Call the Midwife | Trixie's Letter on Abortion | Season 10 Episode 6 Clip | PBS

[@nastywoman5516]

Thank you, Trixie and Call the Midwife writers for reminding us of the struggle for reproductive rights. And for highlighting what women in the USA will encounter as the "right to birth"-ers have their way. They care not about the life of the mother or the child once born.

[@Paulsmuse]

Sadly now in the USA, we are headed back this way….. 😢

[@mathildeyoung1823]

What - headed towards PROTECTING unborn children? the horror lol

[@sharynloshakoff5404]

@@mathildeyoung1823 the horror is that women have lost control of their bodies. Why is a female less important than a fetus that naturally has a 25% chance of not surviving 9 months?

[@justsomestranger4894]

@@mathildeyoung1823 Did you not watch the clip?

[@courtneyholland]

This is such a lie. The US has one of the most extreme pro abortion positions right next to China and North and South Korea. Biden and the Democrats want abortion legal up until BIRTH. That is a radical position to hold.

[@wickedwitchoftheeast88]

@@mathildeyoung1823 everyone is entitled to their beliefs but they aren't entitled to force their views on others and nor do they have the right to tell a woman what she can and cannot do with her own body!!

[@Tascountrygirl]

I love this program. I too recall the days of illegal abortions and knew a young woman who had experienced one. I later joined the (Australian) Abortion Law Reform Assoc. However I feel very sad about late term abortion.

[@mathildeyoung1823]

Late term and early term abortion have the same main result as killing a newborn does - i.e. a young human being is denied a chance at a full and productive life. That is sad. Killing an unborn child needs to be illegal.

[@wickedwitchoftheeast88]

@@mathildeyoung1823 unless you've been in the situation you can't judge. Everyone's circumstances are different and pregnancy is a big thing to put your body through and women have the right to decide if they want to do that!

[@zagrizena]

​@@wickedwitchoftheeast88 no need for accusations of being judgemental, if one just expresses sadness. It's possible to disagree without judging a persons for their beliefs/actions.

[@wickedwitchoftheeast88]

@@zagrizena I agree with you, but the poster I was replying to has deleted their comment which was judgemental and hateful hence my response. I'm all for agreeing to disagree but some people aren't that reasonable.

[@nickislade5533]

There is no such thing as late term abortion,its a furphy put about by the right to life brigade who believe every foetus has a right to live despite the safety of the mother or the viability of the said foetus Late term abortion is purely for 2 reasons I states in Australia and against the law to terminate a healthy pregnancy after 20 weeks. That gives other health issues and risks Continuing to claim late term abortion like they do in America is political and as such so was the Roe V Wade removal.

[@williammckinney4090]

England's past is America's future. ☹️

[@mathildeyoung1823]

you sad that unborn children will be protected more? wow

[@hannahdyson7129]

​@@mathildeyoung1823Who will protect them once they are born?

[@mathildeyoung1823]

@@hannahdyson7129 There are long waiting lists of people wanting to adopt newborn babies and GIVE THEM A CHANCE AT A FULL AND PRODUCTIVE LIFE. Who wouldn't want their offspring to have that chance? oh wait... pro-aborts...

[@DrCuriensapprentice]

@@mathildeyoung1823you going to finance these unwanted births and finance the children?

[@mathildeyoung1823]

@@DrCuriensapprentice Are you saying it needs to be OK for a parent to euthanize a newly unwanted born child if I'm not there to finance the children? There are actually long waiting lists of people wanting to adopt newborn babies and GIVE THEM A CHANCE AT A FULL AND PRODUCTIVE LIFE- very often they will finance the birth of the baby. Who wouldn't want their offspring to have a chance at a full and productive life? oh wait...

[@humility1st]

Such class! "I hope you're not gossiping ladies"

[@CharlotteGuise]

Now the people in the states are going backwards in time

[@JohnSanJuan-zp1ed]

Abortion was a very difficult issue in my home country, USA!

[@Susan-on3gc]

You would think we’ve come along way and we have in England, when are others going to come up to date on women’s rights

[@harrisondejoux8520]

Jennifer Worth (the writer) and Trixie. Have seen first hand these consequences.

[@georgiajones3652]

call the midwife Dr doctor patrick hlep please

[@JohnSanJuan-zp1ed]

But I’m a Catholic! I respect Women’s Rights to Privacy.

[@1908oceanworld]

🤔 a lie is a lie said the nun but abortion. Doesn’t have that reaction.

[@sierrannomad]

❤️🙏🏾✨

[@gummylens5465]

Should be interesting to see how Sister Julienne (unhypocritical Christian)'s views on this will be portrayed on the show. It should be refreshing to see a non-straw man pro-lifer represented on screen.

[@mathildeyoung1823]

They wouldn't do it.... They cannot face what they support so they have to hide behind nice sounding words like "choice".

[@mmay6621]

The fact that the "nuns" (and ex-nun) support this makes the show ridiculous and far fetched.

[@sayhello5377]

I hate the term “reproductive right.” I had to struggle through infertility for 11 years and pay well over $40,000 for medical procedures to be able to become a mom. Where were my “reproductive rights”? No. People use this term instead of “pro-choice” because “right” sounds like a more powerful word. I do applied the show though for tackling the topic in this way

[@Thathestiadevotee]

Abortions cost money too you know. Pro-choice people are also fighting for people to have the right to fertility treatments like IVF. Here in America, there are several politicians trying to ban IVF and you know who’s fighting against that? Pro-choice people.

[@kristyrowland111]

You don’t need to have a biological child. Your right is to try. Just like no one else needs to have a biological child. That means people get to choose to continue a pregnancy just like you chose to try to get pregnant

[@Ikajo]

You are not in danger of dying by not becoming a mother. A pregnant person can die if things go wrong. That's the difference.

[@gingerbuttonwood2364]

I had multiple miscarriages, and only one much treasured living child. But there is no "right" to a child - that's nature's decision, helped along today by medical advances. The child has a right to caring parents, that's all.

[@vidwatcher365]

Your reproductive rights are your legal access to fertility treatments. Free fertility treatments or free access to reproductive medicine is a different conversation to your right to use it legally. However, you could have fostered or adopted. You chose to spend 40k and it was your right to do so, just as it should be a woman’s right to access contraception and should the need arise, abortion

[@campos3452]

Violence with violence is not the answer.

[@mathildeyoung1823]

So true!

[@elettrapierelli3512]

I agree with you.

[@Lucy-nw4im]

That is true.

[@TuliTheUnruly]

Abortion is healthcare, not violence. Abortion saves women's lives. That is the only thing that should ever matter. Women's health matters.

[@mo.ka.9661]

​​@TuliTheUnruly abortion is violence precisely because it ends more lives then it saves. A procedure with a scorecard like that cannot seriously be described as healthcare.

[@mathildeyoung1823]

Abortion isn't healthcare.

[@tatianafollett7249]

Well, then I sincerely hope you are willing and able to pay for the medical care, childcare, education, and general financing of each and every one of those children born to impoverished mothers without resources. Or that you are willing to increase taxes to provide similarly situated services for these mothers. Otherwise, allow them to decide what's best given their situation. Most of us, myself included, have no idea what it would be like to raise a child without job skills or a safety net.

[@nastywoman5516]

@@tatianafollett7249 This is an excellent response and these points need to be seen by all who read these comments. Please post it as a comment, not just a reply!

[@hogwartsprincess8418]

I also hope you are ready to hear about babies and children being abandoned and left for dead, mothers accidentally killing themselves trying to force a miscarriage and children being neglected, starved and abused in foster care houses run by inadequate men and women that do it only for the money.

[@Tascountrygirl]

@Mathilde Young No one who has experienced the immense suffering of illegal abortion or the suffering detailed below for people unable to access a legal abortion could possibly say this.

[@elettrapierelli3512]

Yes. Is dangerous for wellness.