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A medical assistant told a jury Tuesday that she snipped the spines of at least 10 babies during unorthodox abortions at a West Philadelphia clinic, at the direction of the clinic's owner.
And she said Dr. Kermit Gosnell and another employee did the same to terminate pregnancies.
(same link)
She has been in prison since early 2011, when Philadelphia prosecutors arrested Gosnell, his third wife, Pearl, and eight other employees. Most of them have pleaded guilty and are expected to testify.
Fear can be a powerful motivator.
Sadly, if its legal and part of the job description, you can't do much. Being an medical assistant and refusing to do the duty because "its unethical" will not support them because abortion is acceptable.
Originally posted by silo13
reply to post by HappyWarrior
Fear can be a powerful motivator.
That seriously boggles the mind, that words or the fear or repercussions from those words can cause someone to commit murder against a child (or anyone for that matter).
Originally posted by luciddream
reply to post by silo13
In a good day, the boss will tell you to do something else, on a bad day he will "let you go".... I do not think most lab assistant would do the work happily... but i can;t say for some... if they are used to doing such things...
My friend worked at a drug test lab.. he used to say how the "volunteers" that come be guinea pig made him feel disgusted to be there. Not the volunteers themselves, but what they go thru... he said some of them just drool, and groan and drop "dead"... etc under the drug effects... the way he was telling me this made me disgusted, but he had to do it in order to get credit for his bachelors(he didn't choose the job, the university placed him there).
Originally posted by SeenAlot
I'm pro-choice. I'd work at a clinic. You couldn't get me to do this work. No only would would a boss NOT find the work complete, but recieve a considerable amount of Verbal abuse on my way out the door. I will not play Igor to your Dr. Frankenstein.
I find it no less disgusting to kill a baby inside the womb or outside the womb. Anyone who thinks there is a difference between the two is fooling themselves.
Originally posted by Exitt
Originally posted by SeenAlot
I'm pro-choice. I'd work at a clinic. You couldn't get me to do this work. No only would would a boss NOT find the work complete, but recieve a considerable amount of Verbal abuse on my way out the door. I will not play Igor to your Dr. Frankenstein.
You are contradicting yourself a little. In many cases of late abortion, children are legally being stabbed with scissors in utero, or their necks are snapped just before the rest of the body comes out. That is legal late abortion for you. Read up.
I am pro-choice as well but let's not kid ourselves. Not every abortion is a lump of cells of a 4 week gestational embryo.
I could never work at such a clinic and if i was in power 12 weeks would be the legal limit.
Originally posted by silo13
reply to post by jjkenobi
I find it no less disgusting to kill a baby inside the womb or outside the womb. Anyone who thinks there is a difference between the two is fooling themselves.
Thank you for your opinion. I might not agree but in saying that? I'm trying steer the thread in another direction - focusing on what people will do, or not do in the name of surrendering to authority figures regardless of our own moral standards.
peace
Originally posted by Blarneystoner
what I hear is; 'I had unprotected sex, now I'm pregnant and want to use abortion as birth control because I don't want to live with the concequences of my actions.'
Originally posted by Blarneystoner
...and why twelve weeks?
Why would life be any less valued during the initial twelve weeks?