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Nov. 14th, 2012 08:32 amWoman dies after being refused an abortion (BBC report)
tiny AP report on the event (most US papers don't even seem to be carrying it)
This should be getting more press in the US. I know that we have a wonderful juicy sex scandal involving top administration officials who are also military officers and there are probably space aliens involved somehow. But that's the past.
We need to be reminded that this is the future; this is the future envisioned for American by everyone who wants to overturn Roe. This is the future for America that is created every time a women's clinic is bullied into closing its doors, or a doctor who performs abortion is harassed into ceasing (or is murdered); this is the future that grows here, a little bit more, every time the only pharmacy in a county the size of some small states decides it's going to make a stand on "moral" grounds and refuse to sell morning-after pills, or birth control pills, or condoms.
This is the future we've been keeping away with a whip and a chair since 1973, despite the best efforts of some to bring it creeping back. This is a woman who wanted to have a child but whose body betrayed her and whose doctors betrayed their Hippocratic Oath to treat the patient in front of you without fear or favour. She died, in horrible agony.
We can't let this be the future for America.
tiny AP report on the event (most US papers don't even seem to be carrying it)
This should be getting more press in the US. I know that we have a wonderful juicy sex scandal involving top administration officials who are also military officers and there are probably space aliens involved somehow. But that's the past.
We need to be reminded that this is the future; this is the future envisioned for American by everyone who wants to overturn Roe. This is the future for America that is created every time a women's clinic is bullied into closing its doors, or a doctor who performs abortion is harassed into ceasing (or is murdered); this is the future that grows here, a little bit more, every time the only pharmacy in a county the size of some small states decides it's going to make a stand on "moral" grounds and refuse to sell morning-after pills, or birth control pills, or condoms.
This is the future we've been keeping away with a whip and a chair since 1973, despite the best efforts of some to bring it creeping back. This is a woman who wanted to have a child but whose body betrayed her and whose doctors betrayed their Hippocratic Oath to treat the patient in front of you without fear or favour. She died, in horrible agony.
We can't let this be the future for America.
