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Date: 01 April 2005 11:54:59
Cycled past the hospital again today and saw a group of people with signs saying "Live and let live" and "Pray for mothers and their unborn children", standing outside the Women's Unit, which is where I went for the management of my miscarriage, i.e. to end my pregnancy because it was no longer viable but wasn't ending by itself. I was there on a Friday (I was also there on a Tuesday and a Wednesday but the Friday was when the main treatment took place), and I happen to know they are there on a Friday because the list of gynaecological clinics (available on the web) says which clinic is when. I was an inpatient on the gynae ward but it's the same building, you have to walk past them to go in.
Now leaving aside the whole issue of whether I agree with trying to persuade women not to have a termination, and whether standing outside the hospital with placards is an effective way to accomplish that, do these people not think that perhaps they are going to be seen by people who don't want to be there? That not everyone who has to end a pregnancy wants to do so? That perhaps they might upset people who very much want to have a baby? People whose baby has died, or whose baby can't live, or who will die themselves if the pregnancy carries on?
Nah, didn't think so.
I would really like to find out who these people are, to give them a piece of my mind.