Avoiding Abortion
Charlotte Ostermann
Anna Quindlen would like you to feel
bad that so few doctors will perform abortions nowadays. So bad, in fact, that you’ll agree we should
force them into abortion training, and maybe even into abortion performance. Quindlen’s only concept of a possible reason for doctors’
unwillingness is their fear of those crazies who kill abortionists. If readers could stretch their imaginations a
little farther than Ms. Quindlen was able to, perhaps
they would consider a few other possibilities:
Doctors do not perform abortions because 1) They are embarrassed
by what is still looked upon as a less-than-life-enhancing procedure among
peers and patients 2) They fear hastening society’s disregard for life at all
ages 3) They have handicapped patients, children or friends who demonstrate
great joy in the gift of life despite what some would consider a quality of
life worth killing to prevent 4) They are busy viewing the unborn as patients –
protecting them from prenatal drugs and disease and helping them struggle for
life in neonatal intensive care 5) They believe abortion is a civil rights
issue and do not want to be in the same moral camp as slaveholders and Jew
killers 6) They are black and concerned about the black genocide that is the
bottom line effect of the abortion industry 7) They are pro-life homosexuals
who fear selective abortions will soon weed out soul-mates if a clear genetic
marker for homosexuality is identified 8) They are pro-life feminists who see
clearly the anti-female bias in worldwide abortion statistics 9) They care
about the future reproductive health of the women they serve 10) They are
concerned about the mental health of women, many of whom experience suicidal
depression in the aftermath of an abortion 11)They believe abortion is the
murder of a human being 12) They believe abortion would violate their highest
loyalty to a loving God.
Perhaps some of these non-aborting doctors will soon be horrified
by the new wave of back alley abortion after-effects Quindlen
predicts. Does she, however, consider
the horrifying, soul-numbing effect of being a party to the vacuum vivisection
or saline poisoning and burning of innocent infants?
I beg readers to stand against any attempt to force doctors to
train for or perform abortions in this free country. I also extend heartfelt thanks to doctors who
are standing against enormous pressure to take innocent lives.