We Love Our Abortions

Roughly one million induced abortions are performed each year in the United States alone. Although deemed safe, "therapeutic abortions, as well as spontaneous miscarriages, can lead to a variety of complications."

So say a couple of experts in the field you never heard of (Karima R. Sajadi-Ernazarova, Christopher L. Martinez) I found on the Internet. They go on: "If uterine perforation, bladder or bowel injury are suspected, patients need hemodynamic resuscitation and expedited transfer to the operating room. If a septic abortion is suspected, sepsis treatment must be instituted according to institutional guidelines, broad-spectrum antibiotics must be initiated as early as the diagnosis is considered, and arrangements need to be made to transfer the patient to the operating room."

So if you ask me, it's best to have an abortion done in a hospital setting, or at least near a hospital, or at least by a doctor who can get you into a hospital, right? Apparently not all women give a hoot about this and will have the procedure done anywhere they can. A case currently being considered by the Supreme Court (Gee vs. June Medical Services) is about this very thing. At issue is a law on the books in Louisiana saying an abortion can only be performed by a doctor who has privileges at a nearby hospital, and there are hardly any of those around there, making many women unable to get an abortion, at least not within the law. The plaintiff in the case (June Medical Services) is seeking to have that overturned.

Naturally, abortion rights activists in their pink pussy hats are enraged and fighting this change. I guess lots of women would rather be dead than have a baby.