Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

In the near future we will be hearing about a new book being published, authored by Lori Freedman; "Willing and Unable: Doctors Constraints in Abortion Care".

The book will address the issues that cause ob-gyns to refrain from offering abortions in their medical practices even if they are willing to perform them.

In an interview I heard with Lori, she speaks of the barriers doctors face, from practices who do not do abortions to hospitals that do not allow them (really where are those?).

Here is one of the reviews on the book:

"Lori Freedman's qualitative research is critical to understanding why
only half of ob-gyns who intend to do elective abortions when starting
residency actually offer them for patients once in practice. The depth
and sophistication of her analyses make her findings especially
profound and will shake this area of research, abortion training and
provision, to its core. What she has uncovered–the complex ways
stigmatization affects ob-gyns in practice–will inform many people and
programs in reproductive health research, medical training, and the
reproductive rights movement. With these insights, we will be better
able to help ob-gyns overcome obstacles to provision in practice. We
will also better understand where in medicine and medical practice we
can focus our efforts of mainstreaming abortion."–Jody Steinauer,
MD, Research Director, Kenneth J. Ryan Residency Training Program in
Abortion and Family Planning, University of California, San Francisco,
and Founder of Medical Students for Choice

There is that word again "Stigma". So, women are not free because of the "stigma" of abortion. If we just de stigmatize it all will be well. Ob-gyns do not perform them many times because of the stigma of abortion…it amazes me that they continue to blame the "stigma". Did they ever stop to really look at why there is a stigma? Let me tell you guys, it is because we are killing our children!

That "stigma" gives me hope that most people in our world still have a conscience and know what is right and wrong….God help us if the stigma ever goes away, we will have more problems then a lack of Ob-gyns who will do abortions, we will be a world of the walking dead….