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Number of “Abortion Doulas” increasing in Canada

Sep 7, 2017

By Dave Andrusko

Shannon Hardy (Photo by:Ian Selig)

Shannon Hardy (Photo by:Ian Selig)

“Normalization” of abortion is Job 1 for the Abortion Industry. If (as they believe) killing the child is no different than bringing her to term–it’s just choosing one “option” over another–then choosing death over life is of no more moral significance than choosing Coke over Pepsi. Indeed, women should see offing an unborn child or two as a kind of rite of passage, better yet an exercise in female empowerment.

A key part of normalization is corrupting medicine, which means overturning the Prime Directive: first do no harm.

Pro-abortionists know that many, many medical professionals are extremely uneasy even being around abortion. That is why the Abortion Establishment pushes so hard for mandatory abortion training for physicians and nurses and for rules that compel physicians to refer women to abortionists willing to do what they won’t: take the life of an innocent unborn human being.

This is a roundabout way of addressing a topic that comes up periodically and about which we have written numerous posts: the abortion doula.

The abortion what, you ask?

These are women who counsel/console/comfort/transport mothers who are aborting their children. Like everything abortion touches, the work of an abortion doula corrupts what a birth doula traditionally does: assist a woman during childbirth.

The most recent story appeared today in The Coast, a Halifax, Canada, newspaper with the headline, “Abortion doulas offer support in difficult times.”

What makes this story, written by Maggie Rahr, different is highlighted in the subhead: “Although new to Nova Scotia, the work done by the Maritime Abortion Support Services group is already set to radically change with the approval of drugs like methotrexate and misoprostol.”

These drugs, as you know, make up the two-drug RU-486 chemical abortion technique, whose popularity is growing in the United States. Approval of its wider use in Canada has just occurred, although of course pro-abortionists there whine about access “limitations.” (More about that below.)

Rahr’s story is a profile of Shannon Hardy, a woman with two abortions, two live births, and a miscarriage in her background, who says her mind was “blown” six years ago when she learned “that people [aka women] on Prince Edward Island had to leave the province if they needed an abortion. Then was the inspiration for the Maritime Abortion Support Services group on Facebook.

Hardy is proud not only of the 250 women the group has “supported” through their abortions, but the potential (so to speak) for growth. In August, Rahr tells us, all 18 spots in Hardy’s “abortion doula” training session were filled. Another session is already planned for later this year.

The group has morphed from its beginnings as essentially a contact point on Facebook “connecting people seeking abortions to volunteers,” Rahr writes.

In 2015, the PEI [Prince Edward Island] government agreed to improve access to abortion by coordinating with hospitals in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. But the demand for support through Hardy’s group isn’t shrinking. The wait for an abortion in Nova Scotia alone can be as long as 12 weeks, or one full trimester of pregnancy.

Today, Hardy works closely with the Termination of Pregnancy Unit in the Victoria General hospital. They keep her phone number taped to the wall. The nurses call her if someone comes in with no one to take them home.

Now that Health Canada has approved the use of abortion drugs like methotrexate and misoprostol, “Hardy says the work of an abortion doula is about to radically change.”

What she means by that is not entirely clear. Right now, the drugs can only be prescribed, Rahr explains, “by general practice doctors with special training.”

But the implication is that this will change over time, in two ways. Fewer requirements meaning more access to chemical abortion, on the one hand, and an increase in the number abortions (because of the increase in the number of medical personnel who can prescribe their use) on the other hand.

At the risk of stating the super-obvious, there is not a word in Rahr’s story about even the possibility of a woman being negatively affecting by her abortion. Nor is there a syllable that conveys an essential but neglected truth: chemical abortions often are horribly painful.

Another puff piece for the abortion industry.

Categories: Abortion Canada