Warning Graphic Why Dr. Kermit Gosnell's trial should be

[jln]

Apparently there's a short 20 min documentary about this. I haven't watched it but a guy I went to HS with (who's a very pro-life pastor) just posted it.

[madisen]

Anderson Cooper 360 is doing a pretty good and thorough job covering this story now on CNN.

[Jermys]

This is very much like illegal abortions pre-Roe v. Wade. My MIL was raised a staunch Catholic, but was an ER nurse in the late 60s/early 70s. She said once that seeing women come in to the ER and just bleed out on the table is why she is pro choice. This article was an incredible read for me: www.motherjones.com/politics/2004/09/way-it-was

[bluestreet]

Apr 13, 2013 1:31:26 GMT -5 Jermys said:

This is very much like illegal abortions pre-Roe v. Wade. My MIL was raised a staunch Catholic, but was an ER nurse in the late 60s/early 70s. She said once that seeing women come in to the ER and just bleed out on the table is why she is pro choice. This article was an incredible read for me: www.motherjones.com/politics/2004/09/way-it-was

Thank you. What a powerful and moving piece.

[pixy0stix]

Apr 13, 2013 1:31:26 GMT -5 Jermys said:

This is very much like illegal abortions pre-Roe v. Wade. My MIL was raised a staunch Catholic, but was an ER nurse in the late 60s/early 70s. She said once that seeing women come in to the ER and just bleed out on the table is why she is pro choice. This article was an incredible read for me: www.motherjones.com/politics/2004/09/way-it-was

I got to the end of the first page, saw the picture and read the description and just lost it. Hard core sobbing, ZB asking what's wrong, which made me cry more. That poor poor woman.

[lyssbobiss, Command, B613]

Today is the first time that I'm reading this story because I've avoided it. And now I know why. I'm going to have fucking nightmares.

Through every story that has pissed me off lately - Jodi Arias, The Stubenville Rape Trial, the latest rape cases in California and Canada - I have never really lost faith in humanity. This story is so fucking gruesome that it literally makes me have doubts. I don't have words.

[ringstrue]

Ok I'm finally getting to this too.

I agree its murder/infanticide and NOT an "illegal abortion". The only time the word "abortion" comes in is when you are talking about what the women were looking for, but that's nothing like what the doctor did.

My understanding is that later term abortions (which are very very few) and largely due to sever medical issues where the baby's situation isn't compatible with life anyway. Then it can become a mother's health issues because it's dangerous to have a dying/dead fetus inside you. So really that situation and what this doctor did were light-years apart.

[ringstrue]

Apr 12, 2013 14:12:46 GMT -5 asdfjkl said:

Apr 12, 2013 13:42:17 GMT -5 caden said:

And with that I"m reminded why I don't post in abortion threads anymore.

Tell me I'm wrong and cite your source.  Otherwise, you're just burying your head in the sand.

I don't think she was disagreeing with you, just that this is a really sensitive subject.