Aurora151989
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How can we even know that this story was true?
Almost all pro-life people will agree that abortion to save the life of the mother is justified. Abortion should only be allowed when a C-section cannot be done in order to save both lives.
I assume you mean c-sections of viable infants? A fetus at 20 weeks has no hope of survival.
I agree. However if the fetus is viable I would opt for a c-section so that the mother and child may be treated. If a woman has a tubular pregnancy or a serious pregnancy complication before the fetus is viable I support an abortion as a medical procedure.
A placental abruption is an immediate medical crisis, in which the mother will quickly bleed to death and the fetus has no chance of surviving. The real topic of the OP, if I understand correctly, is that medical schools are being pressured not to teach doctors how to perform abortions in the first place, so a woman experiencing such an immediate crisis may die simply because no physician can be found who knows how to do the procedure. That is wrong, in so many ways. Physicians must have knowledge of all medical procedures that patients may require. It is unfathomable to me that medical schools would allow themselves to be so coerced.
A placental abruption is an immediate medical crisis, in which the mother will quickly bleed to death and the fetus has no chance of surviving. The real topic of the OP, if I understand correctly, is that medical schools are being pressured not to teach doctors how to perform abortions in the first place, so a woman experiencing such an immediate crisis may die simply because no physician can be found who knows how to do the procedure. That is wrong, in so many ways. Physicians must have knowledge of all medical procedures that patients may require. It is unfathomable to me that medical schools would allow themselves to be so coerced.
I agree. However if the fetus is viable I would opt for a c-section so that the mother and child may be treated. If a woman has a tubular pregnancy or a serious pregnancy complication before the fetus is viable I support an abortion as a medical procedure.
I agree. However if the fetus is viable I would opt for a c-section so that the mother and child may be treated. If a woman has a tubular pregnancy or a serious pregnancy complication before the fetus is viable I support an abortion as a medical procedure.
The way I saw it was that it's actually doctors, or med students not wanting to learn to do abortions, not med schools being pressured to not teach them.
Either way though, I agree with you.
do your best to not debate this particular case please, I spotted this somewhere and followed it to the original source. Thought this might be the best place to put it.
Abortion Saved My Life « Esoterica
this is where I found it, Abortion needs to be taught in our medical schools : Pharyngula
I added the other link in case you might be interested in the blogs or the comments.
for those who just want a summary, basically this woman was having a placental abruption, 20 week old fetus was dying/dead and no doctors on call were trained in doing abortions I believe.
The House just voted on a bill to deny federal funding for any medical teaching universities that include abortion procedures in their curriculum. That's about the most egregious form of "pressure" you can imagine.
The real topic of the OP, if I understand correctly, is that medical schools are being pressured not to teach doctors how to perform abortions in the first place, so a woman experiencing such an immediate crisis may die simply because no physician can be found who knows how to do the procedure.
I reread the article and saw that the doctor on-call didn't do abortions, I took that as wasn't trained in how to do them.
right, but that doesn't apply in this particular case.
thanks for the link, i strongly object to that bill, one abortion procedure, a d and c is the standard of care i believe following a miscarriage (spontaneous abortion) to make sure nothing was left behind.
I'd like to know how one can voice one's objections to a bill that's been passed though, or if there's any use objecting
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