http://kmareka.com/2009/12/27/on-demand/ Progressive Views from a Nurse and a Social Worker Wed, 30 May 2012 02:31:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://kmareka.com/2009/12/27/on-demand/#comment-7155 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:35:07 +0000 http://kmareka.com/?p=5785#comment-7155 In nursing I see every day how families and friends hold things together in a way that outsiders never could. ‘Trust Women’ the President said, and we should. Women and the people they trust to consult with are the ones who will bear the responsibility, and should have the choice. People have short memories, and dangerous, illegal abortions and forced adoptions are forgotten, though many older women have survived that.
However, if the people who claim the label, ‘pro-life’ want to honestly and openly operate agencies that give aid to women who want to continue a pregnancy and need help I’m with them. They can start by petitioning the Governor to stop cutting the safety net from under the poorest Rhode Islanders.

]]> http://kmareka.com/2009/12/27/on-demand/#comment-7149 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:35:36 +0000 http://kmareka.com/?p=5785#comment-7149 I find it pathetic that 37 years after roe v. wade we are revisiting this again. I guess this shows just how close religion is to politics and that mostly men are still at the birth of the debate. This is particularly disturbing to me because it’s a womens right and while I am fully aware of those that abuse the needs to make this a ritual to have them performed, they outweigh the cost to raise these welfare mothers. Not only that, but there is a burden that is bestowed on them and then depression and then what for the child??? Is the gov’t v. church there to rear the chid and hold the hand of the teenager or mid-aged mom that is FORCED to have it? I sit and look and numbers and it makes no sense…or does someone know a good sound argument that I could grasp a little better….

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