Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

Not your mother’s back alley (abortion clinic)

By Christine M. Flowers
Posted in the Philadelphia Daily News

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I KNEW they’d try to spin this one, given the implications.

We’ve been told for decades that because of Roe v. Wade, abortion
can now be safe and legal (at well over a million a year in the U.S.,
only the naive would call it “rare”). No more dirty coat hangers.
Bye-bye, back alleys.

The legalization of abortion was supposed to have protected not only
“a woman’s right to choose,” but women’s health in general.
Unfortunately, the advocates hadn’t yet heard of Dr. Kermit B. Gosnell
and his abortion house of horrors.

In the wake of revelations about the unethical practices, unlicensed
practitioners and grisly conditions at the West Philadelphia family
planning clinic (are mummified fetuses in jars a form of birth
control?), I expected the pro-choice activists to circle the wagons and
attack a much greater enemy than the doctor himself: pro-lifers.

They didn’t disappoint me.

Abortion is still legal and widely available in Pennsylvania. Which
means legalization hasn’t entirely eliminated the questionable medical
practitioners who plied their trade in the dingy pre-Roe alleys. It
just moved them into the light of day on Lancaster Avenue.

But the pro-choice crowd simply can’t admit that. They’ll
acknowledge that licensing requirements must be made stricter. They’ll
applaud the fact that Pennsylvania suspended Gosnell’s license, and
that he agreed to a suspension in Delaware. They’ll say that this
doctor wasn’t typical of the average abortion provider.

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