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cradling my buddy in my arms for the last time and already grieving, I asked the vet how he was able to handle this necessary, but tragic task that was part of his profession. He told me, "I wish all I had to do was help kittens and puppies all day long, but you just have to accept that this part comes with the territory. It's not easy, but it's what you have to do."

I can't imagine what I would have done if the vet's office had turned us away because they felt no one should end a life except for God. Let my cat die a slow, agonizing death? Kill him myself somehow?

And this was a cat. His inevitable death did not threaten my own life or health (apart from a broken heart). I seriously don't understand how a doctor could refuse to help a woman with a life-threatening condition, no matter how that condition came about.

As others here have said, doctors who don't want to treat patients who have complications from abortions should not be doctors or just should not be emergency room doctors so that they can go off and have a private practice and pick and choose patients to their self-righteous heart's desire.