{"id":4496,"date":"2008-06-06T21:58:57","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T05:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/06\/safe-and-legal\/"},"modified":"2008-06-06T21:58:57","modified_gmt":"2008-06-07T05:18:45","slug":"safe-and-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4496","title":{"rendered":"Safe and Legal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/03\/health\/views\/03essa.html?ex=1370232000&amp;en=a866eb4f19d8a37e&amp;ei=5124&amp;partner=facebook&amp;exprod=facebook\">This<\/a> is an excellent article from the New York Times on why safe and legal abortion is important. And it&#8217;s from from an interesting perspective . . . that of a retired pre-Roe-v-Wade gynecologist who saw first-hand the kind of damage homemade abortions could inflict. As you can imagine, the linked article is not for the faint of heart, so take care.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite bit comes at the end:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> It is important to remember that Roe v. Wade did not mean that abortions could be performed. They have always been done, dating from ancient Greek days.<\/p>\n<p>What Roe said was that ending a pregnancy could be carried out by medical personnel, in a medically accepted setting, thus conferring on women, finally, the full rights of first-class citizens \u2014 and freeing their doctors to treat them as such.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an excellent article from the New York Times on why safe and legal abortion is important. And it&#8217;s from from an interesting perspective . . . that of a retired pre-Roe-v-Wade gynecologist who saw first-hand the kind of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4496\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion-reproductive-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}