Comments on: Did Limited Access to Abortions Keep Kermit Gosnell in Business?

By: Emily k

Emily k — Wed, 30 May 2018 19:29:27 +0000

What exactly is your endgame here? Women are not going to stop getting abortions. They’ve been getting them for almost as long as they’ve been getting pregnant. Womb control is not going to “save babies” any more than it will rescue sad puppies.

By: Warren

Warren — Wed, 30 May 2018 19:07:52 +0000

David M. – Good question. As far as their responses being inadequate, I doubt I would have written about it now if PP and NARAL had said something about justice for the infants and called for stringent oversight of clinics. I have little respect for the responses of NARAL especially which I addressed in the post. The cause I think is indicated by the Gosnell tragedy is that the state must oversee abortion clinics in the same manner they oversee medical clinics.

By: David M.

David M. — Wed, 30 May 2018 19:07:52 +0000

I’ll probably regret jumping into such a volatile discussion, but here goes. I want to challenge you, Richard, on your proposed requirement of a waiting period. I am reminded of my own situation in which, by state law, I was required to wait a full year after separating from my wife before I could file for a no fault divorce. In principle, it sounds good for people to try to save their marriages. But in my case, the decision to separate and divorce was years in the making. By the time I separated, there was no longer any conceivable possibility in my mind of recovering the marriage. By analogy, who’s to say the a woman coming for an abortion hasn’t already gone through a self-imposed prolonged “waiting period.” Would it be good in such a case to prolong her psychological agony further? I’m not sure one size fits all regardless of our biases around abortion.

By: David M.

David M. — Wed, 30 May 2018 19:07:52 +0000

Warren, with all due respect, is it possible you are suffering a bit of confirmation bias as you view the responses of ardently pro-choice groups? Is there perhaps a prejudice that their responses will be inadequate? It feels to me as if you, perhaps like them, are using this event to promote a cause. If that’s what you want to do, then so be it. Just don’t pretend your promotion of your cause is a spontaneous reaction to what they are actually saying.

By: Richard Willmer

Richard Willmer — Wed, 30 May 2018 19:07:52 +0000

(Sorry about the poor wording and typos above … it’s late here, and I was trying to do two things at once! But I think the meaning is clear.)