Has anyone had a chance to see Midwife on PBS on Sunday?

[jonthebru]

38. This is all true.

I have written this in the past.
My Mother was born in 1910. When she completed nursing school, probably around 20 years old, she went home for a while and worked with the local doctor before moving away, (ending up in Hawaii.) One Saturday the Doctor came to her families home, picked her up and took her out to a farmhouse where there was a young Woman in distress. The girl had gone to Kansas City to get an abortion earlier and there was a critical infection as a result of the non-sterile conditions, the proverbial back alley abortion.
This situation had a profound affect on my Mother, she related that the girls stomach was swollen and bloated and of course pain and bleeding. My mother stayed with her for several days and assisted in her recovery, she healed and was able to have children after that crisis. She married and everything was well.

My Mother was a Republican, she loved Ronald Reagan. But she always vocally supported a Woman's choice in her reproduction matters.

She also thought prostitution should be legal and controlled and drugs should be decriminalized.

Last night I heard a clown argue with Alan Colmes on his radio show about abortion as something the Pregnant Woman should not be able to make a choice about. He was a frickin' clown in his ignorant recitation of the right wing and evangelical talking points on the matter. At no time did it dawn on him that his choices in life are great but he wanted to elicit control of someone else's body.

A major irony is those against abortion also want to make it more difficult for a Woman and her male partner to get contraceptive prevention.

Frankly there is no argument here. Make abortion against the law and Women will die.