buzzanddidj wrote on Aug 20
th, 2024 at 7:47pm:
Sprintcyclist wrote on Aug 16
th, 2024 at 8:17pm:
Bans on abortion, in the US, have ALWAYS been about control over women, by the 'bible belt'
- and keeping them in their place, out of the workplace
IDEALOGICALLY, I am OPPOSED to abortion - but the alternative is a return to the days of back-alleys, kitchen tables, wire coat hangers and death by sepsis.
Take a few minutes ...
The man who brought abortion out of the dark
Bertram Wainer put everything on the line to take on the system.
Dr Bertram Wainer began general practice in St Kilda, a then comfortable middle-class professional, well regarded in his community and among his colleagues. He drove a Daimler and bought land by the sea and supported and loved his four children.
He had a lot to lose.
In 1968, he risked it all as a matter of conscience when police raided the 12 doctors who were providing safe but probably illegal abortions, and women had nowhere to turn but the backyard.
He found himself caring for women with sepsis, uteruses torn apart by brutal instruments, bleeding to death. And he remembered his time as a small powerless boy; as a matter of conscience he had to take a stand for those women.
He was duty-bound to care for their medical needs and he did, and he raged at the risks women were required to run by an indifferent political process, police corruption and the active hostility of the hard men of the churches.
https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/the-man-who-brought-abortion-out-of-the-dark-2013....
I'm torn on abortion myself, dear. Would I have one?
I think not. Would I vote to let others have one?
I most certainly
would, but that's just me.
Other posters here import their positions from America. Whatever the big fella says goes, they say. So the big fella promises to ban abortion?
No worries, all good, whatever DL says.
So the big fella pays his gals to have abortions?
No worries, all good, such is his choice in a free country.
So the big fella tries to hide his position on abortion, says one thing, does another and promises something else that makes no sense whatsoever?
Whatever he says, they say. I'll have what he's having. Miam miam.
Yes Master.