Re: Roberts Confirmed As Chief Justice
From: Andrew Folley (agfolley@hotmail.com)
Thu Sep 29 18:11:39 2005
"a small step backwards for women, a giant step forward for unborn babies"
Neil A. 1969
>fear that it is possible for Roe v Wade to be overturned. Big move
>backwards if it happens. Women and their partners will make the
>decision to terminate - whether it is legal or not
>From: islesannie@yahoo.com (Joanne Bulley, MD)
>Reply-To: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net
>To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L <ob-gyn-l@dns.obgyn.net>
>Subject: Re: Roberts Confirmed As Chief Justice
>Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:08:18 -0500
>
>Thanks for asking that question, Rich. It is good to hear from Dan. I
>fear that it is possible for Roe v Wade to be overturned. Big move
>backwards if it happens. Women and their partners will make the
>decision to terminate - whether it is legal or not. And there will be
>significant medical and personal consequences as a result.
>
>We couold not legislate other "moral" questions, such as alcohol and
>this is one we shold also not legislate. Let the person making the
>decision answer to her maker.
>
>But most of you probably already knew that would be my response.
>
>I did not know this until after I was accepted into my residency, but
>due to dire financial concerns in raising the children they already had,
>my mother had a "kitchen table" abortion back in 1956 or 57. Luckily
>the surgeon who gave her the name of the doc who came to the house -
>also said that if she bled one extra bit she could call him - so she did
>and had that immediate emptying of the uterus. So we did have a mother
>for the family. Dad then had a vas ... in the days when the doc doing
>the vas said he had to have a note from Mom's doc saying she couldn't
>have any more children (I was #3) ... Mom's doc said "oh - you can
>still have more" ... and she told him to just go ahead and sign it.
>
>Joanne
>
>At Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Richard Chudacoff, MD wrote:
> >
> >Wonder if Dan, Zach or other 'gray hairs' can give us an on-line
>symposium
> >on managing septic abortions?
> >
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> >The vote was 78-22.
> >
> >Dean Huffman
> >
>
>--
>Joanne Bulley, MD
>Keene, NH, USA
>
>"Love is indescribable and unconditional.
>I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is."
>— Duke Ellington, American jazz artist (1899-1974).
