Reply #126: It was more complicated than that [View All]

The girl who was pregnant had to visit three psychiatrists - this was in a state where therapeutic abortions were legal, which was not every state - and she had to tell each shrink that if she "were forced to carry this baby to term, she would kill herself."

Then, the three shrinks would present their findings - always in favor of allowing the pregnancy to be terminated, since they'd been paid in cash - to an Abortion Board (yep, that's what it was called), and the Board would vote up or down on the abortion.

It was not always an up, by the way.

If the vote was in the girl's favor, she was quickly admitted to the OB-Gyn's hospital, where she was given general anesthesia and the abortion was performed.

After she woke up and was sent back to her room, she would then discover that she was in the psychiatric wing of the hospital and the lock on the door to her room was on the outside.

Money or not, how many of us would wish something like this on any young girl?

It's about choice. If you don't want to have an abortion, don't have one. That's all.