reason. A biologist friend revealed to me that doctors performing abortions are often so severely traumatised that it’s (unsurprisingly) not something that is popular, or long-followed by medical professionals. Higher numbers of people performing abortions hopefully means less repeated strain on the same few people, as well greater access to abortion for those who need it.