A pretty thorough smack-down:
But how does the young non-mother have standing to sue? She came to the clinic to have the baby removed from her body and destroyed. The baby was removed and destroyed. What’s the actual harm to her? She didn’t like the method? The issue seems to be that she was forced to witness the ordeal that was a direct, if messy, consequence of the procedure she requested. Would it have been better to see the baby taken out in parts? Injected with poison and born dead?
Her lawyer claims she was ambivalent to begin with. Sure. But so what? She made her decision. Her lawyer responds, “She came face to face with a human being. And that changed everything.” While that is emotionally plausible — even likely — again, so what? She was aborting the baby precisely because it was a human being which, she says, she was not mature enough to care for. What was it she thought would happen?
If you think that sounds harsh, blame the “pro-choice” activists who say nothing should prevent a woman from exercising her “right” to “choose” without ever getting into the details of what, exactly, that “choice” entails.
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Andrea adds: Thanks for posting this, Brigitte.
You know, once in a while a story will surface–the specific one I recall from about three years ago was from India–about the bones of babies found in the gutters on streets, either after infanticide or abortion. The response tends to be one of horror and shock from this part of the world. Because over here, we conceal the remains and body disposal. How civilized.
That mother went in to have her baby killed. Her baby was killed. Et voila: that’s what we here in North America call a screaming success and an advancement of women’s dignity. And yes, I do blame those “honest, informative” abortion providers. The girl involved is not without her share of the responsibility. But if she’s been told her whole life this is a valid option, a workable solution, and a compassionate course of action–and then meets face to face with a gruesome reality–well, it’s a gruesome reality the abortion provider fails to see because he/she is so used to it.
Off to get some valium now. (This stuff, for all the fun we have blogging, does make me angry.)
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The fact that people don’t understand or believe what it is they are doing until it is literally shown to them, is the worst kind of intellectual abandonment. People really aren’t thinking these things out, and instead taking up positions based upon sympathy only for what they can see. Despite this being the information-age, we are evidently quite anti-intellectual.
I don’t like the idea of showing graphic images of what abortion does, but cases like this can be seen to argue for it.
I am with you Andrea – it is difficult not get very angry about this.
What did this woman think was going to happen is a very good question.
Radical pro-abortion feminists keep telling us that this is just “another mecical procedure” similar to removing a kidney. Well, I can watch graphic medical procedures on TV any night of the week – however there are no abortion clinic dramas. Pro-choicers are the first to try and ban images of this “medical procedure”. Seems to me they think there is something special and different about it.
Perhaps all of those women out there wearing “I don’t regret my abortion” T-shirts would volunteer to appear on an abortion clinic reality show and unintentionally help the pro-life cause. We are know that support for abortion would plummet if everyone saw what the this woman pursuing a lawsuit saw.
Absolutely appalling!
I wish there would be an ultrasound before every abortion is done. Only then would a truly informed decision be made.
Pro-abortionists will do anything to protect their industry (yes, abortion is a money-making industry) and this callousness is just one example of that. They are horrified that a woman might change her mind or sue.
Oh, my God.
I hadn’t heard about this story- me and my sheltered life. I couldn’t get to the original article on this, but the letter you linked to and quoted gave me a pretty good idea of what happened. It want to throw up.
The thought of any abortion makes me want to throw up, actually. This does make the people being killed seem more ‘real’ somehow- at least, I hope it does. An abortion is nothing like having a kidney removed- or a wart, or whatever analogy people want to use. It’s taking a life, whether that life is taken before or after birth.
I understand that this was probably very traumatic for this woman, but I agree- she got what she wanted- she just didn’t get sheltered from the ugly details like she thought she would.
Can you even imagine what kind of heartless… I don’t even know what… would go running in and chuck a living human being in the garbage? I really am having trouble understanding so much of this story… again, me and my sheltered life.