Saturday, 27 October 2018

THIS 'HEALTH ISSUE' IS A VERY SICK JOKE (letter to Dom Post, October 28)

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Calling abortion a ‘health issue’ is a joke, and a very sick joke at that. 

There’s no such thing as a safe or 'healthy' abortion. Of 1.5 million women who had medical abortions in the US over 11 years 14 died, 612 were hospitalised, 58 had ectopic pregnancies, 339 had blood transfusions and 256 suffered infections.
One abortion carries a 30 per cent risk of complications in future pregnancies. Following an abortion women are more likely to have to use IVF. They may be under enormous pressure, from partner, family or abortion provider to act like nothing happened and can develop PAS (post-abortion syndrome). Abortion increases prematurity in subsequent pregnancies with its risks of infant death and disability. Shall I go on?
Only in the alternative universe of abortion activism could a procedure which is always violent and always ends in death be called ‘a health issue’. Minister of Health Andrew Little is on foreign turf and looks uncomfortable, as well he may.
This ‘health issue’ is such an horrific assault on women, I’m wondering if Little and ALRANZ’ s Terry Bellamak are using the same PR firm as Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince.

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