Abortion Complications

 On Wednesday, July 20, the Tennessean ran an article bemoaning the fact that OBGYN training and practice has become extremely difficult and convoluted due to the overturning of the Roe decision. In essence, the article spelled out the difficulty for doctors in knowing how to “treat” pregnant women (or “birthing persons,” as some say). “What if there is a complication and the doctor does not know how to proceed?”

Just as a helpful piece of advice, they might pull out the medical texts from the 1960's. I do not recall doctors or OBGYN practitioners struggling with how to handle problem pregnancies. With maybe one or two outlier exceptions, the doctor treats the mother (bp) in order to save her life. No problem or controversy. Incidentally, ectopic pregnancies are not considered true medical pregnancies as there is no chance that a live birth will occur. Generally, “abortion” refers to the termination of a viable pregnancy which has a reasonable likelihood of producing a live baby.

What the article failed to mention is that the practice of abortion has become so commonplace that many medical practitioners use it as a standard operating procedure when any difficulty occurs. It can be abbreviated as SOP. And unfortunately, it has become a literal sop to many. And that is the root of the supposed problems. As any insurance agent knows, insurance coverage is normally restricted to “medically necessarily.” Any medical procedure should conform to that standard. “Is this necessary?”

That would even simplify the hullabaloo over juvenile sex treatment. Statistics show that gender dysphoria, especially among young adolescents, clears up by middle to late teens. It is not hard to find reports from individuals who regret early choices, especially the irreversible ones. 

Me thinks the abortion advocates doth protest too much.

Abortion: Red Herrings and Facts

I have tried to read every article, letter to the editor, opinion piece, and editorial since the Dobbs decision was rendered. And I searched in vain to find a justification for why so many people in our country, including the present administration, are so rabidly intent on acquiring and assuring the right to kill babies. There are several “red herrings,” which in debate language identifies an argument, which is non-probative, but emotional or sensational. This tactic, in forensics, is to distract the opponent into wasting time and resourses in refutation of nonessential points, leaving the consequential arguments untouched. This leads to victory in the debate for the opposition.

Red herring number one: President Biden dragged this smelly carcass across the trail with his reference to a ten-year old girl who had to leave her home in Ohio and go to, gasp! Indiana, for an abortion of a baby fathered by her perverted father. Incidentally, my daughter and her family live in Indiana, and I was not aware that it was such a repugnant and repulsive place. But I digress.

Fact number one: Six states were surveyed* which seem to be representative of the nation as a whole, and the statistics showed 0.39% of abortions were performed on babies who were conceived by rape or incest. This is consequential to the victim, but the procedure imposes a second trauma on the unwilling mother, and an end of life for the baby who has done nothing worthy of capital punishment. Hard cases make bad law.

Red herring number two: Many women will die because a potentially lethal pregnancy will not be terminated. A second argument is that the baby will be born with life threatening deformaties.

Fact number two: In those same states, 1.14% were done to save the life or physical health of the mother and 1.28% to preserve her mental health. And all states have exceptions that deal with the well-being of the mother. As for deformed babies, 0.69% of abortions were done for fetal birth defects, or eugenics. Bad logic makes bad law.

Red herring number three: These babies are unwanted and destined to grow up in a terrible and deprived environment. This will spare them.

Fact number three: For this, exact stats are very hard to acquire. But I have heard testimonies of abortion survivors. There is very little more that will convince a person that they were unwanted, than an attempt to end their existence. Every one, without exception expressed gratitude for life and many are actively working to reduce and even eliminate abortion. I have not read nor heard any person testify that their deprived live or unhealthy surroundings have convinced them that abortion would have been a better alternative than being born and living.

The 3.50% of all the hard cases combined merely illustrate that 96.5% of abortions are for less than substantial reasons. They are executed for social or economic reasons, which, I might add, are not incumbent on the baby. Selfish decisions make bad law.

“Even the Guttmacher Institute puts the number of abortions done for the hard cases under 7% after doing several surveys of women obtaining abortions (the Guttmacher Institute was the research arm of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the largest chain of abortion clinics in the United States. It is considered the most reliable provider of accurate statistics on abortion).”*

We live in a civilized nation that is responsible for approximately 61 million, or more, baby murders. And using the most liberal numbers, over 90% of them are for non-medical reasons.

If you have not read the actual Dobbs opinion, but are depending upon the rantings of the rabid abortion adherents, do so. All of their so called reasons for objecting to the decision are refuted in the opinion. Justice and democracy, let alone reason and sanity, demand an end to this atrocious practice.

*Source of statistics: https://www.hli.org/resources/why-women-abort/