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sunnydale47
Mar. 16th, 2006 12:31 amconuly
Or you can just read her entire post on abortion.
Now that that's said, and let me hasten to assure you that I don't see this as being useful anytime in the forseeable future, the (in)famous post on how to do an abortion.
I'm posting this not because it's useful but because there's no reason not to.
On a similar subject, I read a murder mystery a while back where one of the characters had suffered a series of miscarriages earlier in life. It turned out that her semi-abusive husband had been slipping her rue. This is the part where I crack up. We had rue growing in our yard for a while. Not sure why, the only purpose for that plant I ever saw was to "cause a period to come early" (as our herb books euphemistically put it). Nasty tasting stuff. I tried it once, just to find out... ick. (And then I took great pleasure in daring other people to try it. So worth the experience of trying it myself!)
Of course, that'd be just as potentially dangerous as trusting an autodidactic abortion clinic.
And god knows we don't want to have to resort to anything more desperate, stuff ranging from coat hangers to outright infanticide. Infanticide, remember, is the traditional recourse of people without decent birth control.
Which leaves safe, legal abortions. Or better contraceptives than we happen to have now. Believe it or not, I don't think that abstinance counts, other than in a very technical way.
Oh, and please note that I'm not advocating that anybody use any method to create an abortion other than visiting a reputable clinic with reputable, trained doctors. Please, think of your safety.
Now that that's said, and let me hasten to assure you that I don't see this as being useful anytime in the forseeable future, the (in)famous post on how to do an abortion.
I'm posting this not because it's useful but because there's no reason not to.
On a similar subject, I read a murder mystery a while back where one of the characters had suffered a series of miscarriages earlier in life. It turned out that her semi-abusive husband had been slipping her rue. This is the part where I crack up. We had rue growing in our yard for a while. Not sure why, the only purpose for that plant I ever saw was to "cause a period to come early" (as our herb books euphemistically put it). Nasty tasting stuff. I tried it once, just to find out... ick. (And then I took great pleasure in daring other people to try it. So worth the experience of trying it myself!)
Of course, that'd be just as potentially dangerous as trusting an autodidactic abortion clinic.
And god knows we don't want to have to resort to anything more desperate, stuff ranging from coat hangers to outright infanticide. Infanticide, remember, is the traditional recourse of people without decent birth control.
Which leaves safe, legal abortions. Or better contraceptives than we happen to have now. Believe it or not, I don't think that abstinance counts, other than in a very technical way.
Oh, and please note that I'm not advocating that anybody use any method to create an abortion other than visiting a reputable clinic with reputable, trained doctors. Please, think of your safety.
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Date: 2006-03-16 06:14 am (UTC)Tennessee is going to go through the same thing, and I fear the worst for it, given the probable percentile of this population being misinformed, ignorant, and/or religiously-conservative people. *shudders* Really, the restriction or ban on abortions forces people into WORSE decisions.
I am ALL FOR better and more-available contraception. It's good that most places carry condoms, but it's not enough. We need REASONABLE sex education, less of a hush-hush attitude toward sex, and for goodness sakes BETTER HEALTHCARE.
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Date: 2006-03-16 06:14 am (UTC)Tennessee is going to go through the same thing, and I fear the worst for it, given the probable percentile of this population being misinformed, ignorant, and/or religiously-conservative people. *shudders* Really, the restriction or ban on abortions forces people into WORSE decisions.
I am ALL FOR better and more-available contraception. It's good that most places carry condoms, but it's not enough. We need REASONABLE sex education, less of a hush-hush attitude toward sex, and for goodness sakes BETTER HEALTHCARE.