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In reply to the discussion: Being pro-life doesn’t make me any less of a lefty [View all]ismnotwasm
(41,989 posts)Is reproductive slavery. What's left about that?
I work in health care. For instance, I often provide dialysis, I've seen all kinds very poor outcomes from pregnancy up to and including disability and death (its not even my field), and every pregnancy is a risk. A distinction needs to be made on whose life we're being all 'pro' for. Because it does come down to that.
We have a NICU, where nurses and practitioners work incredibly hard to save, say a one pound infant.
A sonogram is emotional only if you have a reason to invest emotions. And those emotions are the business only of the women involved
Premies touch the hearts of everybody, not only because of their fragility, and how close they can be to death or permanent disability, but because a woman and whoever she has involved in her business has made a personal and profound choice. You can call that pro life.