Someone explain something to me about Ron Paul
On Rep. Paul's campaign website he claims to be an OB/GYN who delivered over 4000 babies and never found it necessary to use abortion to save the life of the mother.
Ectopic pregnancy (embryo lodging itself in a fallopian tube, where it won't fit) is a life-threatening condition that's treated by abortion. The American Association of Family Physicians reports the incidence of ectopic pregnancy is 20 per 1000 pregnancies. If Paul's practice was average, he should have seen about 80 of these.
Then add in another few for things like Mrs. Santorum had, and over his career he probably handled 100 cases of pregnancies that needed to be terminated to preserve the life and/or health of the mother. How, exactly, did he take care of these women?
Did he perform the procedure and call it something else?
Refer the patient to a doctor who would do his job?
Or did he attempt to pray away the problem until the mother, in pain and scared for her life, went to a competent OB/GYN?
If you're an OB/GYN you are going to have to perform an occasional abortion to save someone's life. If your conscience forbids you from doing this, you really need to specialize in something else.
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but I may have been a little too hasty. 
Upon further investigation, I found that the member I responded to was not entirely wrong here... well, according to wikipedia. Apparently some tubal pregnancies do resolve on their own. They somehow become 'unlodged' from the tube. I was previously unaware of that despite having done a lot of reading on the subject-- My sister almost died from a ruptured tubal pregnancy.
My bad. I could have deleted but will let the post stand.
either way he's fucking lying his sorry ass off
Thats what I think and I'm sticking to it 
