Gotta love "Pro-Life"-ers

[theweaselking]

14-year-old Polish girl raped at school, pregnant, but, despite abortion being legal, can't get one - because deranged Catholics have assaulted and threatened to kill every willing doctor she can get close to.

She was taken from her home to "protect" her from her mother, because her mother supported her right to an abortion.

She went to one gynecologist who *said* she'd perform an abortion, booked an appointment, put the girl in a room, and then promptly called in a priest. Which is apparently legal because medical privacy laws in Poland are ethics-based, enforced by associations of practitioners instead of the courts, and the organisation has chosen not to pursue the claim against this woman.

Also,
11-year-old rape victim in Romania denied an abortion because "rape has not been proven".

Comments

[torrain.livejournal.com]

> I don't know what her deal is.

Then you're probably not in a position to pass judgement on whether she's being irresponsible and just thinks getting scraped out is the easiest option available to her, or whether there's something else going on which means she can't use another form or another form doesn't work for or isn't available to her.

(I mean, perhaps she *does* discuss all the medical details that are difficult and embarrassing to bring up even to a physician with you, her college friend. But without access to her medical files and inner dialogue, how the hell can you tell?)

>> Where exactly do you find these women who use abortion as their
>> only form of birth control?
> the other person was on the pill and it apparently failed.

If she needed an abortion? I think you can strike the "apparently".

But in that case, she's clearly not someone who uses abortion as her only form of birth control, and isn't an example applicable to the question.