Posted on 11/21/2020 5:44:50 PM PST by Morgana
When Carol St. Amour became pregnant the first time, she wanted to keep her baby, but her boyfriend Jim made it clear he wanted her to have an abortion. He threatened to leave her if she gave birth. In the book “Life Stories,” St. Amour shared her story of forced abortion and regret.
St. Amour described herself at the time as a “pro-choice feminist,” but she didn’t want to raise her baby without a father. She said, “He stated he did not want me to have the baby, and that if I did, he’d leave me. I was crushed. I was a very open-minded, pro-choice feminist… But this was his child, too.”
St. Amour told a feminist friend about the pregnancy and that didn’t want an abortion, but the friend encouraged her to abort. St. Amour explained, “[S]he said, ‘Well, you can always have more children, but there’s only one Jim. So, if you love him…'” The lack of support from her friend was part of the reason St. Amour went to her doctor to discuss abortion. That doctor sent her to an abortion facility. She explained:
[W]anting very much to please [Jim], plus being fearful of his leaving me, I made an appointment to “discuss” this with my doctor… The doctor made arrangements to have the pregnancy terminated the following week. The place was ‘Women’s Medical Services’; I found out later that the doctor operated the place outside his OB/GYN practice.
The doctor, then, had a financial stake in her having an abortion.
Jim went with St. Amour to the abortion facility. St. Amour noted that she was the only woman having an abortion that day who was accompanied by a man. None of the fathers of the other women’s babies came with them to the abortion facility.
She recalled that she did not receive any counseling at the abortion facility:
I remember the assistant’s very cold, businesslike manner, not too talkative… there was no compassion or counseling, just an attitude of “let’s get it over with, there are many patients to deal with.”
The abortion itself was traumatic for St. Amour. “I was instructed to get up on the table, put my legs in the stirrups and relax… The doctor began inserting this and that, and then the machine started,” she said. “The noise was unforgettable… I felt this gripping pain – it hurt so bad that I cried out. The doctor told me to ‘shut up’ because there were ‘other girls’ and the ‘walls were thin.’
St. Amour went on to marry Jim, who coerced her into a second abortion. She fell into drug abuse and heavy drinking, as is common for women who undergo abortions. Her marriage to Jim was filled with conflict and arguments and eventually, they divorced. She later blamed her problems with addiction on her abortions.
By the time she was 31, St. Amour had developed cervical cancer and lost her fertility. Childless, she now regrets her abortions. She wonders where the feminists were who should have helped her to be strong and not give in to a man’s demands. She explained:
Where was the feminists’ protection of my rights at the doctor’s office and the abortion clinic? No feminist was encouraging my male chauvinistic boyfriend to take a walk. None of my feminist friends offered to really help me. No, they rallied to his side.
Forced abortion is a common occurrence, though the abortion industry tends to turn a blind eye to it. A study in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons found that nearly three-quarters (73.8%) of women who have undergone abortions reported experiencing some level of pressure to do so. A 2019 study on abortion and mental health compared women who aborted “wanted” babies to those who aborted “unwanted” babies. Both groups of women suffered increased risks to their mental health after the abortions, but the study noted that “[w]omen who terminated one or more wanted pregnancies experienced a 43% higher risk of affective problems… relative to childbirth, compared to women terminating only unwanted pregnancies.” Source: DC Reardon Life Stories (Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway Books, 1992) 65-66, 68
Excellent post revealing the true nature of the abortion racket. Their only desire is money, control and manipulation. Everything about abortion as the left portrays it is a damnable lie.
“When Carol St. Amour became pregnant the first time, she wanted to keep her baby, but her boyfriend Jim made it clear he wanted her to have an abortion. He threatened to leave her if she gave birth”
Sometime back in early October I was out with friends when a young woman I know said to me “I’m for abortion because I don’t want white men telling me what to do with my body” I looked at her and said “Hon, they already are” but she did not get it.
This young lady is in her 20 I’d say she just turned that or is about 19. When I was her age, I felt the same so I did not turn this into a prolife-prochoice argument I only said a silent Hail Mary and hoped one day she would see the light the way I did and not the way most women do.
I’m only telling you all this story as I post this article. These women really think abortion is about “white men not controlling their bodies”. Like I said to that young lady. “hon, they already are”.
They are nothing but monsters.
Thank you and see my third comment. Where is the “choice”? It’s not safe, it’s not rare, there is no choice it’s only legal.
How can we as society believe in something more than ourselves, when we can’t even protect the most vulnerable of all.
Jim sounds like an asshat. I would advise any woman to run screaming from him.
Why is giving up the child for adoption never even considered as an option?
stupidity leading with it’s crotch
Her dickhead boyfriend is afraid she will change her mind and want to keep the baby and he does not want that to happen. That means he has to pay child support. So the baby must die so his life is easy.
Awful but true.
Yup
All idiocy comes from peoples’ groins
A Black friend told me there’s an old saying in the ‘hood, A stiff d**k has no conscience
Might be true
But given the women have kids from several different men, a wet slit apparently doesnt either
Feminist women love to kill.
JoMa
A 17 year old girl on probation came to tell me she was headed to get an abortion. I finally asked if someone was waiting for her; had she changed her mind; and was she afraid to tell them. She said yes to all three questions. I told her to go home, and think about it. I saw her two years later when she brought the baby in. I saw her about a year ago, and she told me the young man with her was her son. Nice looking kid. She works everyday in our small town. We always speak and say hello.
Seeing so many who choose abortion its can be discouraging., yet when you see the ones who choose their baby’s life...hope is renewed.
Some “friends” you’ve got there.
“A Black friend told me there’s an old saying in the ‘hood, A stiff d**k has no conscience”
Not just in the hood. I grew up hearing that pearl of wisdom in my very rural, very white area in the 60’s.
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