I was beaten up trying to enter an abortion clinic-right or wrong?

Question

A week ago at 32 weeks pregnant I was on my way to an abortion clinic to have a consultation (not the actual abortion). I had decided to have an abortion as the foetus was found to have a cleft lip and this is something I do not wish to deal with. As I was coming upto the clinic a pro-life protestor came upto me hurled abuse at me and tried to stop me entering the building.I put up some resistance so he grabbed me by the hair and punched me in the face.I fell to the floor and had to walk home.What I wanted to know is,do you think he was justified? I think it is NEVER right for a man to hit a woman never alone a heavily pregnant one unless he is in danger of his life but this man obviously thought he was doing a good thing.Surely whether you agree with what I'm doing or not what this man did was sick? And I may not have even been going for anything to do with an abortion!!!! I may have been there to support a friend or something.

I'm not lying to cause propaganda! My parents are pro-life and are lovely people and most of my friends are pro-lie.Most are lovely but some are just plain nasty.I guess just like with the pro-choice people.

LOL brummie73s

Answer 1

Not you again.

You are obviously a troll.

They will not give abortions at 32 weeks.

You can't tell that a baby would have a cleft lip based on an ultrasound.

Please go away.

Answer 2

At 32 weeks they won't do an abortion on you. It's illegal. Second yes that is wrong of you to kill the child just because it has a cleft lip. Obviously ALLAH(SWT) wanted the baby to have a cleft lip so who are you to get medical operations on your baby to fix it.? Third that moronic pro lifer was wrong in punching a pregnant woman. What if he had caused you to go into premature labor. I'm pro life but I'd never punch some pregnant woman in her stomach. I'd just hand out abortion photos and see if that changed the woman's mind about the abortion and if it didn't well then God have mercy on your soul.

Answer 3

By cleft lip I assume you mean cleft palate. First off, that is not a good reason to abort a child - the child is otherwise healthy and a cleft palate is no big deal to fix while the child is still a newborn. Second I'm not sure that an ultrasound can show a cleft palate.

I call this one a troll. Had this really happened she would have called the police and had the guy arrested for assault.

Answer 4

There are holes in your story that one could drive a truck through. There is no medical test that I have ever encountered that would show a cleft palate. Secondly, no honorable doctor would consider an abortion at the late term you are describing. I think you are just trying to stir up the Great Late Abortion Debate.

First, it is never right to use force for a procedure one may disagree with. There are ways to change laws that do not include violence.

Secondly, since you are dealing with your own body and your own beliefs, why not quietly go about your business? Why publicize your behavior when you know there are divisive opinions that are going to cause you to be called dirty names, etc.?

And, finally, why don't you study up on birth control measures. There is no reason for unwanted babies in today's world. We have a world filled with orphans and neglected tots and the least we can do is make sure we have babies that will be welcomed, loved and cared for. So ask your doctor to help you prevent pregnancy until you can welcome a baby, cleft lip or not.

Answer 5

You are either an idiot or lying.

No clinic would consider doing any sort of abortion at 32 weeks unless there was severe risk to the health of the mother. Period. A cleft lip would not be an acceptable reason.

That said...I have witnessed first hand the treatment of people going into these clinics by the various protestors. "Rabid" does not begin to describe it.

Answer 6

There are no circumstances under which this scenario is *EVER* right. That's physical assault, if I'm not mistaken, and on a pregnant woman, I think the punishment is more. I might not agree with your choices, but I'm not going to punch you for it. Now, abortions and abortion clinics are legal, and as long as they are then their patrons have the protection of the law, don't they?

However, I believe they don't give abortions at 32 weeks, and a baby with a cleft lip is not life endangerment. Good try though.

Answer 7

If he genuinely didnt know who you were and the reason behind your choice, he was definately wrong. I personally did work experience in a childrens hospital, 2 days of which were spent in cleft lip and palate clinics. You probably are clued up on everything, but cleft lips are very simple to fix; only one surgery, and the child's speech is never affected (unlike with cleft palates). In any case, the protester was perhaps more justified in hitting you than if you had a serverely disabled child, but he didnt know that, so he was unfair.

Answer 8

Just one more of thousands of gut-wrenching examples of the wacky, mindless, confused and sometimes violent behaviours, of religious fanatics who seek to force their extreme belief system on to everybody else using "God" as their justification. The KKK have done that since the very beginnings of that crazed organization.
A f ew hundred years ago, people of this exact same mindset lashed to stakes, those whom they could not convert, stacked brushwood around their feet and set fire to them, howling and chanting as the victims screamed in their death agony, and praising "God" that while they had burned that person's body, they had saved his soul. Those identical fanatics are among us to this day. The only difference is that they no longer have the power, given to their distant counterparts through an unseparated church/state religious dictatorship. The less fortunate thing is that these fanatics have the freedom to force themselves into other folks' lives in other ways, and simply because they proclaim their "religious beliefs" as their motivation, government backs off and is afraid to restrain them, or actually punish them if need be. All some people have to do to get away with behaviour that anyone else would be tossed in jail for, and heavily fined, is loudly protest that their actions were motivated by their religious convictions. I can find more expressive words for what I think about that, but the only one my principles will allow me to use here is "Pitiful".

Answer 9

Hi there i understand the way your feeling .Understanding why you cant cope with a cleft lip is a bit confusing all it is is a mild deformaty if the lip.Which can be sorted.Otherwise i really think you should reconsider this is not a lecture im just thinking you are making a little mistake here with your feelings toward this child.Don't abort the baby give birth to him or her and if you still feel the same put the baby up for adoption.No child should die because there mother couldn't cope with a little cleft lip .Put yourself in the situation where your mum has turned round and said we want to give you up because you have brown hair.Sound stupid doesnt it?
Its like saying to your child i want to kill you because you dont look right.It is wrong hun please change your mind.



take care and make the right decision.dont let this be something you will regret later on in life.

Answer 10

You are lying no clinic would give a abortion at 32 weeks/8months its against the law (unless the mothers health is a factor). By the way it is no longer considered a fetus at 8 months, it is a human being. Why would you lie about such a matter. Also if you were assaulted in public like that you would be required to file a police report. So stop lying you're only hurting yourself.

Answer 11

If I saw you going into an abortion clinic at 32 weeks just because you didnt want a child with a cleft lip, I would punch you in the face too!

Now p*ss off with your crap because you may be upsetting genuine people who cant have children!!!!!!