Would you assist in abortions?

fergus51 · Apr 14, 2004

Men and women are not the same. Until a man can be used as an incubator, he won't have any say over abortion.

allnurses Guide · Apr 14, 2004

Men and women are not the same. Until a man can be used as an incubator, he won't have any say over abortion.

Which is why I talk to my sons about their choices or lack of choices . . . . keeping their pants zipped might be a good idea all the way around. :chuckle

steph

fergus51 · Apr 14, 2004

Which is why I talk to my sons about their choices or lack of choices . . . . keeping their pants zipped might be a good idea all the way around. :chuckle
steph

I think that's probably true 90% of the time!!! Oh, why am I telling you, a fellow OB RN? You know what I am talking about:) Too many people give little to no thought before creating children!

momx2 · Apr 14, 2004

no way no how. there are too many couples out there longing for babies. then there are those who are blessed to be able to carry a child, they spit them out like candy, and kill them. how awful. abortion is murder. :crying2:

colleen10 · Apr 14, 2004

Yes, I would assist in an abortion and/or provide pre / post abortive care and counseling to a woman.

I don't think I could work in an abortion facility doing it everyday but I would if I worked in an area of Women's care where they were performed on occassion or where I didn't have to assist with them daily.

I completely understand and respect people's views against abortion whether they be based on personal mores, religious beliefs or whatever other ideology. I can understand a nurse having an issue in assisting with one and if I worked with one such person, I don't think I would mind if I had to fill in for them. I would not think lessor of them, I just don't have the same beliefs about religion and god and murder and life, etc. as them.

Off topic a bit.....

The one thing I do have a problem with is a bunch of upper class, middle aged, white guys making laws about women's reproductive rights. Even though I am pro choice, even if a bunch of reproductive aged women were in the house and changed the laws to make abortion illegal, I would not agree with it but it would be easier to take because they are at least women.

Brandy Peavyhouse · Apr 20, 2004

No, I would not assist in an abortion under any circumstance. My mother tried to have a saline abortion with me, and for reasons only God knows, the abortion did not work and on April 28, 1979 I was born to this world. I am thankful to be alive and take nothing for granted. I don't consider myself a by-product of conception, a clump of tissue, or any other names given to the baby in the womb but a real live person who, although, I was an unwanted baby and spent many years in foster care, I deserved the chance to live just as much as any planned pregnancy. I am now an RN working in labor and delivery and I love to watch new life enter the world.

I am the child you have been discussing in these forums. My mother had no right to try and abort me, no matter her circumstances, no matter how inconvenient her pregnancy was. Although I have found it in my heart to forgive my mother I will never forget how she tried to take my life. Life is too precious to simply throw away and I can speak out against abortion from a baby's perspective. Any baby would choose life.

missmercy · Apr 20, 2004

[i am thankful to be alive and take nothing for granted. I don't consider myself a by-product of conception, a clump of tissue, or any other names given to the baby in the womb but a real live person who, although, I was an unwanted baby and spent many years in foster care, I deserved the chance to live just as much as any planned pregnancy. I am now an RN working in labor and delivery and I love to watch new life enter the world.

I am the child you have been discussing in these forums. My mother had no right to try and abort me, no matter her circumstances, no matter how inconvenient her pregnancy was. Although I have found it in my heart to forgive my mother I will never forget how she tried to take my life. Life is too precious to simply throw away and I can speak out against abortion from a baby's perspective. Any baby would choose life.

I am that child too -- with one exception:rather than attempt to kill me, my mom chose to carry me to term, deliver and give me up to people who so desperately wanted a child! I have never once felt anything bu compassion and gratefullness for her supremely unselfish act of love on my behalf! I echo your sentements with a heart felt HURRAY!!!!

Stephanie D · Apr 20, 2004

No I wouldn't

truern · Apr 20, 2004

I wouldn't want to assist in the actual procedure, but YES I'd give the most compassionate and comforting care possible afterwards.

Would you refuse to give care to an end-stage AIDS patient that contracted the virus through homosexual acts?? Would you refuse to take care of a drug overdose??

Personally, I think it's not a nurse's place to make judgements about a patient's life style, decisions, etc.

guest22304 · Apr 21, 2004

No, I don't think I could assist. I am with lots of others though, and could take care of the pt afterwards. What's up with nurses not giving blood transfusions? Odd. I know there is a religion that is against that, but doesn't that kind of come with the territory?

friedchicken · Apr 21, 2004

It might be risky because of the 'abortion people' I often see outside clinics

- but at this point I really need a job with medical insurance that will finally remove me from the classification of Low Income.

What do you think of that? I went to college and became a licensed professional yet I still make an average of $13 per hour.

I have seen cases in which it would have saved the mother's life. One death is better than two. I would work in such a place for $30/hr.

Rep · Apr 21, 2004

No! It's wrong.