Abortion...

12 months ago a friend of mine had major surgery for cervical cancer (she is now 21.5).This surgery and the ensuing treatment meant that she was unable to have any more children in the near future.*M* was suffering an OCD and to counter the depression she was developing caused by this disorder her hormone levels were tested and she was given injections to increase her hormone levels to a normal level. She was not told that these injections would decrease the effectiveness of her contraception (pill).12 weeks ago M fell pregnant, as you can probably understand completely unplanned, unexpected and although not unwanted, not at a good time.On Monday morning on her doctors advice, M was booked in to a women's clinic to have the pregnancy terminated. To not have a termination could cost her life, due to there being no treatment available if the cancer should re-occur whilst she was pregnant.Put quiet simply, the nurse (?sister, medical person? whatever??) screwed up - BIG TIME. An ultrasound was done and the baby could not be located (was later found to be an ectopic pregnancy). The person conducting the procedure said it didn't matter - she would just perform the procedure anyway!!!!!! So she commenced to vacuum away.When the procedure was finished, M was screaming in pain, the nurse said she thought she was screaming in emotional pain for the loss of the baby and left her alone. Meanwhile, M was suffering from blood loss and pain so bad it knocked her out.THREE HOURS later the ambulance was called, the clinic had the hide to ask that they take M out the back entrance - fortunately the ambulance offers refused (I say fortunately because others might be more aware of the risks.)M was rushed into emergency - the part of emergency where people are revived, etc - this was SERIOUS blood loss.M was in and out of surgery all Monday afternoon and night, xrays, internal and external ultrasounds, experts brought in from Westmead, Sydney and as far as Newcastle.M came home yesterday morning, she has her doctor coming for house calls every evening for the next week. She has to go back into hospital next Monday and again the week after. The second time for surgery again to make sure that there really is nothing further wrong.M and her husband already had to wait until at least next year to have a second child.Now they have to wait until at least two more years, to ensure that all is healed properly, the cancer is totally in remission (and a reoccurrence is not caused by this major trauma) and to give a better chance that she will be able to carry a baby to term.-x-x-x-I personally know that I could never go ahead with an abortion and just accept that it had to happen.However, I can understand that M really had no choice but to have this termination. I am having a really hard time understanding however that she had to have this procedure done and so much has gone wrong. I know everything happens for a reason...