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It got me again tonight. It had been a while and
took me by surprise, but it was bad. Grief. Agonizing,
overwhelming grief. A pain so enormous it took my
breath away, making it impossible to cry. Would I
never get over it? Wasn't 25 years long enough to pray
I could have my baby back?
I don't even know when I got pregnant. I don't
remember the discussions that must have taken
place between my mother and me. What I do
remember is being taken to the finest hospital, rolled
into the most sophisticated operating room, having
my baby killed by one of the top doctors in the city.
I also remember waking up and hearing women
crying and screaming, including myself. I remember
indescribable pain, blood, more blood than I had
ever seen.
Several days later, I remember being rushed in the
middle of the night to an emergency room. I was
hemorrhaging and fading in and out of consciousness
from a raging fever. My medical records say that I was
in the hospital for 6 days, underwent 2 D&Cs, and
was rolled back into the O.R. a final time for a
complete hysterectomy. I don't know what stopped
the surgeon, but he saved my life and my ability to
have children. I had been saved from a septic
therapeutic abortion. I was 15 years old.
Since those horrible days in 1973, this has never
once been spoken of. I grew up to become a
professional with a loving husband and seven
beautiful, healthy children. A miracle indeed
considering those are not the odds for someone like
me. I also know that keeping my shame and guilt
silent is killing my baby over and over again. Yes, it
was a baby, not a tissue, a mass, a condition that
needed correcting. She was alive and real and
would be 25 years old if I had given her the
opportunity to live.
My ignorance, fear, and youth were used against
us. If anyone had told me of the secret shame, fear,
pain, and lifelong regret, my baby would be alive
today. If anyone had told me about the potential
life-threatening or fatal medical complications, my
baby would be alive today. If anyone had told me the
truth, my baby would be alive today.
took me by surprise, but it was bad. Grief. Agonizing,
overwhelming grief. A pain so enormous it took my
breath away, making it impossible to cry. Would I
never get over it? Wasn't 25 years long enough to pray
I could have my baby back?
I don't even know when I got pregnant. I don't
remember the discussions that must have taken
place between my mother and me. What I do
remember is being taken to the finest hospital, rolled
into the most sophisticated operating room, having
my baby killed by one of the top doctors in the city.
I also remember waking up and hearing women
crying and screaming, including myself. I remember
indescribable pain, blood, more blood than I had
ever seen.
Several days later, I remember being rushed in the
middle of the night to an emergency room. I was
hemorrhaging and fading in and out of consciousness
from a raging fever. My medical records say that I was
in the hospital for 6 days, underwent 2 D&Cs, and
was rolled back into the O.R. a final time for a
complete hysterectomy. I don't know what stopped
the surgeon, but he saved my life and my ability to
have children. I had been saved from a septic
therapeutic abortion. I was 15 years old.
Since those horrible days in 1973, this has never
once been spoken of. I grew up to become a
professional with a loving husband and seven
beautiful, healthy children. A miracle indeed
considering those are not the odds for someone like
me. I also know that keeping my shame and guilt
silent is killing my baby over and over again. Yes, it
was a baby, not a tissue, a mass, a condition that
needed correcting. She was alive and real and
would be 25 years old if I had given her the
opportunity to live.
My ignorance, fear, and youth were used against
us. If anyone had told me of the secret shame, fear,
pain, and lifelong regret, my baby would be alive
today. If anyone had told me about the potential
life-threatening or fatal medical complications, my
baby would be alive today. If anyone had told me the
truth, my baby would be alive today.
What, you were expecting mutilated fetuses?
Sorry, no, those pictures don't sit well with me, and the unborn are by no means the only victims of abortion.
Consider that being EXTREMELY conservative, 30% of abortions are coerced according to the women who have them (Some numbers go as high as 70. But as I said, I"m going extremely conservative). 5% (conservative again) are forced. That is more than rape and health concerns put together. 2.
Don't forget the physical impact of abortion on women. We all know the risks...the FDA finally gritted its teeth and warned against RU-486. Yeah, rare cases, but don't you think women taking those deserve to know the risks? 3.
But abortion is SAFER than childbirth!
Not according to STAKES. Studies suggest abortion is 3.5 times more deadly than childbirth. Well I guess no one here is surprised, I was a little taken aback. I kinda hoped it was a prolife study, because it's just...a sad statistic. But it isn't. The link I give as a source will be to a prolife site, which has a combination of many studies confirming the STAKES results, but I assure you that you can look up those studies individually and find them in places with no prolife bias. 4.
We are prolife. We aren't profetus. What we can never lose sight of is that all human life is equally important, not more or less so due to age.
Consider the accomodations made for pregnant women by society. A parking space or two in some parking lots. Maternity leave.
Wow. We sure know how to treat our women! Why do so many women choose abortion? They feel it's the only option. Society says, abort or your life is ruined. Prolife advocates tend to respond with saying the fetus's life overrides that anyway, but putting that aside, that isn't true, and if it is, it shouldn't be. Why the heck is pregnancy something to be frowned upon? Why is it a punishment or a burden? Why aren't pregnant women protected from coerced abortion by employers, spouses, or parents?
This is a joke. I actually wish it was, but it isn't. It is LEGAL in this country to perform an abortion against a woman's wishes if you feel it's in the interest of her health. Wait a minute, isn't it her body and her choice? How about some of these lovely proabortion quotes? 5.
"I am the mother of a 12-year-old girl and I can tell you unequivocally that if my daughter was pregnant, I would take her kicking and screaming to have an abortion," - Ellen Barkin 6.
"Saturday's our big day and I didn't want to generate any more confusion, any more panic than was already present at the time. She was loud, and as I said, she was shrill, and there were a lot of patients who were hearing what was going on, and the normal rhythm of the day was interrupted. The other patients must have been terrified, and I didn't want the ambulance showing up with all the lights and sirens." - William P. Egherman (this was an explanation of why he instructed an ambulance to drive without sirens and lights. He botched an abortion and pulled part of her intestines out, after his first attempt at dilating the cervix the patient begged him to stop, but guess what he did?)7.
"I've already paid for it." - boyfriend of a 25 year old woman who came out before even getting on the table, went to him, and was soon sedated and brought back and had the procedure done. 7.
These are attrocious, right? Surely they're isolated events. Well, why are numbers so big? Why are so many women hindered more than helped by abortion? Even when women make the choice themselves, they are victimized. As soon as they are told that abortion is the only way out and there is no life involved, they become victims. When it hits them later on what they have done, they aren't helped. They aren't helped at all. How many women DON'T regret having abortions? 20%. Wow. What a nice number. So 80% of women who go through this suffer but 20% are fine. 8.
"Guilty? Yes. No matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; But oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime!" - Susan B Anthony 9.
Sums it up nicely. Women who choose to abort for any motive have killed. It'll most likely haunt them for the rest of her life. The ones who feel none of the blow are the ones who convinced her she needed to get one in the first place....they've harmed not only the child, but the woman.
Women's liberation took a step back. "Abortion liberates women." Because it's very liberating for me to know that I am only worth what my body is. Because I feel so free and wonderful just knowing that I am worth nothing if I'm pregnant and have it in my power to fix the problem by killing my child. Really, it is such a blessing. I also enjoy knowing that pregnant women are too weak to be held to the same standards as everyone else. Women with unexpected pregnancies can't succeed unless they have an abortion, because we're just too darn stupid and helpless to come up with any option that doesn't involve killing another human being. That gives me so much confidence.
I close with this quote, because it is something which is very true indeed.
"Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women." - Alice Paul 9.
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1. Feminists for life, Reprinted from Rachel*s Vineyard
2. Elliot Institute letter, Forced Abortions
3. FDA Warns Against RU-486
4. Abortion Risk
5. Population Research Institute
6. KeepMedia
7. World Net Daily, 03-09-04
8. A List of Major Psychological Sequelae of Abortion
9. Voices of Our Foremothers
