Whose fault is it when aborting women die? It depends, according to abortion proponents. If the abortion was illegal, we are. If the abortion was legal, she is.Cases in point, yesteryear's illegal abortion of Gerri Santoro and this year's legal abortion of Edrica Goode.
You've likely seen the haunting, iconic photo of Gerri Santoro, dead, naked, knees to chest with bloody bottom in the air on a hotel room floor, the result of an illegal abortion in 1964 at age 27....
Ms. Magazine called Santoro a "victim" of "butchery" by an "unskilled abortionist."...
Flash forward 34 years to these sunny days of safe, legal abortions.
On Feb. 14, 2007, 21-year-old Edrica Goode became the third woman in four years to die after an abortion at a California mill....
According to blogger World Wide Rant, "Edrica Goode died because of her own willful negligence or general stupidity." ...
Continue reading my column today, "Who's to blame when aborting women die?"on WorldNetDaily.com.
I've noticed that in my years of researching abortion mortality. Even the Centers for Disease Control does it! Mona addressed it in Lime 5, starting with the final paragraph of page 147 and continuing onto page 148.
"In once incident, the CDC used [Planned Parenthood] guidelines to affix blame on the community in which a woman died from a legal abortion, rather than on the abortionist who killed her. Another example ... is seen in one of their 1981 reports. In it, one death from each of the legal, illegal, and spontaneous categories was examined in detail. For the section on the illegal abortion death, little information was given except that the woman had not tried to get a legal abortion nor had she seen a doctor about her pregnancy.
The section on the legal abortion death had much more information.... They concluded that the woman was partially at fault for her own death because she was not using contraceptives and got pregnant. .... this standard was not applied to the woman who died from the illegal abortion, although apparently she did not use contraception either. ....
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To recap, this official CDC publication .... determine[d] that (a) legal abortion death was the fault of the woman; (b) an illegal abortion was simply tragic, but no one's fault; and (c) a spontaneous abortion death was caused by doctors who irresponsibly failed to perform an abortion on a woman who didn't want one."
You also see this in the death of Rosie Jimenez. Abortion advocates blame her death on Henry Hyde because he was behind the federal decision to stop coughing up taxpayer money for elective abortions. But they don't blame Rosie for repeatedly failing to use birth control and repeatedly aborting -- with tax money. They don't blame her doctor, who simply told her that she wasn't gonna get another free abortion and didn't provide her with any further information or care. They don't blame the abortion advocates who had been shouting from the rooftops that women would "be forced to resort to dangerous back alley abortions" while ignoring the fact that abortions at Planned Parenthood cost just five dollars more than the illegal abortion that killed Rosie.
And they don't blame Rosie for being too cheap to spend five more dollars for a "safe and legal" PP abortion, for failing to go to the hospital promptly when she began suffering complications, or for failing to tell hospital staff about the abortion when she finally went there.
Nor do they blame the midwife who performed the fatal abortion.
It's all Henry Hyde's fault.
But when a woman dies from a "safe and legal" abortion, the fault is ALWAYS hers, either because she got pregnant in the first place, or she didn't shop around and find a safer facility, or she didn't respond properly to her symptoms. But an illegal abortion death (even when, as in the case of Becky Bell, there wasn't an abortion in the first place) is always the prolifers' fault.