A quick and ‘easy’ abortion

An article from the Twin Falls Idaho Times-News by Gretl Kauffman (Spokesman-Review, Jan. 1) reports that Idaho’s law that enables doctors to assist the state in gathering statistics on complications arising from abortions has been put on hold because of a lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood and Legal Voice, a Seattle-based advocacy group, on December 14, 2018. Also at issue is the law requiring that only licensed physicians perform abortions. They say that some clinics have a doctor in them only one or two days a month.

Mary Stark, a nurse practitioner in Oregon, who previously worked for Planned Parenthood, thinks the law places an undue hardship on a woman of making a decision to “rearrange (her) life around one or two days a month or … have to continue (the) pregnancy.” So she wants more clinics and the rights of others to butcher babies in the womb because the law, she believes, is unconstitutional. Those others she would allow to perform abortions “include (but are not limited to?) nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and nurse midwives.” I wonder who else the group of “others” includes. How about pharmacists dispensing morning-after pills? Any woman next door to a victim? Or maybe a eugenicist who wants a “pure” race?

I would suggest a little more willingness to rearrange a life by having a child, rather than a quick and easy abortion that she’ll regret sooner or later.

Judith Maibie

Spokane