Mao
03-05-2006, 08:30 PM
I thought you might find this interesting:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6409077/
The advent of the do-it-yourself abortion
• March 3, 2006 | 8:46 PM ET
I nearly fell out of my chair when I read one of the leading blog entries of the past few days. It is instructions on how to perform an abortion. The context is that women in South Dakota, where abortions are banned, will need to perform them themselves. Of course it makes sense that something like this would come up in the information age. The Internet is the new back alley. (This should go without saying, but as a rule, it's crazy to follow medical advice from a blog. And if you're wondering where the link is for this item, after discussing it with my editor, I decided to leave it as a look-it-up-yourself item. While I do think this will be a huge story when word of it spreads, it feels wrong to link to instructions for performing a medical procedure as casually as I do instructions on making a hoverboard from a leaf blower. This is the balance I've struck between my goal to inform and my duty to link responsibly.)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6409077/
The advent of the do-it-yourself abortion
• March 3, 2006 | 8:46 PM ET
I nearly fell out of my chair when I read one of the leading blog entries of the past few days. It is instructions on how to perform an abortion. The context is that women in South Dakota, where abortions are banned, will need to perform them themselves. Of course it makes sense that something like this would come up in the information age. The Internet is the new back alley. (This should go without saying, but as a rule, it's crazy to follow medical advice from a blog. And if you're wondering where the link is for this item, after discussing it with my editor, I decided to leave it as a look-it-up-yourself item. While I do think this will be a huge story when word of it spreads, it feels wrong to link to instructions for performing a medical procedure as casually as I do instructions on making a hoverboard from a leaf blower. This is the balance I've struck between my goal to inform and my duty to link responsibly.)