What I wish for Wendy Wright of Concerned Women for America

[Fridays Child]

I wish that she never has to experience the failure of multiple major organs, due to late term eclampsia. Because, if she does, she will die from a condition that the people she leaves her medical decisions to have said cannot happen:

"The Supreme Court has now agreed with the majority of Americans, and Congress, and the president, that this procedure is too gruesome, and inhumane, and never medically necessary to be allowed." -Wendy Wright, April 18, 2007

I would like to ask Wendy this: If the majority of Americans, and Congress, and the president, were all to agree that it is never medically necessary to treat you, or someone you love, for catastrophic injuries due to a car accident, will you go along with that, too, no matter what an emergency room physician might have to say about it?

Folks, if you didn't think we could ever enter an era where doctors were no longer allowed to use their training and experience to diagnose and treat us, where those decisions would be made by politicians and judges, all I can say is welcome to the special hell that some women in this country will now experience, right before they and their babies die.

I wonder what will be the next condition doctors won't be allowed to treat.

[MadMaddie]

1. STDs maybe....

We have to get these religious nuts out of our government...European countries have figured out church and state don't mix....and we are experiencing why....

[Fridays Child]

3. Maybe, but a lot of republicks get them...

...so STDs are probably safe. I do worry, though, that if republicks ever decide that all men must rape a virgin or their dicks will fall off, our daughters are in deep dookey.

[musette_sf]

2. K&R

and then imagine that the ER physician is the only doc available, s/he is a Jehovah's Witness, and s/he is morally opposed to giving Ms. Wright or her loved one the blood transfusion needed to survive the injury and surgeries.

[MadMaddie]

4. The Handmaidens Tale anyone..

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides/handmaids_tale.asp

[Fridays Child]

5. I'm afraid that it's not that far-fetched.

:scared: