tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654455663519806899.post6163432029449840781..comments2023-11-09T02:43:59.293-08:00Comments on Christian Medical Comment: Behind the headlines: information and misinformation in pregnancy counsellingPeter Saundershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17222354018504253042noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654455663519806899.post-48978715122790306682014-02-12T01:38:49.157-08:002014-02-12T01:38:49.157-08:00Most people seeking abortions have been using cont...Most people seeking abortions have been using contraception. Either they've made a mistake (like forgetting a pill) or something's snapped. A close friend of mine had a failed sterilization operation. She loves her 'surprise' kid and wouldn't be without him, but it was stressful at the time. Most families have an unplanned kid at some point. Contraception can help us plan our families, but it doesn't guarantee anything.<br /><br />The real scandal isn't that people are having unprotected sex, it's that schools and family planning clinics don't warn people that things can go wrong when they tell people to go off an enjoy 'safe' sex. A few will come straight out with it and say 'women need abortion for when contraception fails' - but few are that honest.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654455663519806899.post-48196991976471075222014-02-11T15:48:13.385-08:002014-02-11T15:48:13.385-08:00There is no need for staff, who are apt to be unde...There is no need for staff, who are apt to be under-trained and over-zealous, to impart orally information on the health risks of abortion, rather than handing out leaflets that cite the evidence of the real health risks that Peter has cited above. To deliver the health warnings orally is to risk human error blunders being filmed by mystery shoppers researching for hyped-up press exposés like this one.<br /><br />The way to stop almost all client mothers aborting is to ask them to complete a simple questionnaire that establishes right at the beginning of the pregnancy counselling session whether or not the medical criteria for a legal abortion are met. They almost never will be.<br /><br />The only way for a mother to meet the legal grounds for an abortion, if she does not meet the medical criteria (which very few do), is for her to shop around for a pair of doctors who are willing to lie, saying that she *does* meet the medical criteria, pretending to be saying this "in good faith". These doctors won't get prosecuted for their dishonesty, and the paperwork will be created that makes the abortions perfectly legal, despite the dishonest medical opinions on which they are all based.<br /><br />In the aftermath of the assessment of whether the medical criteria for an abortion are met, alternatives can be discussed.<br /><br />Secondly, much can be accomplished simply by avoiding euphemism, and showing the client mothers pictures of babies at the stage of pregnancy at which the mothers are presenting requesting counselling on the options available to them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654455663519806899.post-6311655820850348242014-02-11T08:59:19.146-08:002014-02-11T08:59:19.146-08:00Isn't is terrible that any organisation that i...Isn't is terrible that any organisation that is there to 'counsel' women about abortion has a financial advantage if they choose to abort!!!!! Surely counselling should be independent of financial interference and the counsellor should be paid a bonus for talking a woman out of an abortion. Abortion is dangerous. Abortion is wrong and the dangers enumerated here need to be told to women when the are are considering this terrible and selfish act. With all the contraception advice available in this country no-one should ever need an abortion IF they think before they act. To quote a teacher I know 'If you are not prepared to get pregnant don't have sex'Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15676038967517819620noreply@blogger.com