sends along a sample of how easily, here in the ultraviolet city of Seattle, Murder Inc. can say just about anything, no matter how ridiculous, and be taken seriously by their adherents and supporters:
If one wants to see the absolute lunacy of Planned Parenthood, look no further than this quote from the Times article:
“Swedish should never have been doing those things [abortions] in a hospital, anyway,” Charbonneau said. “We have really perfected the office procedure. When you take people into a hospital, you add a level of complications and danger,” unnecessarily medicalizing the procedure and typically making it more expensive, she said.
Really? When you leave a strip mall and move into a hospital, you “add a level of complications and danger”?? Stunning. Not to mention the fact that abortions are referred to as “those things” and are “perfected”. When was the last time someone had killing “perfected”? Oh yeah….
On another note, the sheer amount of oozing, festering, rancid hatred in the combox is chilling.
Help us, save us, have mercy on us, and keep us O God by thy grace.
We Americans like our acts of violence and death nice and privatized. It’s all about aesthetics.
With respect to Mark and the reader, this is “abortionists are stoopid!!” knee jerk thinking. This kind of thing is done all the time with routine outpatient surgeries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outpatient_surgery
If the quote said this:
“Swedish should never have been doing those things [knee arthroscopy] in a hospital, anyway. We have really perfected the office procedure. When you take people into a hospital, you add a level of complications and danger,” unnecessarily medicalizing the procedure and typically making it more expensive, she said.
you would not object in the least, and probably wouldn’t have even heard about it because it wouldn’t be newsworthy if it were about knees.
The problem with abortion is not how or where it is done, but the fact that it is done at all.
“you would not object in the least, and probably wouldn’t have even heard about it because it wouldn’t be newsworthy if it were about knees.”
Sorry, I know knee arthroscopy is a low-risk outpatient procedure, but would it “add a level of complications and danger” to do it at a hospital? No.
Risk of infection is lower than at a hospital (hospitals are a great place to get sick). According to one study I found in about five minutes of googling the rates of subsequent inpatient hospitalization and death are lower for outpatient surgery clinics vs hospitals for the same procedure.
If you agree with their (incorrect) assumption that abortion is OK, everything else about doing it at a clinic vs a hospital makes complete sense. It’s only the killing a human being part that is problematic, and that’s wrong no matter where it’s done.
I know anything that comes out of pro-choice camp is necessarily viewed here as deeply sinister, but there is a great deal of sense in their bias against hospitals for any procedure. Inpatient care varies of course by the institution, but in general, it is an incredibly dangerous proposition. You’re at much higher risk of deadly infection and malpractice of all sorts. I have dealt with numerous hospitalizations of relatives and in every single instance, the hospital inflicted a worse problem than the one that led to their being admitted in the first place. Massive overdoses of blood thinners, bed sores, infections, you name it. I have never seen an exception to this.
In most of these cases, the only reason they survived at all was because one of us was present every day to monitor things and raise hell when they started to go sour. A few years ago, when I had back surgery to remove part of a ruptured disc, I actually went home that evening, by choice rather than spend the night even though it would have been covered by insurance and it was one of the better hospitals.
In my observation, the reasons hospitals are so dangerous is that in institutional environments, intelligence and responsibility devolves down to the lowest common denominator. The environment teaches people to never take ownership of any problem and to lose it in the shuffle until one’s shift is over. In addition, most facilities are massively understaffed in nursing and cut every single corner they can. The fact that you consider abortion providers evil does not negate the wisdom of what they say on this matter. Sometimes even evil people speak truth.