tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post8781399495548348320..comments2024-03-06T19:21:15.708-05:00Comments on RealChoice: Abortion Blogging Angie does softball interviewChristina Duniganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-69375437504124990852010-03-10T07:54:06.187-05:002010-03-10T07:54:06.187-05:00Hi Christina
It wasn't me that wrote the link...Hi Christina<br /><br />It wasn't me that wrote the link for Sad Days it was L. - but I can see why its confusing.Lilliputhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10793985988929869028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-20052016833641614882010-03-09T19:41:11.346-05:002010-03-09T19:41:11.346-05:00I'm gonna say that the twit, er, um, "twi...I'm gonna say that the twit, er, um, "twitterer" (tweeter?) just used the term incorrectly out of ignorance. Probably got mixed up with the doctor's explanation (or lack thereof), or just knew that something was inserted in (more technically "through") her cervix. Perhaps just a slip of the tongue. However, she doesn't seem like the brightest bulb in the light fixture, so she may never have worried her pretty little head about precisely what parts she has where and what happens to them during an IUD placement.Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10118292622669944944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-56731944643610694372010-03-09T17:21:23.935-05:002010-03-09T17:21:23.935-05:00Lil, a lot of the time women are trapped in learne...Lil, a lot of the time women are trapped in learned helplessness. They feel like there's nothing they can do to get out of their bad situation. The abortion maintains the wretched status quo, which while not great is at least what they know how to cope with.<br /><br />Help rejecting abortion means help overcoming the feelings of being trapped and helpless. I know from my own experience how trapped a woman can feel, not wanting to go through with an abortion but just not seeing any other way. Turns out what we needed was just to move to a better neighborhood. We needed a friend who LITERALLY dragged us out of the apartment and made us get in the car and look for another place. I was convinced that it was an exercise in futility. But we found a place the first day out! And that move improved all of our circumstances. We went from starving ourselves and selling our wedding rings to buy food, to be able to have guests over for dinner. All because somebody cared enough to jolt us out of our despair.<br /><br />I want to see women provided with that kind of support. It didn't take that much for us. Some women need more help. (If you read Ashli's story, <a href="http://thesiclecell.blogspot.com/2003/02/it-began-with-desperate-email-to-woman.html" rel="nofollow">"It began with a desperate email"</a>, you can get the idea.Christina Duniganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-49396217375480827792010-03-09T09:31:29.083-05:002010-03-09T09:31:29.083-05:00Christina, the link gives some insight into why th...Christina, the link gives some insight into why those women went into that horrific clinic which we wondered about before. I'm just thinking that if they don't even have enough money for the abortion how are they going to have enough money for the baby?Lilliputhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10793985988929869028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-54334495972647241862010-03-09T07:55:33.632-05:002010-03-09T07:55:33.632-05:00There are all sorts of IUDs, in all sorts of amazi...There are all sorts of IUDs, in all sorts of amazing shapes -- the t-shaped ones have more than a string in the cervix, they actually have...well, I don't know how to say, substantial working parts.<br /><br />I preferred to cally mine a "baby bug zapper," although I suppose technically it was a sperm zapper. :)L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13437332749627332216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-8079466819136675862010-03-09T04:41:50.730-05:002010-03-09T04:41:50.730-05:00And L, the IUD itself is an intraUTERINE device. I...And L, the IUD itself is an intraUTERINE device. If it's just sitting there in the cervix (not the string hanging out the cervix), it wasn't inserted properly.Christina Duniganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-25191437414917545072010-03-09T04:41:05.557-05:002010-03-09T04:41:05.557-05:00L, I'm turning that into a link, and I"ll...L, I'm <a href="http://abortioneers.blogspot.com/2010/03/sad-times.html" rel="nofollow">turning that into a link</a>, and I"ll blog about it later.<br /><br />One point I want to make -- carrying an unplanned pregnancy to term is hardly a horror. Of the six kids in my family, half of us were unplanned. I was conceived when my father was out of work and my parents were struggling to put food on the table for two other kids. They've never seemed to regret letting me live, and give every evidence of loving my other two "oops" siblings just as much as the planned kids.<br /><br />It's been well documented for decades that ambivalence -- even to the point of rejecting the pregnancy -- is perfectly normal and almost always self-limiting. "Treating" it with abortion strikes me as malpractice, of using an irreversible medical procedure to "treat" a condition that would clear up on its own. It used to resolve with "quickening", but modern medical technology gives us ultrasound, which allows the mother to bond with the unborn child earlier and thus resolve her ambivalence earlier. Why is this proven method of alleviating the distress of an unplanned pregnancy not only not used by champions of "choice", but every attempt by others to provide the treatment fought tooth and nail?Christina Duniganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-76222768916493629312010-03-09T01:40:01.123-05:002010-03-09T01:40:01.123-05:00@nextthurs didn't just stop tweeting - she sto...@nextthurs didn't just stop tweeting - she stopped blogging and she stopped using formspring as well. We haven't heard from her in a week. She seems to have dropped off the face of the planet - or at least the internet.MoonChild02https://www.blogger.com/profile/09743142130409283268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-56606826454682236592010-03-08T21:52:18.891-05:002010-03-08T21:52:18.891-05:00It is also interesting that Angie befriended anoth...It is also interesting that Angie befriended another woman that was livetweeting her abortion as well...Her user name was @nextthurs. It has been 8 days since she stopped tweeting and it sounds like there may have been complications & that is why she stopped...One of her very last tweets was about bleeding like a stuffed pig all day...She has other children as well...Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934565075934073346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-11395524587489353212010-03-08T21:42:57.659-05:002010-03-08T21:42:57.659-05:00Actually, parts of the IUD DO remain the cervix. S...Actually, parts of the IUD DO remain the cervix. Some of them are T-shaped, and others have strings so that they can be removed easily, and to make sure they aren't "adrift" in the uterus. I know -- I used to have an IUD, and I had to check, every so often, that the string was still there, and was supposed to call the doctor immediately if I couldn't find it.<br /><br />By the way, you might find this interesting:<br /><br />http://abortioneers.blogspot.com/2010/03/sad-times.htmlL.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13437332749627332216noreply@blogger.com