Columnist laments abortion restrictions

[Riley259]

Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman wrote an op-ed piece today on abortion restrictions in some states like South Dakota. Certain states are becoming increasingly more restrictive about abortions and she is worried and upset about that. In her world, evil is good and wrong is right. She cites as a “positive role model” a 70 year old doctor who is one of the few doctors to perform abortions in South Dakota. This doctor is a mother of four and grandmother of nine. I have this image of an older, distinguished gray-haired woman who at night dotes on her grandkids and during the day kills unborn children by the dozens - it’s a chilling and creepy image that’s scarier than any horror movie out there!

boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/01/13/is_roe_v_wade_already_collapsing/

 

[dafalax]

I bet the rates of STD infection and unplanned pregnancy are also very low in South Dakota. It’s amazing what taking away culture of death enablement will do for a populace.

 

[Magster]

dafalax:

I bet the rates of STD infection and unplanned pregnancy are also very low in South Dakota. It’s amazing what taking away culture of death enablement will do for a populace.

I’ve wondered about this also - does anyone know if there have been any studies done in states where abortion mills are few and, thus, abortion rates are low? Or have there been any studies done showing less mental illness/ clinical depression because fewer women have undergone abortions which often is the underlying cause of depression?

 

[Friend_for_Life]

I live in Sioux Falls, home to South Dakota’s one and only abortion mill. I don’t agree with Ellen Goodman’s assessment that it is difficult for women in SD to get an abortion. A few years ago, Planned Parenthood purchased a building directly across the street from the largest high school in Sioux Falls (2,000+ students). So, some teenage girls don’t even have to get in their cars when they leave school and go to have an abortion.
On January 4, 2006 Planned Parenthood gave away Plan B pills, absolutely free, to anyone that walked in the door requesting it. The patient wasn’t even required to see a physician. This was a gimmick created by Kate Looby, PP director, to raise awareness before the SD Legislative session began.
Also, the PP crowd is hot on the trail of pushing “comprehensive sex ed.” into the public schools. The Sioux Falls Public Schools, the largest district in the state, has been embroiled in controversy since October, 2005 over their absolutely ridiculous decision to purchase curriculum materials from ETR Associates, once the teaching arm of PP of Santa Cruz. The use of the materials was put on hold until a committee looks at more options, but the issue hasn’t gone away. See www.indecentproposal.blogspot.com .
I don’t know the statistics regarding lower rates of unplanned pregnancy and STD’s, but if they truely are lower, it has not come about without constant battles. Bishop Robert Carlson was a wonderful pro-life leader for us, but he moved to the Saginaw Diocese about a year ago. Luckily, we have many pro-life legislators who are constantly battling the culture of death. Also, the Diocese has organized a Life Chain Link, in which we try to have a daily presence of prayer at the abortion mill. This has been going on for a couple of years. Also, a couple of parishes have Operation Rosary going on, so every single day of the year there are local people and families praying for the closure of the abortion mill.
Goodman’s article cited the difficulty in finding local physicians to provide abortions. I believe that is only because this is such a small community, and the physicians wouldn’t have anonimity. I found out last fall that the doctor that delivered my kids was quoted in the local paper a few years ago as saying that he would perform abortions if there weren’t such a stigma attached. I never went back to him.

 

[Crow]

Riley259:

Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman wrote an op-ed piece today on abortion restrictions in some states like South Dakota. Certain states are becoming increasingly more restrictive about abortions and she is worried and upset about that. In her world, evil is good and wrong is right. She cites as a “positive role model” a 70 year old doctor who is one of the few doctors to perform abortions in South Dakota. This doctor is a mother of four and grandmother of nine. I have this image of an older, distinguished gray-haired woman who at night dotes on her grandkids and during the day kills unborn children by the dozens - it’s a chilling and creepy image that’s scarier than any horror movie out there!

boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/01/13/is_roe_v_wade_already_collapsing/

You want scary?

My sister is a doctor… she delivered my beautiful baby girl.

My wife had a sesection.

My sister, the doctor, who deliverd my baby girl, would have aborted her if we (myself and my wife) had asked her to. The same hands that supposedly reached, lovingly, into my wife’s womb to bring my daugter to take her first few breaths of air, would just as likely have reached into my wife’s womb and killed her without a second thought.

Nice thought isn’t it? I fully intend to tell this story to my daugter when she is of age to understand it, and I hope it will serve to teach her proper respect of life.

Doctors, and abortionists, continually deny the obvious contradictions in their rhetoric… they are either evil, or complete idiots. I don’t like my sister getting close to my daugter anymore… I don’t like it at all… Love my sister, don’t get me wrong; but I don’t like her getting close to my daugter.

 

[bellesjoy]

Write letters to Goodman directly and use the stats in the other thread here about the CBS poll that shows 55% of American are not supportive of abortion, especially as it is used in this country. She and Kennedy and Schumer and others need to know that the “mainstream” that they so often refer to does not include them!

Also write letters to the editors of papers who carry her columns…the tide is slowly changing. As a country we seem to be getting sick of our own bad behavior!

Speak up and pray frevently! Prayer works!

 

[Crow]

bellesjoy:

Write letters to Goodman directly and use the stats in the other thread here about the CBS poll that shows 55% of American are not supportive of abortion, especially as it is used in this country. She and Kennedy and Schumer and others need to know that the “mainstream” that they so often refer to does not include them!

Also write letters to the editors of papers who carry her columns…the tide is slowly changing. As a country we seem to be getting sick of our own bad behavior!

Speak up and pray frevently! Prayer works!

The problem I see with that CBs poll is that 55% of all US citizenz are against abortion, but how many maongst those are personally against it, yet will not object to another person’s ‘choice’ to have an abortion? If that percentage is higher than 5%, we lose the majority.

 

[kaymart]

Crow:

You want scary?

My sister is a doctor… she delivered my beautiful baby girl.

My wife had a sesection.

My sister, the doctor, who deliverd my baby girl, would have aborted her if we (myself and my wife) had asked her to. The same hands that supposedly reached, lovingly, into my wife’s womb to bring my daugter to take her first few breaths of air, would just as likely have reached into my wife’s womb and killed her without a second thought.

Nice thought isn’t it? I fully intend to tell this story to my daugter when she is of age to understand it, and I hope it will serve to teach her proper respect of life.

Doctors, and abortionists, continually deny the obvious contradictions in their rhetoric… they are either evil, or complete idiots. I don’t like my sister getting close to my daugter anymore… I don’t like it at all… Love my sister, don’t get me wrong; but I don’t like her getting close to my daugter.

not my family member, but my Doctor with my 1st child, did this. When I about 8 months my husband wanted to go with me to “hear the heartbeat” but he was only off on Wedensdays back then, I heard the doctor had Wed. hours so I asked if I could make the appointment then, I was told NO, because abortions are done on Wed. , (I guess they did not want these girls see a happy pregnant woman in her 8th month) needless to say (to late, because of insurance, I would of had to pay out of pocket) I changed Doctors right after 6 week check up. For my later babies I made sure I had a Doctor who respected life. It sicken me for the next 6 weeks in the same room I heard my little girl’s heartbeat other babies were killed. (this was 1978 only 5 years after Roe vs. Wade)

 

[Riley259]

kaymart:

not my family member, but my Doctor with my 1st child, did this. When I about 8 months my husband wanted to go with me to “hear the heartbeat” but he was only off on Wedensdays back then, I heard the doctor had Wed. hours so I asked if I could make the appointment then, I was told NO, because abortions are done on Wed. , (I guess they did not want these girls see a happy pregnant woman in her 8th month) needless to say (to late, because of insurance, I would of had to pay out of pocket) I changed Doctors right after 6 week check up. For my later babies I made sure I had a Doctor who respected life. It sicken me for the next 6 weeks in the same room I heard my little girl’s heartbeat other babies were killed. (this was 1978 only 5 years after Roe vs. Wade)

I’m so sorry that you had to go through that. This experience clearly had a negative effect on you. Can you imagine the long-lasting effect of women who actually go through with abortions - these women need to be healed by Christ.