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Abortion: More common than a tonsillectomy
Posted by Kim on November 6th, 2007
A doctor has written a book about providing abortion services.
In her forthcoming book “This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor” (Public Affairs), Dr. Wicklund describes her work, the circumstances that lead her patients to choose abortion, and the barriers — lack of money, lack of providers, violence in the home or protesters at clinics — that stand in their way.
“We don’t talk about it,” she said in a telephone interview. “People say, ‘Nobody I know has ever had an abortion,’ and that is just not true. Their sisters, their mothers have had abortions.”
Dr. Wicklund, 53, said that at current rates almost 40 percent of American women have an abortion during their child-bearing years, a figure supported by the Guttmacher Institute, which researches reproductive health policy. Abortion is one of the most common operations in the United States, she said, more common than tonsillectomy or removal of wisdom teeth. “Because it is such a secret,” she said, “we lose sight of how common it is.”
That’s pretty sad isn’t it? About 40% of all women of childbearing age have had an abortion. It’s just another small elective procedure now too- no big deal. I know plenty of women, and younger girls, who have their babies aborted. ALL of them are not victims of anything other their own stupidity and it’s a real shame that people still try to have us believe otherwise.
November 7th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
Disagree with your views, but love your blog. I too am prone to dropping an f bomb now and then. You might be my conservative potty mouth blog soul mate.
Oh and call me stupid til the cows come home. Just stay out of my womb.
November 8th, 2007 at 3:56 am
Yep… over 48 million abortions and counting, and the feminazi Desperate Housewives ‘R Us crowd of the Poop Culture are criticizing Mitt Romney for being a Mormon, and Rudy for being married more than once? Gotta love THE VIEW, eh?!
November 9th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
The fact that you own your womb doesn’t give you the right to kill the human being inside it. Equality begins at conception.
November 11th, 2007 at 7:12 am
George Carlin said in the 70’s that most of the women who are pro-abortion are so ugly and skanky that most conservative men wouldn’t get turned on in the first place! AMEN George!!