My Soapbox… Caution: Its Graphic!!

So my boyfriend and I got into this conversation about abortion (it’s a very controversial, I know) and he has some very different views than I do. He's super duper liberal and he calls himself a "progressive." Sometimes being progressive isn't actually progress at all in my eyes. He is all for abortion and I can't even fathom the thought. Anyway, I was sitting here tonight, thinking about the subject after I saw an anti-abortion promotion on Facebook. This enticed me to look up more on the subject. While searching, I found a website that was very graphic in the description of the possible ways of abortion along with pictures of the aborted fetuses.

The first picture is of a 9 week gestation aborted fetus. It has eyes, fingers, toes, its eye lids are sensitive to touch, and it will bend fingers around an object placed in their palm. You can even see the ribs and spinal cord. Looks like a baby to me… not just a bunch of cells.

The way that abortions are done is so violent as well. Can you imagine the kind of pain these kids feel? Can you imagine being in the womb and seeing/feeling this foreign object coming towards you and how scared you would be?

One of the methods is vacuum aspiration where they stick tube with a sharp blade at the end and cut the fetus up and vacuum it out.

Dilation and Curettage (D&C) is another method. In this method the cervix is dilated and the fetus is chopped up and removed.

In WWII the Nazis developed salt poisoning for use in concentration camps. A syringe of a super salty substance in injected into the uterus and into the amniotic sac where the fetus SWALLOWS and BREATHES in the highly salted amniotic fluid and dies within an hour. The mother delivers the dead fetus within 1-2 days.

There is also the hysterectomy abortion where the umbilical cord is cut in utero and the fetus is allowed to die before it is removed with the same procedure as a caesarian section. This is used for babies that are late term or within the 3 trimester.

Dilation and Extraction is another method. In this method the cervix is dilated and the fetus is grabbed by the feet and dragged out. Just before the head comes out the spinal cord is severed and the brains are vacuumed out, collapsing the skull allowing the head to be removed easily. This is also known as a partial birth abortion.

Another, and perhaps the worst, is the live birth abortion. With the live birth abortion labor is induced and the mother gives birth to a LIVE child. The child is then taken to the dirty utility room at a hospital and left to die. How cruel can you be, really?

This is a video from a nurse that worked at a hospital in Illinios and assisted with live birth abortions. She speaks out about the barbaric pratices. The clip is actually an Anti-Obama campaign, but that's not what I'm using it for... simply to tell the story of these poor, defenseless children.

I really don't understand how this isn't murder. And considering all of the people that can't have children and want them, why not give the unwanted child up for adoption? In my opinion, unless child bearing or pregnancy is a danger to the mother's life, no life should be aborted. I don't know how much good my rant will do, if any, but it makes me feel better. I also know that, as a healthcare professional, I would most definitely NOT feel comfortable assisting in these procedures!

End rant.

Just a thought...

Today Ryan had me take the Meyers-Briggs personality test. I turned out to be an INTJ. Traits of an INTJ include:

·         Able to absorb extremely complex theoretical and complex material

·         Driven to create order and structure from theoretical abstractions

·         Supreme strategists

·         Future-oriented

·         See the global, "big picture"

·         Strong insights and intuitions, which they trust implicitly

·         Value their own opinions over others

·         Love difficult theoretical challenges

·         Bored when dealing with mundane routine

·         Value knowledge and efficiency

·         Have no patience with inefficiency and confusion

·         Have very high standards for performance, which they apply to themselves most strongly

·         Reserved and detached from others

·         Calm, collected and analytical

·         Extremely logical and rational

·         Original and independent

·         Natural leaders, but will follow those they can fully support

·         Creative, ingenious, innovative, and resourceful

·         Work best alone, and prefer to work alone

Possible Career Path for the INTJ:

·         Scientist

·         Engineers

·         Professor/Teachers

·         Medical Doctor or Dentist

·         Corporate Strategists and Organizational Builders

·         Business Administrator or Manager

·         Military Leader

·         Lawyer or Attorney

·         Judges

·         Computer Programmer or Systems Analyst

This fits me to a tee. Kind of scary, actually. I also got me thinking about my career choice. For a long time, I haven't necessarily been as happy as I thought I would be with my choice to become a nurse. I enjoy the analytical side more than the nurturing side; meaning that I enjoy figuring out what is wrong and putting the pieces together more than I do being a cheerleader and "emotional support" that the typical nurse does. Not to mention the politics and mud-slinging that goes along with it. I thought I would really enjoy nursing, especially being a floor nurse, but it has turned out to not be the case. I feel that I should have bitten bullet and become a doctor. I would just now be getting done with school and be up to my ears in debt, but think it would suit me better. So, for now I am compromising. I have decided to go back to school and become a CRNP (Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner). I will be able to do a lot of the same things a doctor can do outside of performing surgery and writing prescriptions for narcotics. Maybe later I can go back and do the doctor thing. Of course, this will be after 5 chemistry classes (including biochemistry) and 2 physics classes (w/o calculus of course). I think I would enjoy the forensic side more than anything else. If I were to go back to Med School I would like to be a Forensic Pathologist and do autopsies to figure out how people died. I guess I'm twisted like that... :) AND Dr. G Medical Examiner is one of my all time favorite shows!