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[identity profile] affablestranger.livejournal.com 2010-07-01 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Honestly, I do not get why some people are "for" abortion so aggressively. What causes that? Is it driven by evil? (Please note that I don't often use the word "evil", and so it's not the case I'm asking glibly. I really just do not understand at all the mad drive some seem to have about abortion.)

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[identity profile] fpb.livejournal.com 2010-07-01 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
In the case of the RCOG, it is brute self-interest.

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[identity profile] elegant-bonfire.livejournal.com 2010-07-01 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Honestly, do doctors over there really make that much money doing abortions?
There are fewer and fewer doctors over here that will work in abortion clinics anymore. Even the docs that have nothing personal against abortions say it doesn't pay well and they don't like to have to deal with the protestors.

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[identity profile] fpb.livejournal.com 2010-07-02 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
There are no protesters in England, but it is true that there are less and less doctors interested in the work - people don't become medics to rip human bodies to bits with suction devices. But the ones who do dominate the institutions, and are correspondingly obstinate and fanatical - as this insult to the public's intelligence shows.

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[identity profile] elegant-bonfire.livejournal.com 2010-07-03 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm curious--are there no protestors in England because there are no big right to life groups over there, or is protesting banned for some reason?

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[identity profile] fpb.livejournal.com 2010-07-03 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Because there aren't enough Christians and those who are are terrified. The majority of Britons simply would not understand prayer sessions.

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[identity profile] elegant-bonfire.livejournal.com 2010-07-03 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
That's really kinda sad...

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[identity profile] affablestranger.livejournal.com 2010-07-02 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
I reckon I don't understand what kind of self-interest there is in abortion, other than maybe some kind of possible political interest... and even that's a stretch for me to conceive.

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[identity profile] fpb.livejournal.com 2010-07-02 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
Where British instititutions are concerned, you have to imagine permanent insanity fuelled by ever-fostered groupthink. I know that it is not easy for a sane man to imagine.