I wrote this little comment in the Times yesterday and a lot of people seemed to approve. I actually received a few dozen emails as a result.
In case you don't know, the Oklahoma legislature is at it again and passed a law aimed at abortion rights or lack thereof. One provision is that physicians actually don't have to tell the patient everything about a fetus - as in if he/she has a birth defect, etc., so to take that reason off the table if the woman considers an abortion.
I stand that I really don't like the idea of abortion one bit but and its a BIG BUT, it isn't my decision and it isn't my body and my pregnancy so my "vote" doesn't count. Further her or a couple's business isn't my business in the slightest so what I think or believe simply doesn't count a whit. Of course that is the issue at root. I just think anything that gets in the way of a physician and patient is horrible and the doctors in Oklahoma should be livid that they are being played like cheap banjos.
In case you don't know, the Oklahoma legislature is at it again and passed a law aimed at abortion rights or lack thereof. One provision is that physicians actually don't have to tell the patient everything about a fetus - as in if he/she has a birth defect, etc., so to take that reason off the table if the woman considers an abortion.
I stand that I really don't like the idea of abortion one bit but and its a BIG BUT, it isn't my decision and it isn't my body and my pregnancy so my "vote" doesn't count. Further her or a couple's business isn't my business in the slightest so what I think or believe simply doesn't count a whit. Of course that is the issue at root. I just think anything that gets in the way of a physician and patient is horrible and the doctors in Oklahoma should be livid that they are being played like cheap banjos.