Posted on 08/06/2007 4:46:02 PM PDT by wagglebee
Post-Abortive Women Already Serving Time
Contact: Janet Morana, 917-297-0946; Georgette Forney, 412-398-7885
STATEN ISLAND, New York, August 6 /Christian Newswire/ -- Leaders of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, the nation's largest network of women and men harmed by abortion, today responded to Newsweek writer Anna Quindlen who asked in her latest column how much jail time women should serve if abortion were made illegal.
"To Anna Quindlen and anyone else I would say that women are already serving time for abortion right now in our own prisons," said Georgette Forney, co-founder of SNMAC. "I know this from my own experience and the experiences of countless other women I know. No condescending dismissal of women's torment by abortion ideologues can diminish the daily punishment of guilt, shame, and remorse post-abortive women experience."
"It's not mothers who should serve jail time for abortion," added Janet Morana, also a co-founder of SNMAC. "The abortion profiteers and their shills in the press have been telling society for years that whatever it is that abortion terminates, it's not a baby. This propaganda onslaught has taken its toll in women who believed that lie and who emphatically state today that had they known their child were not just a 'clump of tissue,' as abortionists told them, they would have never aborted. We should not and will not jail women who have been lied to for decades."
This is EXACTLY what the women I've met who had abortions have told me.
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I have no doubt this is true. I’m sure at least some of the women who had abortions have some sense of morality. But do all of them? I’m not sure.
If abortion is illegal, I think women who slaughter their children should serve some jail time. Too much to ask? Really?
Maybe something trivial, 30 days in jail, would at least be a deterent, and a deterent could save lives.
Don’t know if the stat is right, but IIRC 40% of women who have an abortion get clinically depressed about the decision. In any other area of medical treatment, side effects like that are discussed with the patient before a procedure.
I tend to believe that most doctors won’t perform most abortions because that will not be able to live with the idea of what they are doing.
The question for them is:
If they really have to choose between two patients living, then they are a doctor. If they are of the perspective that it is a woman’s choice they are an abortionist.
It’s a really easy test.
DK
Treat it the same as prostitution: punish those who sell the service, but not those serviced.
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I guess abortion advocates are trying to stir up fear among women that they'll be thrown in jail for having an abortion if Roe-v-Wade is overturned. Makes for a good reason to vote for a Democrat, doesn't it?
What a crock! I'm guessing that if any jail time will be demanded, it will be of the abortionists, not the women victimized by them.
I recently read Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't (Hardcover) by John R. Lott Jr.. I liked it a lot. It was written as a rebuttal of Freakonomics, and it succeeds brilliantly.Freakonomics proposed that Roe v Wade was responsible for the drop in crime in the 1990s, because the abortions eliminated so many people at highest risk of criminality. Lott's reply is that Roe put pressure on women who would otherwise have elected premarital abstinence, and that lead to increased unmarried pregnancies, some by women who were a priori disinclined to abort - and some by women who declined after the fact to abort.
That kind of effect makes it tougher to form stable two-parent families.
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