The late Dr. George Tiller often wore a button that stated, “Trust Women” something his opponents can’t seem to do. Tiller often performed late term abortions, these are the kind the pro-liers like to say are about a woman waking up one day and deciding, “meh, pregnancy isn’t for me” when in reality is far more heartbreaking,
Susan Hill, President of the National Women’s Health Foundation, who knew Dr. Tiller for over two decades and referred girls and women to his clinic, said in a phone interview, “We always sent the really tragic cases to Tiller.” Those included women diagnosed with cancer who needed abortions to qualify for chemotherapy, women who learned late in their pregnancies that their wanted babies had fatal illnesses, and rape victims so young they didn’t realize they were pregnant for months. “We sent him 11-year-olds, 12-year-olds who were way too far along for anybody [else] to see,” said Hill. “Eleven-year-olds don’t tell anybody. Sometimes they don’t even know they’ve had a period.”
Trust Women.
If you trust in someone or something, you believe strongly in them, and do not doubt their powers or their good intentions
Tiller trusted that a woman could make a decision to save her life, that she could make a decision to spare her child from a short painful life, and that she could make a decision not to have her young child’s body ripped apart by a forced pregnancy.
By contrast Control
When a government controls prices, wages, or the activity of a particular group, it uses its power to restrict them
Let’s look at those who would control women.
The Catholic Church doesn’t trust women or even believe that crimes against little girls are very serious, unlike saving their lives through abortion which is very serious indeed – Archbishop Sobrinho commenting the case of a pregnant nine year old,
“He committed a serious crime, but . . . there are many other serious sins. Abortion is more serious”
A law that would require personal information about a women who receives an abortion in the state of Oklahoma to be posted on the internet for public view, is a debate that was post-poned Friday until a further hearing to be held Feb. 19.
The law would allow private information to be posted online about a woman receiving an abortion collected from a 10 page survey required to be filled out by each patient.
Trust Women.
Trust that I was born with a uterus and I’ll know what to do if a pregnancy starts to grow inside it. Trust that I’m a grown-ass woman able to make the big decisions. Trust that life’s complicated and there’s lots of gray areas that an outside onlooker (or protester or Bill O’Reilly) may not fully see or even attempt to see.
Marvellous piece of writing. Really well done. There should be some kind of prize for this.
The world is so full of bigots that scream and denounce from all angles and then there are those bigots and that like to push their worldview upon society as a whole through intimidation, terror tactics and scripture. I'd say to hell with the whole lot of them if I believed in hell and if I were not a man of peace.
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