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Joanna Rubin’s piece “An Unplanned Pregnancy” was touching and interesting. I think that Rubin was attempting to express the fact that there was regret involved but she did what she thought was right. I agree with Christine, here is a young woman who did not love the person that impregnated her, in her first year of Grad school. If she did love him, she “might have kept it” (217) but she didn’t. Which is a better choice, to live a life with a child and a husband whom you do not love and resent? Or go to any lengths, in this case, Puerto Rico, to have an abortion. She admits that this was a hard decision with consequences. '''It also seems that her personal doctor was not completely opposed to her choice “When I found out I was pregnant, I went to see a doctor and he had told me to come and see him afterwards”''' (217). He even gave her antibiotics. I was wondering how often doctors helped patients who went to have abortions out of the country or illegally? –Caryn | Joanna Rubin’s piece “An Unplanned Pregnancy” was touching and interesting. I think that Rubin was attempting to express the fact that there was regret involved but she did what she thought was right. I agree with Christine, here is a young woman who did not love the person that impregnated her, in her first year of Grad school. If she did love him, she “might have kept it” (217) but she didn’t. Which is a better choice, to live a life with a child and a husband whom you do not love and resent? Or go to any lengths, in this case, Puerto Rico, to have an abortion. She admits that this was a hard decision with consequences. '''It also seems that her personal doctor was not completely opposed to her choice “When I found out I was pregnant, I went to see a doctor and he had told me to come and see him afterwards”''' (217). He even gave her antibiotics. I was wondering how often doctors helped patients who went to have abortions out of the country or illegally? –Caryn | ||
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| + | i think this piece really shows how alone women felt, and the total isolation that came along with an unwanted pregnancy. Rubin really had no one to turn to except the father of the baby who she did not love. At least today while an abortion is not a gratifying prospect to any woman, it is legal and women aren't forced to undergo isolating and often unsafe procedures. The fact that her Doctor was understanding afterwards and gave her antibiotics to treat her infection made it seem like while Doctors could not perform the procedures they were sympathetic and did what they could. So while this Doctor was unwilling to perform the procedure, he was willing to be discreet and to treat her for the infection she got obtaining an illegal abortion. Perhaps there was some feeling of guilt behind his actions, I think if I was a Doctor I would feel guilty that I was knowingly turning women away and forcing them to take extreme measures against an unwanted pregnancy. -Emma | ||
=="The Problem That Has No Name," Betty Friedan, 1963== | =="The Problem That Has No Name," Betty Friedan, 1963== | ||
