WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for January, 2000: Re: abortion

Re: abortion

From: just (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 19 Jan 2000 11:05:00 -0600 (CST)

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At Tue, 18 Jan 2000, virginia wrote: >
>My 18 year old daughter is pregnant. Unfortunatly, before coming to me,
>she found a phone number in the yellow pages which proclaimed help for
>unwed, pregnant teens. It turns out that this is an organization run by
>a Right-to-Life group. They told my daughter, who was 5 weeks pregnant
>at the time, that the embryo can feel pain at this early stage. She is
>now 81/2 weeks pregnant, and is agonizing over a decision whether or not
>to have this baby, because she was told by these people that the embryo
>will feel the pain of an abortion. She has to make a decision soon-very
>soon. I need to be able to give her an informed, unbiased answer to
>this. I will support her, no matter what her decision, but I know she
>is not ready to be a mother, and I would hate for her to make this
>momentous decision based on erroneous information. Please help-and
>soon!!!!!

>From what I have read and viewed, a 12 week old fetus can feel pain,
earlier than that I cannot say. I did see an actual abortion video, which confimed my belief that it should not be done. The baby was moving as if trying to get away from the instruments.

Has your daughter considered adoption at all? There are so many women out there unable to have children who would love an opportunity to love a child. I have 2 little girls myself, I am almost 26, and because of an early hysterectomy (age 23) can not experience this ever again. Everytime I see babies now I think about what Ive done and sometimes regret it, but then think about how my whole family suffered because I was unable to do things with them.

Please have her leave this option open.

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