Doctor weighs in on Roberts
The Philadelphia Inquirer has a great column today reminding us (as if we needed one, but still!) why it’s so amazingly important that we know as much as we can on Roberts and his views on choice.
Thomas Allen, a doctor and member of Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health (PRCH), tells it like it is:
From the early 1940s until 1973, when Roe v. Wade was decided, I saw the effects of illegal abortion firsthand. Hospital wards were crowded with women with infections and blood loss caused by illegal or self-induced abortions. Many, if they didn't die from gas gangrene or something else, were permanently injured and would never be able to have children.
I have five daughters, and I didn't want them ever to be in the position of having an unwanted pregnancy with nowhere to turn. When my hospital formed an abortion approval committee, I voted yes in every instance. I didn't feel guilty, because I knew how wrong the law was.
Many women outside of that hospital had no choice but to risk their lives and health. These women were desperate. They used coat hangers. They used knitting needles. It was a horrible, unnecessary, pervasive problem for physicians. We were powerless.
Those are the stakes with this Supreme Court nomination: not just individual rights and freedoms, but also public health. A Supreme Court justice who opposes legal
abortion is a threat to the health and lives of women nationwide.
I have five daughters, and I didn't want them ever to be in the position of having an unwanted pregnancy with nowhere to turn. When my hospital formed an abortion approval committee, I voted yes in every instance. I didn't feel guilty, because I knew how wrong the law was.
Many women outside of that hospital had no choice but to risk their lives and health. These women were desperate. They used coat hangers. They used knitting needles. It was a horrible, unnecessary, pervasive problem for physicians. We were powerless.
Those are the stakes with this Supreme Court nomination: not just individual rights and freedoms, but also public health. A Supreme Court justice who opposes legal
abortion is a threat to the health and lives of women nationwide.
Make sure to read the rest of the piece, and to check out PRCH’s new site, www.voicesofchoice.org.
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