Abortion: What Would You Have Done?

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What would you have done? Photo courtesy of www.spiritofmotherhood.com.

I made my choices in life and some were very emotional and difficult choices. I still believe I made the best choices in each case, for each time and circumstances.

By Citizen Correspondent Margaret Holborow

Date Posted: 12/13/07

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In the Australian news at the moment is a case that is bringing deep emotion and strong opinions to the surface. In fact, it is the one "issue" in our society today that everyone does seem to have an opinion of, from friends and family, to politicians and movie stars. If you are looking for a "cause" bandwagon to jump on this ones got it all. From bombings of abortion clinics, to court cases, street protests and massive media coverage.

If anyone wants to play the ratings game, they pull the abortion card. Oh wait, isn't that what I am doing? No, I am seriously contemplating an article I read first thing this morning in today’s headlines.

This particular case has stirred both sides of the debate. The anti-abortion right to lifers and the pro choice, pro abortion movements have both put their gloves on and stepped into the ring. This is the article in question. I have quoted some extracts:

Controversial abortion case that brought a doctor years of anguish

"It was clear what the woman wanted. She was pregnant, and distressed to the point of being suicidal. She had learned that her baby would be born with dwarfism. She pleaded with the doctors at the Royal Women's Hospital to terminate the pregnancy.

Lachlan de Crespigny and a handful of other doctors wanted to help her. So, on a Thursday afternoon in February 2000, they did as she asked. The role that Associate Professor de Crespigny played — injecting potassium chloride into the foetus's heart — took only a minute or two. But almost eight years on, a day can't go by without him reliving the ugly events that followed. It was lifesaving," he says now of the procedure that he insists he had a moral obligation to perform. 'If we didn't do it and the woman died we would have potentially been charged with manslaughter and gone to jail.

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