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"Good job killing those women to save hypothetical children," sez Teh Pope. "Modern medicine, whose hands we've shackled for so many centuries will just magically do our bidding and make a life-threatening situation which flies in the face of our blind moral certitude into a happy bowl of cherries for everyone, especially if we speculate some socialism into existence to back it up. And if not, well so what? We've made our moral stand into law which makes it Right (or Reich) and a bunch of people dying and suffering as a result shouldn't bother us."
www.mahablog.com/2007/10/08/killer-law/
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Abortion has long been illegal in Nicaragua but there had been exceptions for “therapeutic” reasons if three doctors agreed there was a risk to the woman’s life. Those exceptions were no longer necessary, said the Nicaraguan Pro-Life Association, because medical advances obviated the need to terminate pregnancies. “The conditions that justified therapeutic abortion now have medical solutions,” says a spokesman. Pope Benedict XVI welcomed the ban but added that women should not suffer or die as a result. “In this regard, it is essential to increase the assistance of the state and of society itself to women who have serious problems during pregnancy.”
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González was told at the hospital that any doctor who terminated her pregnancy would face two to three years in jail and she, for consenting, would face one to two years. … What González did next was - when you understand what life in Nicaragua is like these days - utterly rational. She walked out of the hospital, past the obstetrics and gynaecological ward, past the clinics and pharmacies lining the avenues, packed her bag, kissed her aunts goodbye, and caught a bus back to her village. She summoned two neighbouring women - traditional healers - and requested that they terminate the pregnancy in her shack. Without anaesthetic or proper instruments it was more akin to mutilation than surgery, but González insisted. The haemhorraging was intense, and the agony can only be imagined. It was in vain. Maria died. “We heard there was a lot of blood, a lot of pain,” says Esperanza Zeledon, 52, one of the Managua aunts.
www.mahablog.com/2007/10/08/killer-law/
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Abortion has long been illegal in Nicaragua but there had been exceptions for “therapeutic” reasons if three doctors agreed there was a risk to the woman’s life. Those exceptions were no longer necessary, said the Nicaraguan Pro-Life Association, because medical advances obviated the need to terminate pregnancies. “The conditions that justified therapeutic abortion now have medical solutions,” says a spokesman. Pope Benedict XVI welcomed the ban but added that women should not suffer or die as a result. “In this regard, it is essential to increase the assistance of the state and of society itself to women who have serious problems during pregnancy.”
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González was told at the hospital that any doctor who terminated her pregnancy would face two to three years in jail and she, for consenting, would face one to two years. … What González did next was - when you understand what life in Nicaragua is like these days - utterly rational. She walked out of the hospital, past the obstetrics and gynaecological ward, past the clinics and pharmacies lining the avenues, packed her bag, kissed her aunts goodbye, and caught a bus back to her village. She summoned two neighbouring women - traditional healers - and requested that they terminate the pregnancy in her shack. Without anaesthetic or proper instruments it was more akin to mutilation than surgery, but González insisted. The haemhorraging was intense, and the agony can only be imagined. It was in vain. Maria died. “We heard there was a lot of blood, a lot of pain,” says Esperanza Zeledon, 52, one of the Managua aunts.
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Re: Yay, more dead nicaraguan women = pro-life!
Tue, October 9, 2007 - 9:34 AMLovely.
I am sickened when people who do not have uteruses (or those who's uterses aren't currently being occupied by the mass of cells in question) has the audacity to assume they know better than the woman in question, what is best for her.
No amount of medical procedures; no amount of emotional "care and councling" can make a woman who does not want a child, want her child and feel good about that decision.
I am so sick of pro-lifers i want to be violent towards them. i'm not a violent person, other than in my wishes or dreams, so would never do anything, but i feel as if they need to be slapped, hit, slugged, and simply made to shut the hell up.
Oh, some idiots at my local Planned Parenthood, which is a new building thus there was press about the new building' told me not to kill my baby last month.
course, i was there to PREVENT making a baby. but you know, details. -
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Re: Yay, more dead nicaraguan women = pro-life!
Tue, October 9, 2007 - 3:24 PMThere are prohibitionist males and females alike. Uterus owner or no, it's about common sense and results-based behavior and legislation. You will note that I do not own a uterus, although both of my wives and our daughters are proud owners thereof, but I share your views and am an ally in this struggle.
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