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Originally Posted by Accyexplorer
You guess wrong Margaret, I was talking to a (very) close friend about this subject, She had a miscarriage and her partner, as he put it "was put in the same area as those who just couldn't be bothered to use contraception".
I just thought it was a little insensitive on the hospitals behalf and wanted to know if you (especially) but others too have had any similar experiences and yours/their thoughts....forget it though  |
Why do you assume that someone who was having a termination of pregnancy'could not be bothered to use contraception'? Do you
know this to be the case?
Have you never heard of contraceptive failure...that is not
failing to use it, but using it and for some reason, it fails?
A termination of pregnancy has to be sanctioned by two doctors who have to sign that the woman in questions fulfils the criteria of the 1967 Abortion Act. So it isn't just by request.
How did your close friends partner know what any other patient was having done...since the treatment of patients is confidential?
It is not the fault of the NHS if patients wish to talk about what they are having done. Can you imagine if all patients who were having a pregnancy terminated(for whatever reason) went to one designated ward....a ward where no other treatment was performed.
Very soon the community at large would dub this place 'the abortion ward'....so NO woman would be able to keep her treatment confidential.....because if she was going to this ward she could only be having one thing.
When patients go into a gynaecology ward they could be next to someone who is having investigations for infertility, investigations into unexplained bleeding - in fact any number of 'women's' complaints.
Only they(and of course the medical team) know what they are having done...unless they choose to discuss it,
it is no-one else's business.
Each patient is getting the treatment they
need.......and this is being done in an appropriately sensitive manner.
Now that early termination of pregnancy is done by medical means(i.e. tablets) Women who opt for this, only stay in the hosptial for a couple of hours. Many of them will abort at home....and like as not flush the products of conception down the toilet...and give this no thought at all.