Philadelphia abortion doctor accused of murdering patient, newborns

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by Ghostwriter

"To each group we explained what contraception was; that abortion was the wrong way—no matter how early it was performed it was taking life; that contraception was the better way, the safer way—it took a little time, a little trouble, but was well worth while in the long run, because life had not yet begun." - Margaret Sanger

Sanger, Margaret (1938). Margaret Sanger, An Autobiography. New York: W. W. Norton. p. 217.

So...the opinion of a non-medical person in 1938 is supposed to be the final word on whether or not an early abortion is "taking a life." Good one.

[SWTXBelle]

Back to the debate on the proper response to what everyone agrees is a horrific situation - namely, medically deficient clinics. Slate ran a very good series detailing the fact that because pro-choicers fight ANY regulation as being an attack on abortion in general clinics like this are not as uncommon as one might hope.

Here's the link to the last entry (because it is essentially a summation; I highly recommend you read all of the entries to get a clear understanding as to how this could - and does - happen. )

http://www.slate.com/id/2286464/

[Ghostwriter]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

So...the opinion of a non-medical person in 1938 is supposed to be the final word on whether or not an early abortion is "taking a life." Good one.

Isn't Ms. Sanger a heroine to the proponents of PP? She is one of the primary reasons that PP is a viable institute even though some of her reasons for promoting contraception were suspect. She was a believer in eugenics and felt that there were some classes of people who were unfit to procreate. She was an advocate of forced sterilization among other methods.

It is interesting that even she was opposed to abortion as she considered it the taking of a life. I believe that many abortion supporters do not believe it is a life and use this belief to justify an abortion or abortions. The crux of the debate is really whether the child in the womb is a human life form and has rights. One has to deny it is a human life in order to take away its right to life.