I saw a different doctor today, and decided to ask him about abortion. He says "well, it's legal today in our country..." I said, "Doctor, you are acting like you're at a confirmation hearing!I want to know your opinion." He doesn't perform them, and wouldn't choose them for his daughter or wife, but thinks it should be legal because "it saves women's lives." I asked in what way, and he says "from back alley abortions."
Yeah...well, if a woman is dumb enough to pay someone in an "alley" to kill her baby, she's taking that risk and should deal with the consequences of infection. What an idiot to say it saves lives...and I am so sick of the "backalley abortions" statement...as if there were crazies just waiting in alley ways with knives and vacuums...
Then he procedes to brag about how he's a lawyer too. He says he doesn't like that women use it as birth control. I asked him if he thinks babies are alive before an abortion, and he said "the point of viability varies.." I asked him if he would say my 16 week old baby, whose heartbeat he just measured, is alive. He of course said, "yeah! you couldn't have an abo--well, in certain states you could." He says he's seen abortions at 20 weeks and it's gruesome and wrong. But before that it's okay? As long as it's smaller and less bloody?
I ask him in Tom Coburn style, "If the point of viability is always changing due to technological advancements, shouldn't that affect the ruling of Roe v. Wade, which states that abortion should be legal up until the fetus is viable?" He at least agreed that Roe v. Wade was flawed in attributing the right to abortion as being implied in the constitution...and yet he thinks it should be legal to save women's lives?
He then says "well I understand that there are strong opinions on both sides."
Think about that. What a total waste of breath to essentially tell me, people have opinions. Duh. That doesn't change the fact that there is a definitive RIGHT and WRONG. How disappointing that a lawyer/doctor uses such empty rhetoric to support his argument...
He tells me that people's faith has a lot to do with their strong feelings about it. I said, "this has nothing to do with my faith." and he proceded to tell me "yes it does." Basically, writing me off as a religious whacko. I said, "No, this isn't about my faith. This is about LOGIC."
Then he spews some more empty rhetoric and excuses saying it shouldn't be legal after a certain point..blah blah blah. By that time I was ready to leave, and I could tell he was too. I will not be seeing him again. But I do intend to write him a detailed letter because I didn't even get into it as far as I wanted to. It surprises me that someone with that much schooling and experience in this field, was never forced to examine these things and form any solid opinions. The letter might be thrown in the trash, but it will be a reminder not to underestimate his patients.
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