It ended with her death by suicide, which took place the night before her thirty-first birthday, by hanging. She left a suicide note detailing her reason as being regret over having earlier aborted her twins. According to her mother, she did not really want to do this, but was pushed to it by her boyfriend.
"I see now I would have made a good mum," the Cornwall artist said, going on to explain that she wanted to be with her babies, that they needed her. No one else did.
Now, the hospital that performed the abortion is under fire for failure to provide sufficient counseling services, according to the deceased woman's own mother. The hospital expressed the view that they provided all they could under the circumstances at the time, but will now change their policy. In the meantime, they refuse to provide the names of the two doctors involved in the procedure.
It stands to reason that in any procedure such as this, counseling should be made readily available. This should be true even in the case of rape or incest, and even when the mother's life is at stake. Abortion is a life altering procedure for the woman involved, regardless of the circumstances of the pregnancy to be terminated, and the flood of emotions in the context of such an abrupt and drastic physiological biochemical disruption is undoubtedly profound.
Yet, there are those here in the United States who object to any calls to insure the provision of counseling services or to provide all relevant information that might give one pause in going ahead with an abortion. To some extent, the concerns might be well-founded. There is a legitimate concern that some such laws would be overly restrictive and intrusive.
Yet, it seems obvious that many such objections are self-serving on the part of the Pro-choice advocates as well.
The bottom line is, any woman who seeks to undergo an abortion needs to be confronted with the realities of the choices she is about to make. She should be given access to all relevant information in the way of known facts. This would include the potential emotional as well as physical consequences of abortion.
Clinics and hospitals are, by their nature, science based and tend to be cold and void of emotion. They almost have to be. It is a part of their training. They have to deal with life and death issues on some level on a daily basis in many if not most cases.
By the same token, counseling and other support is a given in a hospital setting in which it is determined that, for example, a certain person has inoperable cancer and only has six months to live. What doctor would give a person that kind of information and then shrug his shoulders and say, "well, that's life. Have a nice day."
Abortion should be treated in the same way as any other medical procedure. To deny the potentially drastic consequences of such a drastic operation, and to fail to give the patient any and all relevant information in order to insure that she has made a decision based on a grounding awareness of the facts, is both criminal and immoral.
The true shame of it is that this should even be subject for debate.
"I see now I would have made a good mum," the Cornwall artist said, going on to explain that she wanted to be with her babies, that they needed her. No one else did.
Now, the hospital that performed the abortion is under fire for failure to provide sufficient counseling services, according to the deceased woman's own mother. The hospital expressed the view that they provided all they could under the circumstances at the time, but will now change their policy. In the meantime, they refuse to provide the names of the two doctors involved in the procedure.
It stands to reason that in any procedure such as this, counseling should be made readily available. This should be true even in the case of rape or incest, and even when the mother's life is at stake. Abortion is a life altering procedure for the woman involved, regardless of the circumstances of the pregnancy to be terminated, and the flood of emotions in the context of such an abrupt and drastic physiological biochemical disruption is undoubtedly profound.
Yet, there are those here in the United States who object to any calls to insure the provision of counseling services or to provide all relevant information that might give one pause in going ahead with an abortion. To some extent, the concerns might be well-founded. There is a legitimate concern that some such laws would be overly restrictive and intrusive.
Yet, it seems obvious that many such objections are self-serving on the part of the Pro-choice advocates as well.
The bottom line is, any woman who seeks to undergo an abortion needs to be confronted with the realities of the choices she is about to make. She should be given access to all relevant information in the way of known facts. This would include the potential emotional as well as physical consequences of abortion.
Clinics and hospitals are, by their nature, science based and tend to be cold and void of emotion. They almost have to be. It is a part of their training. They have to deal with life and death issues on some level on a daily basis in many if not most cases.
By the same token, counseling and other support is a given in a hospital setting in which it is determined that, for example, a certain person has inoperable cancer and only has six months to live. What doctor would give a person that kind of information and then shrug his shoulders and say, "well, that's life. Have a nice day."
Abortion should be treated in the same way as any other medical procedure. To deny the potentially drastic consequences of such a drastic operation, and to fail to give the patient any and all relevant information in order to insure that she has made a decision based on a grounding awareness of the facts, is both criminal and immoral.
The true shame of it is that this should even be subject for debate.
