Reply #122: Since I Was The First Out of the Gate

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I can see how it could be read as "it must suck for women who don't want to be pregnant to find out they are pregnant," but if that is what was meant, it wasn't clear in the wording used. In fact, when I reread it just now, it took work to see it as that instead of no doubt well-meant handwringing, but handwringing nonetheless.

While not speaking of DNR in particular, it does seem as though nowadays some no doubt well-meaning people want to feel bad about abortions of choice that occur in the first trimester, and imagine that such an abortion is a traumatic experience. While fighting the hoarde of ill-intentioned protesters to get into a clinic may indeed be traumatic, I wonder why some are trying to ascribe an emotion to a medical procedure when the majority of women who have the procedure do not.