Zed's Agin' RU486

Affirmative Action Man said :

Zed’s fully entitled to his view about supporting RU486 or not. but why does he need to crap on & pretend to justify his view by saying it has dangers for women – where is the evidence about these dangers.

He should have the guts to say he doesn’t support it because he finds it Immoral or it goes against his Catholic faith.

Why is he opposing something he will never have to deal with personally. It’s not like getting shafted by the electorate will cause him to get pregnant…

switch said :

p1 said :

Opposing abortion in all forms because you feel life begins at conception and God doesn’t like you killing live humans is a position he can take which (while I don’t hold it) I can see as somewhat reasonable.

And if the majority of the people he represents think otherwise…

Please, let’s not get carried away here with that constituent representation nonsense..

p1 said :

Opposing abortion in all forms because you feel life begins at conception and God doesn’t like you killing live humans is a position he can take which (while I don’t hold it) I can see as somewhat reasonable.

And if the majority of the people he represents think otherwise…

Opposing abortion in all forms because you feel life begins at conception and God doesn’t like you killing live humans is a position he can take which (while I don’t hold it) I can see as somewhat reasonable.

Holding a position on the safety of a medication which is at odds with such a large group of professional medical authorities is a little like denying climate change because you don’t think it is happening.

Entirely unsurprising – no more or less than you’d expect from this a***hole.

oh and cyph, cos you’re so clearly a trained medical professional, i suppose you’re confident that inducing a miscarriage is a walk in the park and /never/ goes wrong for anyone. it’s the perfect drug with no side effects

again, bravo…loser

Cyph said :

zorro29 said :

I was unfortunately in a position where I made the choice to terminate a pregnancy (recently) and was given the option of the surgery or RU486. On the basis of information I had about the drug, I chose to use this method over the surgery (even though it wasn’t on the PBS yet and cost almost $700).

The procedure went badly and I lost a lot of blood rapidly and had severe cramping resulting in being taken to hosiptal by ambulance (requiring 4 paramedics to bring me back to full consciousness).

I was lucky that my sister was around when I took the medication as it did say you wouldnt need to be monitored when taking the medication….

Anyway, very personal, but there are real risks associated with undergoing this procedure unsupervised. What happened to me was rare but not unheard of. If i had been alone (or in an isolated area where I couldn’t be accessed by an ambulance easily), I wouldn’t be alive to tell the story today.

So, while I am a pro-choice and hope the resistance to the medication goes away, people should be aware that there ARE risks with this procedure and it should be taken as seriously as the surgical option.

I calls bulls*** on this one. Nice try, Zed.

thanks for being so sensitive….really makes dealing with the whole thing so much easier (on top of the stigma that is /already/ associated with abortion)

what happened to me can be a lesson to people with a brain and tact. easy for trolls sitting at their computer screens who have never been through anything to be so brazen and ridiculous

well done. you’re a fine example of the human race

zorro29 said :

I was unfortunately in a position where I made the choice to terminate a pregnancy (recently) and was given the option of the surgery or RU486. On the basis of information I had about the drug, I chose to use this method over the surgery (even though it wasn’t on the PBS yet and cost almost $700).

The procedure went badly and I lost a lot of blood rapidly and had severe cramping resulting in being taken to hosiptal by ambulance (requiring 4 paramedics to bring me back to full consciousness).

I was lucky that my sister was around when I took the medication as it did say you wouldnt need to be monitored when taking the medication….

Anyway, very personal, but there are real risks associated with undergoing this procedure unsupervised. What happened to me was rare but not unheard of. If i had been alone (or in an isolated area where I couldn’t be accessed by an ambulance easily), I wouldn’t be alive to tell the story today.

So, while I am a pro-choice and hope the resistance to the medication goes away, people should be aware that there ARE risks with this procedure and it should be taken as seriously as the surgical option.

I calls bulls*** on this one. Nice try, Zed.

I was unfortunately in a position where I made the choice to terminate a pregnancy (recently) and was given the option of the surgery or RU486. On the basis of information I had about the drug, I chose to use this method over the surgery (even though it wasn’t on the PBS yet and cost almost $700).

The procedure went badly and I lost a lot of blood rapidly and had severe cramping resulting in being taken to hosiptal by ambulance (requiring 4 paramedics to bring me back to full consciousness).

I was lucky that my sister was around when I took the medication as it did say you wouldnt need to be monitored when taking the medication….

Anyway, very personal, but there are real risks associated with undergoing this procedure unsupervised. What happened to me was rare but not unheard of. If i had been alone (or in an isolated area where I couldn’t be accessed by an ambulance easily), I wouldn’t be alive to tell the story today.

So, while I am a pro-choice and hope the resistance to the medication goes away, people should be aware that there ARE risks with this procedure and it should be taken as seriously as the surgical option.

Zed’s fully entitled to his view about supporting RU486 or not. but why does he need to crap on & pretend to justify his view by saying it has dangers for women – where is the evidence about these dangers.

He should have the guts to say he doesn’t support it because he finds it Immoral or it goes against his Catholic faith.

Wow, that ‘news’ announcement has shocked me to the core – as I was sure that a devout Catholic boy would be pro-RU486…..

Personally, I’m pro ZedGTFO2013.

I wonder if anyone tested Simon-the-local on his knowledge of Canberra, by asking him a few questions about the city he loves, and has spent so much time in – or was that not on the SASS agenda?

For better or for worse, I would take this as a sincerely held view on Zed’s part. He must know that in net terms, it is more likely to cost him votes, than win them, and with voting compulsory, “mobilising the base” in the American fashion, is hardly an issue. Likewise, an attempt to present as a “conviction politician” is surely of less potential benefit here than in just about anywhere else in Australia. On the latter, if things don’t work out in the Senate race, perhaps a move to Tasmania, to pursue the Harradine constituency, might be a Plan B worth considering……

I think “Joe Dempsey” forgot to include his apparent political affiliation in his correspondence..

I don’t think Zed has ever hidden his position on the matter.. I think he has 4 or 5 kids? He is entitled to his opinion like everyone else. I might not agree with this one, but throwing rubbish like this around to try and sway voters on one issue is like pissing into the wind.