Or so says Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill), saying that anti-abortion laws don't need to include exceptions for the life or health of the mother because "modern technology and science" render such exceptions obsolete. "Absolutely"
Um … what?
"Because, y'know, pregnancy and birthing is always so easy, and nothing ever goes wrong with gestation, and even if it does then Dr. McCoy can wave his tricorder and have Scotty use the transporter to move the fetus into a life support tube easy-peasey because it's all about science! And science is great when it comes to removing the need for abortion, but don't listen to it about climate change and evolution and other stuff. Oh, and magical medical technology that avoids any need of abortion doesn't require insurance, either, especially not Medicare, which is a good thing, because we have to cut it."
(That last paragraph is not a real quote, but is the only thing within waving distance of a justification for this kind of doltery.)
Amazingly enough, with such progressive and insightful positions, Walsh is actually behind his opponent, Tammy Duckworth, in the polls. Maybe there's yet home for humanity.
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Rep. Joe Walsh: Abortion never saves mom's life – Kevin Robillard
Abortion bans don’t need exceptions for the life of the mother because of “modern technology and science,” Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) said Thursday. “With modern technology and science, you can’t find on…
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I wonder if he is one of those same people that say science is bunk because of evolution…
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.STA.MMRT
Maternal mortality per 100,000 LIVE BIRTHS in the US is 21. That's .02% However, if you go to a country like Uganda which has state clinics for medicine but strong cultural prohibitions on abortion, that goes up to 310 per live birth or .3%
If you go to a country like Italy that has religious but really no cultural barriers and state medicine, the number of deaths per live birth goes down to 4, about 1/7 of our rate of maternal mortality — because they care about their mothers. Sweden also comes in at 4, but I wanted to point out Italy because you'd expect somewhere like Sweden — damn socialists — to come in so low. But Italy puts maternal health first.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Italy
Not one case, huh?
Well, obviously the bishop failed to point that particular thing out — that not only was it a morally unsupportable position, but unnecessary, too. (Yeesh.)