One more good reason to keep abortion legal, from the perspective of a surgeon - you can insist that abortion providers be trained to do the procedure properly and competently. As a very junior resident, we saw a 17 year old girl come into our ER thanks to complications from an illegal abortion (the state in question required parental notification, which is another whole sticky mess). The instruments used had perforated through the wall of her uterus and into her rectum and at seventeen she ended up with a hysterectomy and a temporary colostomy as a result.
If I never see something like that again, it will be too soon. It was absolutely horrific. Making abortion illegal won't make it go away - but it will make it significantly less safe.
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Date: 2010-01-23 02:11 pm (UTC)If I never see something like that again, it will be too soon. It was absolutely horrific. Making abortion illegal won't make it go away - but it will make it significantly less safe.