how the other side sees it
tonight i endured a lecture called 'women's health after abortion' at MAC, usually known as the home of evidenced-based medicine and medical excellence, period. the speaker spun a tale of how abortion leads to male anger and therefore spousal abuse. she claims it leads to depersonalization and lack of maternal attachment (to future offspring, although she didn't clarify that) and child abuse too, which she then said leads to learning disorders. a family physician, she explained she abandons her patients when they request abortions, and threw guilt like a big black cloak over all of us willing to think patient autonomy in medical decision-making actually extends to pregnant patients as well.
whilst i was being so tortured by corrupted epidemiology, i thought of how there might be correlations between apple juice consumption as a toddler and a preference for pink shoes in later life, and the obvious connection of that to sprained ankles. i mean it is just so blazingly obvious.
this doctor has won awards for community education from the royal college of physicians! she sits on a bioethics board! she is PUBLISHED!
posted by Grandmothers of Steel @ 9:34 PM
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oh. god. judging from the title, i thought you meant men. i mean, i know there's also an 'other' side of women, who are anti-choice, but i try not to think about them because their complicity is not only tragic, it's dangerous. nothing supports a cause like: "see, she's one of them, and agrees with us". rrrarg. how infuriating! was there a question/rant period? or were attendees too stupefied to react immediately?
miche my darling thank you for your empathy. it was so difficult to stand! there was a row of med students i sort-of know, who, armed with meta-analyses and systematic reviews disproving everything she said, put up a good fight. i felt like screaming 'if you have got such a big concern about men beating up women how about joining radical feminism!!!?' but, instead, i made encouraging smiles and disparaging grunts, depending on what was appropriate to the responses coming from audience members more quick to the draw. like the separation of church and state, i truly believe religion should get its ass our of the medical profession. for goddess sake, my tax dollars paid for her education, and now they pay her immodest salary!
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