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South Dakota Pediatrician Says His Experience Shows Abortion Is Unnecessary In Any Situation: Dr. Don Oliver, a pediatrician in Rapid City, South Dakota, has had an opinion piece published in The Dakota Voice. Well worth reading in its entirety, the following are excerpts from his letter:

I have been a pediatrician in Rapid City for 26 years now. During those 26 years it has been my job and privilege to attend the births of many infants whose pregnancies were complicated in various ways: prematurely, infections, toxemia, and multiple births among many others.

I want to tell you from a medical perspective that it is very, very rare that a physician would need to choose between the life of the mother and the life of the child. There is almost always something that can be done for both… Why are all these incredible things being done? Because all life is precious and God given. All children deserve the life that God has planned for him in His infinite wisdom.

The overwhelming number of abortions done in South Dakota, and across our nation, are done for expediency or convenience. They are done on perfectly healthy babies and perfectly healthy mothers…They are done because a pregnant woman feels hopeless or helpless. We as a society, and especially a Christian community, need to seek out these women, and be instruments of God’s grace and compassion.

The psychological literature is full of data indicating that abortion following a rape is more traumatic than the rape itself and leads to more long lasting emotional and psychological complications. We have interviewed many women who have told us their child has been the healing instrument from the trauma of the rape. And if it unfortunately happened to them again that they would make the same decision.

I have also over the years had the privilege of caring for many malformed, abnormal children whose lives were cut short or handicapped in human terms. Perfect in God’s plan, but not in our clouded viewpoint. NONE of the families that I have served, in these situations, have regretted their child’s life. They ALL celebrated and treasured something special in their child’s life, however brief. I have counted it a privilege, by God’s grace, to be involved with these families.

Oh what a burden our society carries for its sin. What an opportunity to be instruments of God’s healing grace. Please God let it start here in this state today. Let Your grace and mercy go forth and heal our land. Whatever the results of the election may be. Abortion is not an unforgivable sin.

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