An abortion doula provides physical and emotional support to a patient during their abortion process. It's an added level of care outside of the actual medical care where providers are attuning to whatever the patients' needs are, to make them as comfortable as possible during the process. That can look like making sure they're warm enough or making sure that they have food or drinks or just whatever is going to make them feel supported. The doula can step in and advocate for the patient and offer the patient options. This also looks like some level of physical support with breathing exercises or visualization exercises to help take the patient's mind off any pain or discomfort that they may be experiencing because, sadly, with any medical procedure, there can be some level of discomfort. The abortion doula is there to really walk them through that.
How many medical procedures require that level of support. Certainly not after an appendectomy or double bypass to use two examples that I know well. There are women who feel guilt later about the destruction of "a clump of cells" thst might someday have turned into baby.
So who's providing comfort and care to the innocent baby?
ReplyDelete> How many medical procedures require that level of support.
ReplyDeleteNot to take the pro-abortion side, but it's important to be honest with ourselves about this.
MOST medical procedures (the ones I've had range from spine surgery to toe surgery) require some level of assistance from a non-medical care giver. It's just that most of us, when we have a hernia repair, have a parent, spouse or friend (or group of friends) who aren't judging us for the surgery, and are perfectly willing to help.
I know that after my toe surgery, my hernia repair, and my spine surgery I *heavily* leaned on my wife for support.
Women have been getting abortions at high numbers in this country without doulas since the 1970s, and they've either done it alone or with a close friend or family member for support, so it's clearly not a requirement.
Abortion is, at least to many left-wing feminists, a sort of sacrament, so it's sort of providing a member of the clergy to assist.