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Originally Posted by als463
Once again, getting involved in drugs is an irresponsible decision. Buying drugs with your body is a very irresponsible decision and I don't feel bad for people who do that. I don't feel sorry for people who abort a child because they got caught up in drugs, sold their bodies for drug money and then chose to abort because their risky behaviors resulted in an unwanted pregnancy.
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I feel sorry for anyone who was so desperate they chose this doctor rather than seeking a reputable clinic. Babies are not punishment for being an addict. Botched abortions are not punishment either.
Most women who have an abortion at all aren't looking for your sympathy in the first place. It's not the abortion that society feels 'sorry' for here, it's the terrible conditions, the poverty, the desperation, the lack of supports and so on. Stop acting like the abortion is only the act of the irresponsible who are to be pitied if we deign to.
There should be a minimum standard of care. There is in fact a minimum standard of care. Why do you think that women went to this clinic rather than the planned parenthood in the same area? One woman cites the protesters, others their legal status, hiding it from family or trying to scrape up money and so on. If there was easy, universal access to healthcare NO ONE would voluntarily go to this sort of doctor. I'd argue that the women who saw him were overall not "voluntarily" going in the first place.
ETA: Ok, I've reread your comments again, and really I do no understand how you work in social services. I don't. I work with addicts, with convicted felons, I work with people who make really stupid decisions and deserve the consequences from those decisions, yet I still feel compassion. I have a client who will probably lose her son due to her crack addiction. When she gets money, she smokes it all. But when she doesn't have money all of her potential comes out. I'm probably going to have to send her back to prison or for lockdown treatment in lieu of our services, yet I still feel compassion. She is responsible for her actions, yet she still deserves adequate health care. Another client, equally addicted has a history of prostitution for drugs, yet again, it's not like the prostitution means she deserves STDs, rape, or no access to healthcare. She can't afford birth control, nor can she afford to require the 'johns' to use a condom if they decided not to. How can you NOT feel sympathy for that?
I understand sometimes when people with no contact with poor people, addicts, people with SMI, and so on just don't get it *coughKevincough* but when someone is, in theory, in the FIELD of social services and social work? Get out of the field, you're doing it wrong.