How Abortion Hurts Women -- The Hard Proof

Crisis ^ | June 2005 | Erika Bachiochi

[Conservative til I die]

OK, serious question. Since a miscarriage ultimately is the same as an abortion in its end result - no child - why do those who suffer miscarriages not report a higher rate of breast cancer ? Seems to me it would.

I won't go into ant of the science, but remember one thing, the miscarriage function is programmed into our body's system. It is a natural defense mechanism against something going very wrong. An abortion is an artificial act, sometimes involving scalpels and vaccuum forcibly removing a baby from a woman's womb.

[Conservative til I die]

Here's the thing...women who have been hurt by their abortions (or so they say, it is a convenient excuse for problems in their lives),

Wow, you're awfully compassionate.

[Conservative til I die]

Don't you think it's much more interesting to debate all sides of an issue than to just cheerlead? I think it's important to hear all sides of an issue.

Then present your side. All I've seen on this thread is a couple of one-line posts about "some women are fine with it" as if this gets into any of the pertinent issues on the matter, such as when life begins; is abortion the taking of a human life or not; if so, is an abortion murder; what are the health risks to the woman; what are the larger societal effects of legalized abortion?

[Conservative til I die]

As I said before, happy is not the proper word. But it doesn't define my life. No. It was the right decision for me at the time.

While I can be compassionate to anyone who's had an abortion, especially because of the circumstances *most* women who have them are in, the fact is the first step to defeating evil is to name it, to call it for what it is, and abortion is the murder of the unborn.

And however you try to rationalize your situational morality (it was the right decision at the time...), whether abortion is a murderous act is not contingent on what you think about it.

To use a cliche, two wrongs do not make a right. It can never be right to engage in a murderous act even if it will help others.

[outinyellowdogcountry]

So, this article brings several points concerning the mother's adverse health effects from abortion and your point consists of your opinion that women are fine with their decision if they don't talk about it. You conclude from your own opinion that this position is a majority position. Interesting. It sounds like you are the one objecting to a real discussion of both sides of the issue. I don't want to anger you, just trying to follow your logic.

[Coleus]

Erika Bachiochi is the editor of The Cost of “Choice”: Women Evaluate the Impact of Abortion (Encounter Books, 2004) and is the at-home mother of three small children. Her Web site is http://erika.bachiochi.com.

 

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[cgk]

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[Lorianne]

It was precisely this elitist element of the abortion movement that first jolted me to rethink the "pro-choice" position I held in my early college years. I'd been studying in Washington, D.C., during a semester of my junior year and interning with a small think tank that helped state legislatures in their efforts to reform welfare. As I became immersed in the problems of the poor—especially poor women—I grew disgusted with the argument put forth by abortion advocates that the availability of abortion would lift women out of poverty. The thought that we, as a wealthy nation, would claim to solve the problems of the poor by helping them rid themselves of their own children haunted me.

What if we told only blacks that to solve poverty, they should abort their babies? How would THAT sound. Yet we tell women that every day.

Many who hold the "pro-choice" position do so because they think abortion provides a means to manage the burden the poor place on the rest of the society. Justice Blackmun, author of the Supreme Court's opinion in Roe, epitomized this tragic view in a later case in which he dissented from the majority's refusal to require taxpayers to fund abortions (Beal v. Doe). Blackmun said that the cost of elective abortion "is far less than the cost of maternity care and delivery" as well as "the welfare costs that will burden the state for the new indigents and their support in the long, long years ahead...." And so, he went on to say, without taxpayer funding of abortion for the poor, "the cancer of poverty will grow."

Sickening EUGENIC argument from a SC Justice.