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 Mississippi Lawmaker Touts Possible Return of ‘Coat Hanger’ AbortionsPosted on May 15, 2012
A recent anti-abortion bill signed into law by Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant threatens to close the state’s only abortion clinic. That, in turn, could force women to turn to dangerous alternatives, including “coat hanger” abortions. Mississippi state Rep. Bubba Carpenter, however, seemed largely unconcerned that without the clinic, women may choose to perform the potentially deadly procedure on themselves. “Three blocks from the Capitol sits the only abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi,” Carpenter, a Republican, said at an Alcorn County GOP meeting last week. “A bill was drafted. It said, if you would perform an abortion in the state of Mississippi, you must be a certified OB-GYN and you must have admitting privileges to a hospital. Anybody here in the medical field knows how hard it is to get admitting privileges to a hospital. It’s going to be challenged, of course, in the Supreme Court and all—but literally, we stopped abortion in the state of Mississippi, legally, without having to—Roe vs. Wade. So we’ve done that. I was proud of it. The governor signed it into law. And of course, there you have the other side. They’re like, ‘Well, the poor pitiful women that can’t afford to go out of state are just going to start doing them at home with a coat hanger.’ That’s what we’ve heard over and over and over. But hey, you have to have moral values.” MSNBC host Rachel Maddow spoke with Carpenter about his remarks (seen below in their entirety). —TEB
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By Pavane, May 17, 2012 at 6:21 pm Link to this comment
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bilejones, I am old enough to remember when abortions were illegal.
And I remember the continual stream of news stories about women dying from ‘back-alley’ abortions. Back-alley abortions was a general term. It covered everything from self induced coat hangers or knitting needles to paying unqualified butchers in back rooms.
Abortion became legal (through Roe v. Wade) because so MANY women, teens and young girls died.
Report thisBy Marian Griffith, May 17, 2012 at 1:30 pm Link to this comment
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@Bilejones
—-Has anybody, anywhere, at any time found documented proof of “coathanger abortions”.—-
Coathanger abortions are a catchphrase that includes all forms of unsafe abortions. It is irrelevant if there ever has been an abortion performed by that particular method (which would be horribly dangerous to the woman at any rate, though probably still safer than resorting to poisons or punching the woman in the lower belly to try to dislodge the fetus from the womb).
According to the wikipedia the risk of legal and medicalised abortion is about 0.6 deaths per 100000 procedures. For unsafe abortions that risk is about 1 death in every 300 attempts (68.000 deaths being caused by 20 million unsafe abortions performed annually mostly in developing countries).
Apparently these zealots are proud to cause the deaths of hundreds of women all in the name of saving unborn life. Obviously the life of a woman is not worth saving to them… Nor, I might add is the life of the babies once born.
Report thisBy Marian Griffith, May 16, 2012 at 11:02 am Link to this comment
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Should be their new campaigning slogan:
The GOP, murdering women in a state near YOU!
(and some people wonder why I am pessimistic about women’s life and liberty in the USA in the next several decades when news like this is commonplace… With the GOP disenfranchising voter groups that tend to favour democrats in every way they can it is only a matter of time before they realise that they will have to strip women of their right to vote to stand any chance at winning an election if they keep trampling over their health and self determination like this)
Report thisBy gerard, May 15, 2012 at 6:02 pm Link to this comment
Of course it’s okay to drop bombs on thousands of other people’s babies, or let millions of them starve to death or die of avoidable diseases?? But abortion of our unwanted or possibly damaged embroyic babies here at home is a crime?? Where did the U.S. get all these gross, ignorant, cruel people with their cockeyed so-called Christianity? It’s hard to believe that this can happen at this late date in history. We all desperately need to come together and find ways to regain our humanity. States’ Rights doesn’t work very well when the quality of education is so disparate. Class ignorance doesn’t work either, when public education is forsaken. Everybody will pay, which may be the worst of it unless everybody can find ways to join together immediately and bring about profound social and economic change—or at least stop the deterioration. Until and unless, we are going downhill backward.
Report thisBy bilejones, May 15, 2012 at 5:50 pm Link to this comment
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Has anybody, anywhere, at any time found documented proof of “coathanger abortions”.
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