03-04-2009, 04:08 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-04-2009, 08:50 AM by Swiss Mercenary.)
I found this passage (Sorry, can't cite it to any professionals, but the basic medicine checks out) to be a lovely reality check.
"I don't think you realise quite how destructive even perfectly normal pregancies can be. Discomfort and pain doesn't quite cut it. Humans are really not optimised for giving birth.
Imagine if you would develop a huge tumour that stretches your all your belly skin, pancakes your abdominal muscles and screws up your back, get osteoporosis as the tumour sucked all the calcium out of your skeleton, get bone softening (seriously?) so the tumour can more easily squeeze its way out of your pelvis, probably doing a decent job of mangling your genitals on the way, and then you'd also have to pay to have the tumour maintained on a heart-lung machine for the rest of your life... You'd probably be all over taking a pill to prevent all that."
It boggles my mind to think that there are people who consider putting another human being through that, against their will, to be some sort of moral high ground.
I wonder what would happen if an atheist GP would refuse to provide his services to Christians, without referring them to another doctor... I bet that'd be quite the uproar about him letting his personal beliefs affect the quality of care that he provides for his patients.
"I don't think you realise quite how destructive even perfectly normal pregancies can be. Discomfort and pain doesn't quite cut it. Humans are really not optimised for giving birth.
Imagine if you would develop a huge tumour that stretches your all your belly skin, pancakes your abdominal muscles and screws up your back, get osteoporosis as the tumour sucked all the calcium out of your skeleton, get bone softening (seriously?) so the tumour can more easily squeeze its way out of your pelvis, probably doing a decent job of mangling your genitals on the way, and then you'd also have to pay to have the tumour maintained on a heart-lung machine for the rest of your life... You'd probably be all over taking a pill to prevent all that."
It boggles my mind to think that there are people who consider putting another human being through that, against their will, to be some sort of moral high ground.
I wonder what would happen if an atheist GP would refuse to provide his services to Christians, without referring them to another doctor... I bet that'd be quite the uproar about him letting his personal beliefs affect the quality of care that he provides for his patients.