Reply #41: So did my kidney tumor operation. [View All]

[knitter4democracy]

Medical stuff is nasty. Doctors are trained to do inhumane things to humans to keep them alive. When I read an article for surgeons on how to do my kind of kidney surgery, I freaked out and had to stop reading to go puke (ended up only being dry heaves, but it hurt). My surgeon did all that to keep me alive, and you know what, I'm still here.

Abortions are safer than the older, more traditional methods of causing a miscarriage, the ones known since Eve's daughters' time. In Exodus 20, if a man beats a pregnant woman badly enough she loses the baby, he's to pay a fine, but if he kills her as well, he's to be stoned to death. So, at least that long ago, womankind knew that beating a preggers woman could make her miscarriage--have an abortion--but also could make her die. So could mistletoe, shoving something into her cervix hard and repeatedly, or a thin crochet hook or knitting needle. Doctors came up with the abortion procedure to keep women from dying.