Choices have consequences
Your front-page story on the abortion rally organized by Planned Parenthood whose supporters, in the words of Mr. Maldonado, stand for a woman’s right to choose. Of course, Mr. Maldonado did not finish the sentence or ask the pertinent question – choose what?
Choices often have consequences. We teach our children to make good choices. In the case of partial birth abortion, the choices are to deliver a live baby or stab a baby in the back of the skull as it exits his mother’s womb. The good choice should be obvious. However, Planned Parenthood would call delivering a live baby the bad choice if a woman doesn’t want her baby boy or girl. So, in this case, we protect a woman’s health by stabbing a baby boy or girl in the back of the skull. And everyone – except the baby boy or girl, of course – lives happily ever after. Or do they?
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Truth is that in an abortion a baby dies and a woman is wounded. Of course, sometimes the baby lives and sometimes the mother dies usually due to the negligence or incompetence of the doctor. Anyway, usually the woman lives. One in 10 suffer immediate complications including infections and bleeding. One in 20 suffer major complications such as excessive bleeding or perforation of the uterus. Twenty two percent suffer cervical lacerations. Three to five percent become sterile. Women who have had an abortion are nine times more likely to commit suicide than women who have never had an abortion. One in 10 develop serious psychiatric conditions. This begs the question. If this is what happens to women after their abortions, how is Planned Parenthood protecting their health? (Statistics from the literature of Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation, www.paprolife.org.)
Joseph Yula
West Manchester Township
The point of the rally is that the choice belongs to the woman alone, with the assistance of her physician and the man who created the life, but primarily hers. The embryo or fetus is wholly dependent upon and within the woman, and its rights may only be asserted by her. Who else has a superior claim to do so?
Like Jeef said, it's the woman's choice and no one elses. Also, the feteus cannot feel the procedure, so what's it doing to you?
I find it quite curious that when the baby is wanted it is not referred to as a fetus. When it is inconvenient than it is not a baby but instead a fetus. I have never heard anyone say, I am having a fetus. I can feel my fetus kicking.Look at my ultrasound picture of my fetus.
As for the decision being made with the input of the man who helped create the life.
What life? After all it is only a fetus not a baby. Your words not mine!
As for not feeling the procedure, you are only fooling yourself. The baby is delivered and alive when it is killed that is why it is called partial birth abortion.