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Teach Your Children
RECEIVED Wed., April 22, 2015
Dear Editor,
In reading "Millions for Propaganda … Nothing for Women's Health," [News, April 17], I have a sick feeling that people just do not remember WHY abortion clinics came about in the first place.
In the Sixties there were no choices in all of Texas, and wealthy parents would take their young ladies somewhere out of state to have clean abortions performed in hospitals. I heard two of my college girl friends recall their stories of their local “coat hanger” abortions that their Christian parents forced them to have. Taken to some shabby, dirty hotel room, they endured the exploration of a long wire inserted into the vagina searching for the opening to get into the uterus and stab the embryo. One sustained such wounding she would never have a child. The other received a puncture wound which later was operated on and so she was able to have a son later on. Just one, though. Their Christian parents were afraid of shame and judgments from their community. So we go back to that once the last clinic is closed.
With our health care system supporting healthy options and able to help people in the right way, why does anyone send women back to the dirty hotels and backroom operations where they wave wires at your womb?
For closing clinic doors will never stop abortions. Education stops them. Teach young people about how to completely take care of their sexuality, before they are active sexually. Puberty begins at 10, 11 years of age, so that is the time to be honest and intelligent.
In reading "Millions for Propaganda … Nothing for Women's Health," [News, April 17], I have a sick feeling that people just do not remember WHY abortion clinics came about in the first place.
In the Sixties there were no choices in all of Texas, and wealthy parents would take their young ladies somewhere out of state to have clean abortions performed in hospitals. I heard two of my college girl friends recall their stories of their local “coat hanger” abortions that their Christian parents forced them to have. Taken to some shabby, dirty hotel room, they endured the exploration of a long wire inserted into the vagina searching for the opening to get into the uterus and stab the embryo. One sustained such wounding she would never have a child. The other received a puncture wound which later was operated on and so she was able to have a son later on. Just one, though. Their Christian parents were afraid of shame and judgments from their community. So we go back to that once the last clinic is closed.
With our health care system supporting healthy options and able to help people in the right way, why does anyone send women back to the dirty hotels and backroom operations where they wave wires at your womb?
For closing clinic doors will never stop abortions. Education stops them. Teach young people about how to completely take care of their sexuality, before they are active sexually. Puberty begins at 10, 11 years of age, so that is the time to be honest and intelligent.
Carolyn Thompson