Giving Women Power Threatens Abortionists
Dateline 6/7/00
Abortion advocates in Louisiana concede that giving power to post-abortion women threatens the abortion industry in their state.
Abortion is unique among surgeries and other procedures in that it involves organs that one simply doesn't use every day of the week. An injury to the bowel, the liver, the heart, the brain, is likely to become immediately evident. But abortion injuries don't necessarily become evident until the woman tries to have a child later.
Abortion is also unique in that it necessarily involves a death. Post-abortion women often are able to successfully cope with the death of the unborn child for many years before they break down and suffer obvious ill effects.
By extending the statute of limitations for abortion lawsuits to ten years, legislators hope to offset the unique protections abortion offers practitioners, and the unique burdens abortion places upon the injured women.
Abortion enthusiasts are not happy about this. They claim that extending the statute of limitations and giving more right to redress to abortion-injured women amounts to "essentially a ban on abortions in Louisiana."
That sounds to me like an admission that abortion is likely to have so many long-range ill effects that holding abortionists accountable for the injuries they inflict is a threat to abortion itself.
For more on abortion's ill effects:
Abortion Complications
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