Good. Leave your biases at home when acting in a professional capacity.
this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2025
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Well, at least it isn't total insanity here right now.
Doctors who refused to perform life saving surgery need to be kicked to the curb.
While I agree with the point you’re making, abortions are very rarely “life saving surgery”.
100% pro abortion here (to a limit of course) before people go off, let’s just not distort the truth as all it does is hurt our point.
I get what you’re saying.
To my mind, life saving is an emergancy situation which implies immediate action to keep someone alive.
This is definitely a surgery that impacts peoples lives, and one that has a time frame, but If can’t get an abortion at one clinic it’s unlikely you will just… die… before you organise an appointment somewhere else.
You can’t compare an abortion to.. say a premature birth. They are opposite ends of the spectrum. Both are important things that people need access to, but both aren’t life saving.
It sucks, it’s backward saying you won’t do it, but it’s quite literally the opposite of life saving.
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Life saving surgery in terms of an abortion is when the mother could die if she doesn’t have an abortion. The first link I found says that less than 2% of abortions are for the mothers physical health or life saving: https://www.hli.org/resources/why-women-abort/
Saying abortion is “life saving surgery” is pretty much a complete lie. Only in very, very rare circumstances is it true. Pro-abortion lobbyists and activists need to stop using it as an argument and focus more on how it can ruin a child and parents lives if it’s an unwanted pregnancy, because that is something that is plainly evident for all to see. The chances of anyone on here even knowing someone who has had to have a “life saving” abortion is next to nil.
When my wife and I were planning a family, we were sent to a fertility specialist at a hospital named after some saint or another. We asked all the questions we could and got lots of good advice. Then we innocently asked: what if the pregnancy is not viable? If there is a risk to my wife’s life, or we become aware that the baby would be born with a life-limiting issue?
The doctor got all clammed up and said we would have to seek advice from another hospital if that wound up being the case.
If my wife were at risk of death, or if our child would be born with their organs on the outside and half a brain with a life expectancy of a week, these self-righteous assholes would tell us to go elsewhere.
We did not return to that specialist. For all their preaching, they do not care about the lives of their patients and it shocks me that they can just decide that you don’t get to have healthcare because they think it’s a sin.
This should be required federally for any hospital or GP who receives Medicare funding. It's been over 3 years since the ABC reported on the extent of the problem and still nothing has been done.
How is blocking them on “moral grounds” even allowed in the first place when abortion is legal?
Have to appeal to religious nutters who (and by this I mean Christians, other relegions see no issue AFAIK) have lobby groups in parliament
Another example
Anti-abortion activist Joanna Howe has been banned from South Australia’s upper house for allegedly using “threatening” tactics towards politicians.
In another incident roughly a week earlier, Dr Howe sparked outrage by labelling prominent women– such as SA Greens leader Tammy Franks– as members of a “baby-killers club” on social media. Franks responded, saying the posts were intended to incite hatred.