No Choice: Waldo Fielding

In the 1950s, Dr. Waldo Fielding was an obstetrician working at Harlem Hospital in Manhattan. He remembers women from the community coming to him - many terrified they would be reported - with complications from backroom abortions. After Roe, he remembers the protestors at his Boston clinic and the harassment women endured just to access medical care. This is his story.
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  • @michaeld7715
    @michaeld77156 жыл бұрын

    Nobody else's business, but the patient's business. 💪

  • @tinblessing8
    @tinblessing83 жыл бұрын

    Such an important topic. Thank you!

  • @The64v
    @The64v4 жыл бұрын

    I cannot like this video enough.

  • @seamusin1697
    @seamusin16975 жыл бұрын

    I am proud to say that Dr. Fielding delivered me. Sadly, my mother and father are now gone, but Dr. Fielding fortunately still remains. I shall be eternally grateful to him and am happy my journey into this world was aided by such a fine doctor who is eloquent, intelligent, passionate, and dedicated to the field of medicine and helping others. Thank you, Dr. Fielding!

  • @BigLach_1908

    @BigLach_1908

    2 жыл бұрын

    Waldo sadly passed away January 1st 2022, at the age of 100, he was a great man and an amazing grandfather to me.

  • @RobinHerzig
    @RobinHerzig2 жыл бұрын

    The story of that woman's bowels hanging outside her body was absolutely chilling Happy to know Dr Fielding saved her + she went on to get married… but this story will stay with me This man is an American Hero ⚕

  • @Ben-op42o
    @Ben-op42o Жыл бұрын

    It should be a man's choice whether or not to pay child support for an unwanted child.

  • @glory7086
    @glory70863 жыл бұрын

    Sad that he feels the Mother’s life is more important than the most helpless among us. A baby. The mom more than likely had a choice. The baby didn’t. Sorry doc. You’re not God. You don’t have that that kind of power to decide who lives or dies.

  • @ahminel4547

    @ahminel4547

    3 жыл бұрын

    You're not God either what gives you the right to make judgments against another person. Your Bible says that it's better to kill a bastard but you judge against it.

  • @glory7086

    @glory7086

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ahminel4547 are you calling an innocent baby a bastard!? No, I’m not God but God did say, Jeremiah 1:5. “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you”. So basically what God is saying is there are no mistakes. He created that baby and we do not have the right to murder an innocent baby!! Which means killing a baby is murder, whether you think it’s a bastard or not!!! 🤦🏻‍♂️

  • @ahminel4547

    @ahminel4547

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@glory7086 Look Bitch your Bible is the one that says what I commented, and though I wouldn't do it myself I don't believe your God gave you the right to judge those who make that decision for themselves and the point of Jeremiah is that he wasn't a bastard he had a father(Dad) who would be teaching him right from wrong. A bastard is a baby that isn't going to have that teaching. Just because you don't understand your Bible doesn't mean that you get to go around trying to control everything and everyone by what you believe it means. And the soul according to your God doesn't enter the body until birth. There are only 2 men in the bible that received the spirit in the womb. How about you read the entire Bible instead of what helps you make your point. What makes a baby innocent is it's lack of spirit. It doesn't know good and evil because it doesn't have Gods breath within it. And truly innocent is the 12 yr old child who's brain isn't fully developed that people Like you would have killed for making a mistake you don't like. It's people like you who have killed children in the name of God to stop a woman's choice. Bombing clinics who perform such operations, And people like you who use the Bible to tell others what they shouldn't do all the while do exactly what you speak against. God reads the hearts of people not their actions. You have no right under the Bible you speak of to say a damn thing to anyone for their choices. It's also people like you who would send a child to the electric chair for murder. When by your standard no one that isn't in the womb is innocent and murder is killing of the innocent. So that child couldn't have possibly committed murder by your abortion standards. But people like you like to have double standards. God doesn't make mistakes but everything the mother does while a baby's in the womb can change the baby before birth. You talk of adoption but it speaks of barren women as if they're being punished. You have to look what Geshuua(Jesus) said and let alone all those words that belong to traditions of man.

  • @glory7086

    @glory7086

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ahminel4547 you can twist words anyway you want to make yourself feel better but abortion is infanticide. Abortion is the murdering of an innocent baby. Maybe you had one and that’s where this vitriol is coming from. You can be forgiven and someday meet your baby in heaven. It’s your choice! God gives you the freedom to choose. But if you continue to believe the lie from the devil that a baby is not a baby, and can be ripped apart and murdered without consequence, then you have been duped. “ I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb” doesn’t need interpretation... He created that baby and God does not make mistakes. We, humans, make mistakes which have consequences.... “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” Satan is tricking you into thinking murdering an innocent baby is ok. It’s not. Animals treat their babes better then human mommies. What a travesty..

  • @BigLach_1908

    @BigLach_1908

    2 жыл бұрын

    Then didn’t god also create the mother