Column: In defense of late abortions for fetal abnormalities
June 5th, 2009‘Dr. Tiller understood women’s suffering’
Writing in the Toronto Star, columnist Antonia Zerbisias says George Tiller performed an essential service for women who are diagnosed with grave fetal abnormalities. His murderer, she says, was part of a “huge misogynist and Christian fundamentalist conspiracy” that seeks to control women. An excerpt:
Picture going for your 20-week ultrasound, all excited to learn if you’re going to paint the nursery pink or blue, and a grim-faced technician offers no congratulations.
… I know I would not want to rattle around for months with my dead dreams weighing heavily inside me, especially if continuing to carry them would destroy my chance of having children.
Would you?
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