"Timothy J. Butler" <tbutler@ford.com> (discussing the right to select a
teacher)

>Ah, but I won't take my wife to a pro-abortion doctor for prenatal care. That's
>my choice, and I am free to do so.

Hi,
A curious comment. Should your wife have any say in this decision?

But my main reaction is that this is the opposite of a common attitude
many years ago when I was young (and before Roe v Wade). Then it was "well
known" that Catholic hospitals and doctors would, in case of complications,
make every effort to save the child. If the wife could be saved also, fine.
But the child was the FIRST concern.

So many men (and it was usually the husband who decided in those days)
would seek out a doctor that put the life of the WIFE first. (And
most mothers were also wives in those days). And this was usually a
doctor who had a favorable view of abortion.

Even today the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that about 
half a million women die from complications of childbirth each year 
In those days complications and death were much more common. 

For some data on the relative risk of childbirth and abortion, see 
my web page file:

http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/4834/abort.htm

Since this has strayed from the original topic, I will crosspost it
to talk.abortion


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