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Indeed, the pro-choice memoir we all need

March 31, 2017 by Andrea Mrozek 3 Comments

I read this piece and thought, yes, it’s the pro-choice memoir we all need right now. I actually agree with the Globe and Mail writer, Denise Balkissoon. 

The hallmark of the abortion movement can never be compassion to the child. It will never be that. Abortions take the life of that child without asking, without concern and without anesthetic. That’s why the start of this column is most curious: 

A pregnant teenager learns that the fetus she is carrying will be born without a functioning circulatory system. At no point will it be able to breathe for itself – there is no way that it can live. The teenager decides not to terminate the pregnancy, telling her obstetrician that she is “praying for a miracle.”

Twenty weeks later, the teenager gives birth. In a new memoir, the doctor, Willie Parker, writes of his “horror” watching the newborn’s immediate, inevitable death. “Born at term, the baby could feel pain … ” Dr. Parker writes. “She must have felt all the anxiety and panic that would accompany suffocating to death.

“In this case, an absolute reverence for life led to a situation that, to my eyes, consisted of nothing less than pure cruelty.”

Pro-choice people ask us to swap the cruelty we can see for the cruelty we can’t see. There is no evidence that taking the life of the unborn child in the womb is less cruel. The result, after all, is exactly the same, it’s just we saw a little bit less. 

When I miscarried at nine weeks, the hands of this new person were clearly evident. Tiny, perfect fingers, thin, transluscent. Real. Hands like the ones I’m using to type right now. 

So bring on the memoirs that describe how and when a man draws his line in the sand about when he can end the life of a baby versus when he can’t. It gets us all talking about the reality that is abortion. Killing kids ain’t no form of compassion–and that’s all the pro-choice movement has. That’s what they defend. I’ll wait for a miracle any day of the week. And hope for a doctor who isn’t negligent in providing pain relief after birth, if such a thing is sadly needed. 

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  1. Taylor Hyatt says

    March 31, 2017 at 9:19 am

    Oh my goodness Andrea. I am so sorry. Praying for you both.

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  2. Melissa says

    March 31, 2017 at 2:29 pm

    Oh, Andrea, how very sad. I’m so sorry. And how brave of you to let us know–so many women keep miscarriage to themselves.

    And notice how the pro choice movement claims to be for the choice of whether or not to abort, but in the case of this teenager they weren’t for choice at all–only abortion will do when there is a sad fetal diagnosis. What a sad scenario.. Their worldview seems to say that it would be better to never live at all than to live and suffer. The child in question knew the love of his mother for an extra twenty weeks. Does that not count for anything? And, like you said, he would have suffered as well had he died in an abortion, but that is suffering that the pro choice camp never takes into the equation.

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  3. Andrea Mrozek says

    April 5, 2017 at 9:42 am

    They do have such a strong sense of judgment for allowing the baby to live and die naturally, don’t they? It’s too much. I believe they have to do that, in order to recast killing as compassion.

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