http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2009/06/how-to-honor-dr-george-tiller-support-womens-health-care-providers Daily dose of women's health news and media analysis Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:12:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2009/06/how-to-honor-dr-george-tiller-support-womens-health-care-providers/comment-page-1#comment-2431 Linda Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:03:36 +0000 http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/?p=7213#comment-2431 I am a 57 year old mother of 4 and grandmother of 9. The first book I ever read about women's health was Our Bodies Ourselves in 1970. I still have it and it is well worn. I am so saddened by the murder of Dr. Tiller. He was a good man who helped thousands of women through horrific situations. When I hear the anti-choice crowd screaming lies about him I feel so bad for his family who have lost a good husband, father and grandfather. He was the same age as my husband. The people who talk the loudest are the people who are the least informed about the reasons for late term abortions. My friend had one. Her baby had horrible birth defects and would have died soon after birth if not before. One problem for women is that the diagnostic ultrasounds are not done until week 18. After that more tests take additional weeks and soon the pregnancy is pretty advanced. Some women prefer to carry the fetus as long as possible because it gives them comfort. Other women are in agony every day that they wake up knowing that the baby they are carrying will die or suffer during it's short life. My point is that women and their doctors should have the freedom to make these decisions. I am really shocked that we have allowed our legal abortion rights to be whittled away state by state so that often the poorest and most vulnerable women have little or no access to the care they need. We really need to urge congress to pass the Freedom of Choice Act as soon as possible so that a woman in Mississippi has the same access as a woman in California. We need to urge the Justice Dept. to aggressively pursue the domestic terrorists who have frightened doctors away from providing abortion services. I am a 57 year old mother of 4 and grandmother of 9. The first book I ever read about women’s health was Our Bodies Ourselves in 1970. I still have it and it is well worn. I am so saddened by the murder of Dr. Tiller. He was a good man who helped thousands of women through horrific situations. When I hear the anti-choice crowd screaming lies about him I feel so bad for his family who have lost a good husband, father and grandfather. He was the same age as my husband. The people who talk the loudest are the people who are the least informed about the reasons for late term abortions. My friend had one. Her baby had horrible birth defects and would have died soon after birth if not before. One problem for women is that the diagnostic ultrasounds are not done until week 18. After that more tests take additional weeks and soon the pregnancy is pretty advanced. Some women prefer to carry the fetus as long as possible because it gives them comfort. Other women are in agony every day that they wake up knowing that the baby they are carrying will die or suffer during it’s short life. My point is that women and their doctors should have the freedom to make these decisions. I am really shocked that we have allowed our legal abortion rights to be whittled away state by state so that often the poorest and most vulnerable women have little or no access to the care they need. We really need to urge congress to pass the Freedom of Choice Act as soon as possible so that a woman in Mississippi has the same access as a woman in California. We need to urge the Justice Dept. to aggressively pursue the domestic terrorists who have frightened doctors away from providing abortion services.

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