Ron Collins
Jul 24, 2017 · 2 min read

I’m a little surprised that someone with at least what I am familiar with about your views, Leslie Loftis, has written all this and yet not even suggested that the era of legal and absolutely commonplace abortions might have something to do with why mothers are dying.

I see several potential avenues down which to explore this:

  • that human life itself has been consequently devalued, and that the devaluing of mothers’ lives might be an unintended consequence of devaluing the lives of the unborn;
  • that women who have undergone one or more abortions prior to a planned pregnancy are given almost no information or warning, for political reasons, as to what their increased risks with pregnancy, live birth or post-partum might be;
  • that women who object to abortion on whatever grounds, must choose between a medical profession they distrust fundamentally for its destruction of life in the face of an oath to first do no harm, or instead undertaking other means of seeing to themselves during pregnancies and births, than to entrust them to baby-killers.

This third point, God rest her soul, may well describe why my sister passed away at forty-four, of undiagnosed cervical cancer that she had let go far beyond untreatable until it weakened her heart and she died of a coronary.

She’d had five children, four of them outside any traditional hospital setting, and had distrusted doctors and the medical field as a whole all her life. Not only had various quacks done very wrong by every member of her family (including me) the whole time she was growing up, but also the year she graduated high school was also the year of Roe v Wade, and she had been both anti-feminist and pro-life ever since.

She seemed to believe that placing her children as yet unborn in the care of the very same people who were destroying unborn lives (even in the same shift as seeing to her) was nothing less than putting her children at grave risk. I don’t think that she was anywhere near alone among mothers in that regard, either.

None of this from me is any pretense of any scientific or journalistic analysis on my part. I don’t have those numbers nor know how to find them.

But for as big and spring-loaded a topic as you lay out above, and for as obvious as you have made your views relative to women and the unborn both in the past, I am almost stunned that such a big elephant in the room seems to have gone absolutely unnoticed by you here.

    Ron Collins

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