tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post7407879562367909383..comments2024-03-06T19:21:15.708-05:00Comments on RealChoice: Search: Abortion for the life of the motherChristina Duniganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-79367183215957683662022-06-27T16:23:49.999-04:002022-06-27T16:23:49.999-04:00Good evening,
my name is Sara and I am an Italia...Good evening, <br /><br />my name is Sara and I am an Italian woman. I am following the debate following the Supreme Court decision with curiosity, so I found your blog. <br /><br />I anticipate my position to clear the field of misunderstandings: I consider abortion to be an ethical dilemma, but as a woman I am sincerely concerned because the vast majority of Italian gynaecologists are against the right to abortion and in at least one case have caused the death of a young mother. <br /><br />I'm talking about the case of Valentina Milluzzo, which is very similar to that of Savita Halappanavar in Ireland and that of Andrea Prudente in Malta: Valentina was 19 weeks pregnant with twins and had a miscarriage, but it was too slow. <br />After several days Valentina started to have a body temperature of 34 degrees and told her parents that she felt like she was dying. The hospital gynaecologist told her parents and her sister at least twice that he could not intervene because the twins' hearts were still beating. She died a few hours after.<br />All the gynaecologists at the hospital are being prosecuted for not intervening in time.<br /><br />One sentence you write strikes me the most: apparently Ireland has the lowest rates in Europe for maternal mortality. <br />It is a sentence I also read about Malta, and it makes me suspect the following: the rate is so low because Irish and Maltese women, knowing the law in force, resolve critical situations themselves with some do-it-yourself 'kit' or by paying for a trip abroad.<br /><br />I understand the scruples of conscience of those who have to materially perform the abortion, however the 'radicalisation' of pro-life positions concretely endangers the lives of women who had a miscarriage but did not even want to have an abortion.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02453572789364945434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-8596697220867579662014-10-09T19:05:17.270-04:002014-10-09T19:05:17.270-04:00Um, there are some conditions related to pregnancy...Um, there are some conditions related to pregnancy that require the removal of the fetus.<br /><br />Preeclampsia and uterine rupture are among them. <br /><br />You also neglect to mention ectopic pregnancy. <br /><br />Your site is informative but please get the facts on this.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18063152122926965092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-75597581815527352202013-04-03T04:28:02.659-04:002013-04-03T04:28:02.659-04:00Margaret, I'm sorry to hear about the co-worke...Margaret, I'm sorry to hear about the co-workers' deaths. However, there is no evidence that abortion increases the mother's long-term survival. The current evidence is that it reduces long-term survival. When you already have an aggressive cancer, doing something that increases the risk of mortality isn't going to help. And it will not help the mother emotionally.<br /><br />Doctors need to stay up to date on research and inform their patients based on current information, not based on what reduces the odds of being sued.Christina Duniganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-10179450192360976002013-04-02T10:44:41.178-04:002013-04-02T10:44:41.178-04:00I have known two women, co-workers, who were pregn...I have known two women, co-workers, who were pregnant and then diagnosed with breast cancer. Breast Cancer frequently reacts to the hormones in a woman's body and each of these women had such receptors. One elected to abort to allow herself aggressive treatment so she could survive her breast cancer and be alive for her other child and husband. The other elected not to abort but to bring her fetus to term. <br />Sadly, both women died. but cancer in a mother is certainly a reason to consider abortion as a treatment to save the life of the mother. Margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02540696285257460483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-81941980488938124032009-07-23T03:48:36.446-04:002009-07-23T03:48:36.446-04:00I think that in most cases there does not need to ...I think that in most cases there does not need to be a choice between child and mother.<br />However, it would be presumptuous to say that the situation would NEVER arise.<br />If it did, I don't think anyone who believes in the right to life would choose to sacrifice the mother over the child.<br />The health of the mother takes precedence, In my opinion.Hamsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10045933530624125001noreply@blogger.com