Interesting article here, by Barbara Kay.
Shouldn’t all women seeking abortions know all this stuff? I once sent a sleuth into three different abortion clinics posing as a woman who was having difficulty making up her mind about an abortion. She asked for a consultation in each clinic. Each time she was urged to simply fill out the forms and book the abortion for the next day. She had to press hard to get a consultation with a doctor. In each case she specifically asked the doctor if there were any side effects or downside to abortion. Each time the doctor emphatically assured her there was no downside or risks to a future pregnancy, even after multiple abortions. They lied, and they could lie, because there are no regulations around informed consent.
I have heard from women who have had abortions that they generally are quite amazed at the expediency with which the whole thing went down. They were talking more about the emotional side of things; no one ever gave them any reason to pause. One of these women I’ll put in the “mild regrets” category. It is possible that were women given someone to talk to, and more information, they might not go ahead with abortion so easily.
Then again, if the culture we live in continues to devalue life in the womb and pregnant women more generally, then no amount of “this abortion could cause premature delivery for your first wanted child” is going to help.
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I’m thinking that complaints with the CMA might be the way to go. Informed consent is a standard of medical ethics, and, is a complaint or two were made, we might see some changes. It is a doctor’s job to ask “Are you sure? Are you really, really sure?, and to actually listen to the patient’s response.”
Abortion clinics have an obvious conflict of interest. Quite simply, it is bad for business to give the “customer” any reason to have second thoughts.
Agreed, Dan, on the conflict of interest.
Plus, my sense is that what women are looking for in the moment of an unplanned pregnancy is not so much the medical info, though basic principles of freedom of information would imply they should get that too, but rather, emotional information, or to put it in different terms, they are looking for a safe space to process what’s happened, away from angry parents, worried or angry partners/husbands/boyfriends, and well-meaning friends who may not have a sweet clue how to cope with the magnitude of the problem and how it weighs on a woman’s mind in a multitude of different ways.
Have you heard Abby Johnson speak on the subject? She was a director for Planned Parenthood here in the U.S. and was one of their employees of the year before her eyes were finally opened and she is now a Pro-Life speaker. I haven’t gotten to read her book yet but I have seen several of her speeches and she tells a lot from the inside view of the abortion industry. They don’t want to give women any chance to back out or change their minds they feed them a bunch of lies and rush them through. It’s all a business for them they don’t care about the lives of the babies or the mother’s or what will happen to them later from what I have heard. And really what can you expect from “doctors” and I use that term extremely loosely here who’s main job is to kill one of their patients.
http://voiceforhope.blogspot.com/