Voices of Choice -- Dr. Mildred Hanson on Pre-Roe Abortions

Dr. Mildred Hanson explains how she and other U.S. doctors worked around the law to provide abortions before the procedure was legalized in 1973 through Roe v. Wade. Find out more at http://www.prch.org. (Video excerpted from the 2003 documentary Voices of Choice produced by Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health)

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[Bumblybee256]

That's not WHY women get abortions and in any case why shouldn't they spend teh money on what THEY want? They earned it. No, I'm not a killer, dearest, I haven't killed anything. What question regarding cerebral palsy, I never got any reply concerning it. Top raise???

When children are born they are no longer within the mother, they can be taken care of by another if needs be, so no I would kill them.

[Bumblybee256]

I asked how do WOMEN profit because women choose to get the abortion and spending money on one thing instead of something else is not profit, she would not have made money from getting an abortion.

[EricMarinelli]

I think abortion should be legal for the majority of the gestation period for two reasons:

- The fetus cannot feel pain until relatively late in the pregnancy.

- By having an abortion, another person is prevented from coming into the world, but that is true anytime a woman chooses not to be pregnant.

Since the woman is causing no one any pain and to commit her to bringing the fetus to term would mean women are wrong whenever they choose to not be pregnant, abortion should be generally legal.

[TheAmazonwoman2]

Thank you, Dr. Hanson!!

[willowmarian]

Dr. Hanson, thank you so much for protecting our rights to safe, legal choice over our reproductive health. You are a beautiful, strong woman. Thank you.

[angelshoulders]

For goodness sakes, do some research. Google Kansas abortion facts or statistics!! Tiller was a very busy & wealthy man. He got rich off these mothers killing their babies. So they paid Tiller to murder their baby, that way he could send his children to the best schools.Nothing was too good or good enough for his children. Poor, stupid mothers of dead babies!! Hope you enjoyed paying him as much as he enjoyed the money!!

[Sukov]

@ Bumblybee256

You can't just jump to the self-defense line when the personhood argument starts taking on water.

And not sure the burden of proof is on me to defend the higher personal nature of humans over other creatures - it's pretty self evident. However you are welcome to show me a species that matches us in art, architecture, music, philosophy and literature. I've heard we have similar DNA to monkeys so perhaps start with them.

[Bumblybee256]

@Sukov that last reply from 123cmcg was me using a diff account.

[123cmcg]

@Sukov well no, She's no longer using another's body so the act isn't self defence as it is in abortion. She will develop the brain structures necessary for conscious and may become so, even while in a coma.

I'll take that to mean you just can't explain the difference to me- possibly because there isn't one. You're an animal yourself and a very hypocritical one at that. An embryo is more of a person than dog is? please.

[Sukov]

@Bumblybee256

So if a girl is born in a temporary coma which she will recover from in 5 years it would be ok to kill her the day before she recovers? That's ridiculous.

If your common sense is so shot you can't see the serious differences between humans and other creatures on this planet then maybe I should just leave that one alone. Yes I'm "biased", that does not prove I'm wrong.

[Bumblybee256]

@Sukov No, because they did develop into persons. They have lives they could potentially go back to. A fetus loses nothing,

What do you mean by 'they do not function on the same level'- who says so? Couldn't you be a tad biased?

Also: Humans ARE animals.

[Sukov]

I do not consider the personal nature of animals to be equal to personal nature of humans. They do not function at the same level.

If present capacity is all that matters are we then free to kill humans in comas? Have they ceased to be persons?