Guardian on Abortion
Oct. 27th, 2006 07:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylTodays Guardian featured a good article by Zoe Williams on the abortion debate. Also worth reading are Suzanne Goldenberg's piece on the situation in America and the companion interviews with women who've had abortions in the UK.
I was particularly struck by the lack of compassion with which some of the people were treated by their doctors. Surely, if you're a doctor and you are anti-abortion because you think that fetuses are human beings and that we owe them a duty of care as potential human beings, you have a greater duty to the actual human being in your surgery to treat them decently, regardless of what you think of their moral choice. After all, didn't someone once say, "The quality of mercy is not strain'd; ut droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: it blesseth him that gives and him that takes."
I was particularly struck by the lack of compassion with which some of the people were treated by their doctors. Surely, if you're a doctor and you are anti-abortion because you think that fetuses are human beings and that we owe them a duty of care as potential human beings, you have a greater duty to the actual human being in your surgery to treat them decently, regardless of what you think of their moral choice. After all, didn't someone once say, "The quality of mercy is not strain'd; ut droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: it blesseth him that gives and him that takes."
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Date: 2006-10-27 09:45 pm (UTC)