Abortion for Medical Reasons

Despite the anti-abortion propaganda, there ARE medical reasons to get an abortion (even late-term abortion).

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• abortion
• anti-abortion
• medical
• fetus
• privacy rights
• anencephaly
• abnormality
• baby death
• doctor
• choice

[Starforge1]

I believe that outlawing abortion would be bad (even though I don't agree with the practice in principle.) 2 points however:

1. I shouldn't have to pay for your abortion (ie - no public funds.)

2. Hospitals, doctors and nurses shouldn't be forced to perform the procedure.

If the issue is personal choice - keep it personal and a choice.

[Cytochr0me]

1. I find this a hilarious point of contention, given that you're definitely paying for people's welfare babies.

2. Random doctors don't perform them; abortion doctors do. Then it's part of the job, and if someone doesn't like it they shouldn't be going into the field, duh. Same with pharmacists.

[canaanav]

Thanks for this video. I have a lot of respect for anyone who can talk about abortion in a mature, non-dogmatic way.

[Cytochr0me]

Thank you. As you can see, I still get a lot of crap about it. Some people are so obsessed with punishing the "harlots" that they forget (or don't know) about all the other people who are potentially getting hurt by their snap judgments they would have made law. Want to reduce abortions? Support birth control and real sex education. I work with cases that are these medical exceptions EVERY DAY. Even if they're the "minority" that is a LOT of people.

[Violaman0910]

Removing an inviable fetus is not the same as an abortion of a perfectly viable fetus for personal reasons. And these inviable fetus abortions constitute less than 0.5 % of all abortions. Combined with rape and incest, the total still does not Esau even 1%. The remaining are all for "personal reasons" like money, childbirth, pride, shame, etc. All of which are incredibly selfish when you consider that this is a preventable consequence of an action.

[TheElectraVogue]

That said I believe a woman should have a right to choose. People don't just get pregnant from stupidity or whoring. There's contraception failure and rape. My aunt got pregnant twice on birthcontrol that I know of. She was on depo. We cannot set one standard and expect everyone to fit into that box. I have a bleeding disorder now no one can figure out and a hormonal disorder. Neither of which was present before I had my son. Let people choose its their life. Their good or bad not yours.

[TheElectraVogue]

There are definitely medical reasons to have abortions. When I found out i was pregnant my doctors told me for health reasons I should probably terminate the pregnancy. I didn't. I ended up loosing my entire blood volume from complications. I had a pulmonary embolism and a dvt. I ended up in the ICU and the hospital staff didn't think I was going to make it. They had to pump fluid out of my lungs. I'm to this day glad I had my son. He's super healthy,smart and a good boy.

[wsmkthtksh]

I have a baby boy names Jordyn due this christmas and they say he has anencephaly. I didn't terminate, i was given that option at 4 months, i just couldn't. I love him.

[Anglynn74]

@tarafulis Anacephaly is where part of the brain is missing. Hydrocephaly & Trisomy is where you have issues with the size of the head & sometimes parts of the head missing.

[tarafulis]

All these babies that are on Youtube who have anencephaly have a head. I've never heard of a developed fetus without at head. A non viable pregnancy would naturally terminate."Barbaric" defined: Savagely cruel; exceedingly brutal, primative. This would not define the mom of this baby nor the other parents on this youtube who had their child with the same dissorder, and loved the child for as long as the child lived.

[Cytochrome1]

@tarafulis If by "imperfect" you mean fetuses that don't have a HEAD?? Then yes, I think forcing women to continue with a completely non-viable pregnancy is totally barbaric. How quickly pro-lifers throw around the term "eugenics"--similar to their obsession with calling people Nazis. Please dump your black-and-white thinking; you just sound crazed.

[Cytochrome1]

@tarafulis

No, I work in the medical field dealing with this issue every day. One button-click would've informed you of that. Guess who's poorly informed...

[tarafulis]

I wonder, did you have a procedure? You say THEY.. what is they? wow are you ever hard on the imperfect. I wonder if you're involved in eugenics?

[tarafulis]

I wonder, did you have a procedure?