The Detroit News reports on the tragic death of Tamiia Russell, a fifteen-year-old Detroit girl who died due to complications from a second-semester abortion. As the article points out, abortion-related deaths are very rare; unsurprisingly, pro-life groups are attempting to turn Tamiia’s death into a referendum on abortion in general and late-term abortions in particular (Tamiia was 24 weeks pregnant when she died).
This pro-life news source gives more details, but I’m not sure how reliable it is. If it is reliable, however, then WomanCare – the clinic which performed Tamiia’s abortion ? deserves to be shut down, and some of its employees should face real penalties. However, since the article doesn’t attribute many of its allegations, read it with a grain of salt. (Link via The S.I.C.L.E. Cell).
When her mother and aunt called WomanCare, they said the abortion could not be stopped once the laminaria is inserted.
However, according to eMedicine Journal, though there are some medical risks, “pregnancies have safely been carried to term after laminaria insertion and removal.” In fact, many crisis pregnancy centers offer laminaria removal for women who have changed their minds after beginning an abortion procedure.
Russell’s mother drove her daughter to the abortion facility the next day to finish the abortion, which was performed by Alberto Hodari. Upon her return home, she experienced severe bleeding — “so much so she soaked an entire mattress,” Redden told LifeNews.com.
WomanCare told her family that such bleeding was “normal” following an abortion, and not to take her to the hospital.
Concerned for Russell, the family called paramedics who rushed her to Sinai-Grace Hospital. Russell died on the way to the Hospital.
Her death is a tragedy. But to argue that her death proves that abortion should be banned is ridiculous. All surgical procedures – however safe – occasionally have complications leading to death. There are sometimes irresponsible doctors in every medical field.
Right now, abortion is an extremely safe procedure (although no procedure, including birth, is absolutely safe). That won’t be the case if abortion is outlawed..
Joe sez:
“Hefty contingent? That’s absurd.”
http://www.sonomacountyfreepress.com/body/raceabrt.html
Aryan Nations and The National Alliance, to highlight just two of the most influential Neo-Nazi groups in the country, have openly expressed solidarity with and provided financial support to the anti-choice movement. Don’t believe me? Visit their web sites and see for yourself (I won’t link to anything so vile).
Don’t play this game Joe.
Not to mention godhatefags.com, who I had the pleasure of encountering in person yesterday. But that’s another blog post.
Regarding Margaret Sanger, I had a brief debate on the subject over at Ludicrosity. Suffice it to say, I don’t think there’s much “there” there.
Many early anti-abortionists were very racist too, by today’s standards; this is because nearly all white people were racist by today’s standards.
Joe wrote: Amp — I’m not sure what you said that I should respond to. Indeed, I thought you were deliberately directing comments at other people. Care to elaborate?
Joe – When I say “posts,” I mean new entries by me, Bean, or PinkDreamPoppies on the front page of this blog. Comments on a posts are “comments,” in Ampspeak, not “posts.”
So what I meant is I’m curious as to what you have to say about my two newest posts – meaning entries on the front page of this blog.
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Everyone: This thread is now far too ugly to bother continuing with, so I’m locking it.
Oh, hell, one last comment: I don’t believe there’s anyone in the current pro-choice movement who is as obviously bigoted and as powerful within the movement as Paul Marx is. Marx isn’t a fringe figure – he has real influence on policy, and his organization has the ear of powerful pro-life Republicans.
Unless you can name someone current in the pro-choice movement who is both as bigoted and as influential as Paul Marx, I don’t think the “your side is more bigoted than mine” game is a good one for pro-lifers to play.
THREAD IS NOW CLOSED.
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