Albuquerque late term abortion ban DEFEATED

[Warpy]

Defeated 55% to 45%, 96% of precincts in.

http://livewire.koat.com/Event/Albuquerque_late-term_abortion_ban_special_election_results_and_updates

Thank you to all the campaigners against this ban going door to door over the last few weeks, you did it!

[SheilaT]

1. I am so glad.

I live in New Mexico, and was horrified that this would be on the ballot.

Even if I am well beyond the age of ever needing such a thing.

[Warpy]

2. Apparently the fetus fetishists are getting it on the ballot in small towns

but since the big hospitals and the main clinic is here, they'll be voting on absolutely nothing.

I haven't seen many late term abortions since I moved here, but they were all medically necessary because the woman would have died along with the holy fetus had she been forbidden a termination.

I wish these ignorant dirtbags could see the stuff I have, but knowing a few of them better than I ever wanted to, I know they'd just keep blaming the woman for getting pregnant and being too sick to carry to term.

[SheilaT]

3. Alas, I live in Santa Fe and I actually

work at Christus St. Vincent Hospital. At the information desk, so if you ever come by there between 4pm and 8pm on a week night, that will by my smiling face you see.

Anyway, Christus is a Catholic group, which means no abortions, which means I do have a certain ethical problem working there. Since I am personally well past the age of possibly needing such a service, I honestly have no idea where in this city a woman might go to who need such a thing.

And the idea that late term abortions only happen because a woman makes a last minute decision not to have the baby is beyond offensive.

Both times that I was pregnant I was very sensitive to things that might have made me want to terminate the pregnancy. I had a certain amount of genetic testing. The second time I was an older mother, 38, and my OB was quite nervous that I didn't test for Down's syndrome. Personally, I felt that was something I could live with, but I would NEVER judge another woman who could not live with that. In the end, I had completely normal children. Well, the first one turns out to have Asperger's Syndrome, but honestly, nothing actually serious.

How can I, or you, or anyone else, tell a particular woman (along with her partner) that she absolutely MUST have this particular child. Excuse me? What I can deal with may well be completely different from what you can deal with. You must be the one to make your own decisions.

I really hate people who think they can decide stuff for me.

[Warpy]

5. No Planned Parenthood? Or is it just a basic clinic

that refers all surgical cases, including abortion, down here to the big city?

I live about a mile from Planned Parenthood here and I'm always amazed by how grim faced the protestors are. If my religion made me that miserable, I'd dump it. Oh wait, I did.

I'm delighted I'm past it now, but I don't want any young woman to have a friend die of a botched illegal abortion like I did.

Bottom line: antiabortion laws kill women. That's what we need to focus on since the opposition erases the woman the second they start to rant.

[SheilaT]

6. I honestly have no idea if there is any place

in Santa Fe to get an abortion. It's not something I have any connection to at my age, 65.

[madamesilverspurs]

4. Very proud of Albuquerque!

I really do need to get back there more than once every ten years for a reunion...