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More than the sum of our parts

(A response to freethinker)
Just a note….to jump into the fray. Dr Unamuno never brought up the “soul” regarding abortion. You did. (Read the blog) He merely explained, accurately that life can be determined both on a biological and clinical level. Does a child in the womb have a soul? At what point does “life” begin? These questions have been asked since the beginning. By the way, there is no “soul bank”. Do you understand any Christian theology? Even as a physician, I seldom use the term “fetus” as it attempts to de-humanize the child in the womb…who could very possibly be a patient. Mary was with child…not with fetus. When I am with a pregnant patient, I might ask, “How is the baby?” Not how is the tissue? What I do know is that we are more than the sum of our parts. We are more than mere electrical impulses and active synapses. Every scientist and physician that I have ever worked with has believed that. They may not be able to define it. They may not attach it to a religious dogma or terminology. But I have looked in the eyes of those who left this earth…..and saw that point when that “light” of life left their eyes. Don’t you see conflict when on one side of the hospital, surgeons are working to repair the heart of a tiny human patient in the womb of his/or her mother. And on the other side of the hospital a child with the same viability is having its brain sucked out until the scull collapses so the “doctor” can pull the body of the baby out of the womb? Truly, “All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” We know now from the McCorvey testimony that she was not “raped” in the Wade vs Roe landmark case. We also know that the “statistics” regarding abortions prior to 1973 were contrived by those, whose agenda was to change the moral direction of a nation through judicial review as apposed to the consent of the governed. Abortion was actually was not that prevalent. There was a greater sence of individual responsibility and maturity when dealing with consequences of individual actions. But with the supreme courts decision the doors were opened to use abortion as a means of birth control. No responsibility, no accountability. A thousand abortions in the US in 1973.....jumped to over 2 million last year. When I deliver a child into the world, they are both my patients and I do everything in my power to bring them through this “miracle” healthy and whole. I have lost both mothers…and new born babies. Some thing that abortion is "victimless". Besides the termination of the childs life, look at thethe consequences in the lives of thousands of women every year. Sterilization, hemorrhage, endotoxic shock ..as well a double the risk of later breast cancer, 2.3 relative risk of cervival cancer, uterine perforation, cervial lacerations, placenta previa, later complication in labor, ectopic pregnancy, pelvic inflammatory diease and endometritis....and many more dangerous consequences. I mean if your daughter wants an aspirn in school, the parents have to not only be notified but give written permission....but if your daughter enters into a legal agreement with a "physican" and has an abortion, the parent will only be notified ...to identify the body of their daughter at the morgue. Your comments regarding this topic are truly without merit. You again see the world through the lens of ignorance, religious bias and lack of compassion.