On the news this afternoon, I heard a story about a woman who took prescription ulcer medicine (given to her by a friend) to intentionally induce a late-term abortion. After a few days, she started cramping and bleeding, so she went to the emergency room where doctors delivered a premature baby. The baby lived for four hours. Since the pregnancy was past 24 weeks, abortion is illegal, and the woman is being held in jail awaiting prosecution.
There has been a huge uproar from abortion rights groups. One spokesperson interviewed said something to the effect of, "Well, in her home country (the Dominican Republic) the practice is common because abortion is illegal. And she couldn't afford a legal abortion earlier in the pregnancy. Imagine her, so scared in that emergency room, and then she's arrested and hauled off to jail for making a decision about her own body. It's so wrong to do that to women."
So because the mother learned the procedure from a friend, and because she couldn't afford it earlier (despite all kinds of funding available from abortion rights groups), and because she was scared, it's okay?
What about the life-ending physical and psychological trauma suffered by the baby?
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That's just awful. But so often the moral relativists claim that if you have strong feelings that justifies everything.
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The friend who gave her the ulcer meds should also have their hiney hauled off to jail.
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I think I'm going to be sick. Bad enough what she did but it seems just as bad if not worse that people can defend what she did. I hope there's a special place in heck for these folks.
