Reply #3: One of the things I did to get through college was work as a ER Tech... [View All]

[Hepburn]

...and this was long before Roe v. Wade.

Patients leaving the hospital could exit via the door where the ambulances came in. One day, while I was sitting in the ER and charting, I saw someone I knew ~~ one of the members of the ritzy founding families of the little city where I lived and grew up ~~ pushing her daughter, about age 15 years, in a wheelchair towards that exit door. The kid had on all the pink young teen clothing and in her arms she was holding a HUGE stuffed rabbit.

So I turned to the ER nurse sitting next to me and asked what the hell had happened to so-and-so's kid. The nurse rolled her eyes and, yeah, you guessed it, an abortion that went down as something else. So, I took a look at the hospital role and, yep, right there was the child's name and her admitting MD was a very socially prominent MD who lived in town and the admitting DX was some blub about abdominal pain, source unknown ~~ I cannot recall the exact word, it's been over 40 years, but it sure as hell did not say D&C or anything even remotely related to the female organs.

Here, I thought things had changed with Roe v. Wade and, well, it looks like some things NEVER change. The wealthy will always be able to find safe, legal but expensive ways to solve their "medical" problems.