Of our most recent comments, one by reader Christy Knockleby hit on something that I feel needs further addressing. She said:
It seems to me that if we claim the decision is between the woman and her doctor, then it would make sense to let the men off the hook, doesn’t it? Of course they were involved in creating the pregnancy, but if they’re not supposed to be involved in the decision to abort…. why are we supposed to judge them for the woman’s decision? Except of course nothing is clear cut.
Indeed nothing is clear cut. What of the men who suggest, pressure, or encourage an abortion to a woman who decides to carry the baby to term? Chris Rock does a bang up job explaining this reality. (WARNING: This is Chris Rock, people. Be ready for some seriously foul language.) To cut to the chase, jump to the 2 minute mark.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjW4i67YC04]
All humour aside, what guilt does the man harbor, watching this unwanted pregnancy develop into a newborn baby; a doting child? How does that affect the father’s relationship with his child? And with his child’s mother? Statistics suggest that more than half of abortions involve coercion, either by a mate or a parent. Translation: Abortion is not purely a choice between a woman and her doctor.
So should these fathers of potential abortions keep silent? Pro-abortion etiquette would tell us so. One big problem with that: women don’t generally equate a man’s silence with love and support. Quite the opposite.
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What if your husband, as in my case, supported the abortion and even brought you to the hospital. Bottom line. Now they have to face that their future child now is not, or ever will be, born. Men who have agreed with aborting their children, whose natural instinct also is to protect their children, have gone against their nature. We have been married 25 years, we have ignored this mistake in our lives and it is now wrotting our relationship because he agrees with Morgentalers order of canada and it sickens me. I was angry with him and extremely hurt that he took this stance. But after thinking and praying about this, it is becoming apparent that to face the truth of abortion and what we did to our first born, would be, maybe, impossible for him to face? Is this why we as prolifers are facing an up hill battle?