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Neither would I.
It's just a little creepy to think that the person looking after one's loved one would be equally comfortable killing her as caring for her.
For the same reason, it is important to many of us pro-life women that our OB/GYNs not perform abortions. Someone I know recently changed doctors mid-pregnancy because she discovered that her Obstetrician was doing so. She had been seeing this doctor for some time before she became aware of this.
How was it possible that she didn't know?
Many of us don't ask. Sometimes, it is because we don't want to know. It may be because we assume that the wonderful person cheerfully taking care of us and our babies couldn't possibly be one of "those doctors".
It is also true that some doctors don't exactly advertise that end of their practices to patients who do not ask.
Take, for example, Houston based OB/GYN Dr. Bernard Rosenfeld, who is the abortion provider for a National Abortion Federation (NAF) Clinic. He also has a private practice, with a website to which the NAF clinic links. The main site for his private practice makes absolutely no mention of the fact that this doctor also specializes in performing abortions, and the only link back to the NAF facility from this site is buried deep in his "Other Resources" menu, out of the way of the eyes of those who aren't looking for it.
Well, as long as he's doing the abortions somewhere else, and not in his private office, some say...
Incidentally, a simple Google search for this man's name also reveals a second website for his private practice, dedicated to the abortion "services" that he offers in the same office where he also provides prenatal and fertility care to women with, or desperately trying to achieve, wanted pregnancies.
Interestingly, if you want an abortion from Dr. Rosenfeld at his private office, it will cost you twice as much as the exact same services at the NAF facility a short distance away. Quite a price to pay just to avoid having other patients in the waiting room know why you are really there.
According to a video on the NAF website (watch it in Windows or Quicktime format), he has been doing abortions since 1980, and both abortion-related websites indicate that he prides himself on the quality of his work, even to the extent of performing abortions on patients other abortionists will not take! Why does he not advertise this on his main website, along with tubal ligation reversals and obstetric care? After all, are we not constantly being told that abortion is just another legitimate part of women's health care? And are we not also told that abortion providers are heroes?
I think we can figure out the answer to that little puzzle.
At least Rosenfeld's association with abortion can be readily found on the internet by those patients who are determined to examine his background. Not so for many other doctors, including the one my friend is now no longer seeing.
Many of us avoid patronizing businesses that support Planned Parenthood, and refuse to vote for political candidates who support public funding for abortion. The same policy should apply to our choice in doctors.
Sometimes the hard questions must be asked.
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