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Pro-Choicers Have a Problem
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| Contributor | Imperator |
| Last Edited | Imperator Sep 17, 2013 07:16am |
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| Author | Betsy Woodruff |
| News Date | Tuesday, September 17, 2013 01:15:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Iowa’s fight over telemed abortions underscores the increasing scarcity of providers.
Up until November, you’ll be able to get an abortion in Iowa via a Skype-like connection during the early stages of pregnancy. Then new standards recently approved by the Iowa Board of Medicine, which require that a physician meet a pregnant woman in person before prescribing pills to cause an abortion, will kick in.
When Iowa banned webcam abortions, it helped augment one of the biggest problems for the pro-choice movement. While we have the most pro-choice president (and, arguably, the most pro-choice Senate) in history, and while groups like EMILY’s List helped propel a significant number of pro-choice candidates into Congress last November, there’s a problem for the pro-choice movement that no number of votes can fix: It’s getting increasingly difficult to actually find someone to give you an abortion.
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Dr. John Bruchalski, an OB-GYN who performed abortions before returning to the Catholic Church, has a different perspective on the abortion-provider shortage. He tells me that he encourages pro-choice med students to learn how to perform the procedures.
“I’ve told people, ‘If you really believe that abortion is a loving, good choice, you damn well better do it,’” he says.
And taking his challenge often leaves students repulsed, he adds.
“It’s very hard to recruit people to do abortions,” he says, “because once they do it, even if you’re pro-choice, it’s — the words I hear are, ‘disgusting, revolting, brutal, but it has to be done. It’s very difficult to do, but someone has to do it.’ And so you’re finding that only the hardest-core are going into it, and that’s not many people.” |
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