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In reply to the discussion: Walker calls abortion to save woman’s life a ‘false choice’ [View all]TexasBushwhacker
(20,043 posts)60. Rick Santorum's wife came close to dying
because of an infection during the 19th week of her pregnancy. Had she not CHOSEN to let her doctors induce labor to deliver her non-viable fetus, she would have left Rick a widower and her children motherless. And had she died, of course the fetus would have died as well.
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Did these folks get hit in the head and think they woke up in '50's, would be a good retort.
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#5
My daughter had to have an emergency abortion to keep from bleeding to death
dem in texas
Aug 2015
#16
There speaks an idiot who has never suffered from Pre-eclampsia. Yes, a-hole, we can die of it.
Shrike47
Aug 2015
#9
I didn't mean to be dismissive of your post, I realize it may have come off that way.
Lars39
Aug 2015
#46
I suppose keeping the baby alive and letting the mother die is a false choice too.
mwooldri
Aug 2015
#47
Still...it does raise an interesting point. Let's suppose abortion is criminalized and an exception
StevieM
Aug 2015
#64
My daughter developed HELLP Syndrome in later pregnancy and had to have a C section.
CTyankee
Aug 2015
#69