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A reminder
By Phyllis Austin
Apr 3rd 2007
at 8:27 am EDT
Thanks you for reminding me of only one reason women need access to abortions. This is an area of the abortion issue that I haven't thought about in quiet a long time, jeopardizing the lives of young girls. I keep going back and forth in my mind on this issue, so I stay out of the fray most times. I do like less government controls so I lean towards doctor/patient relationship. Since it would take several years to get a government approval to get an abortion I don't see how we can usurp authority of a medical practitioners diognosis but with the deminishing scrupples of some peoples today, there is still that haunting lingering question, is it right? I suppose it goes back to the old adage "walk a mile in my shoes". One's whole belief system can change when one is cast into bleak and dire straights.
That's the number of women who died annually from botched abortions in the 1930s, when birth control and abortion were both illegal.
I'm still here in Cambridge at the Women, Action, Media! conference, and I'm watching a screening of "I Had an Abortion," a documentary that features 10 women, 21 to 85, who've had an abortion. The first woman to tell her story in the film had an underground abortion in 1938. When she contracted an infection in the following days and sought care at a hospital, the nurses shunned her because she refused to reveal who had performed her abortion.
Another woman was hauled in front of a New York City grand jury in the 1950s and asked to testify against the kind doctor who had performed her abortion.
Never forget.
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