Whether or not one supports abortion as a course of action involves, more often than not, a clash of world views. Today I stumbled upon this pro-abortion site, which reviews an abortionist’s book, asking the question of why an abortionist does–I’m trying very hard to be polite here–what they do. Here’s one answer given:
The act of abortion is to remove an unplanned and unwanted pregnancy. The abortion is to erase the mistake they [the couple] have made together and get on with their lives.
Now abortion doesn’t achieve that goal. But another problem today is that abortion is not being done “to erase mistakes” but rather as a routine, as birth control, when other methods fail. (Saying so, in particular on air will get you into a special kind of trouble.) But check out this “abortion blog” and you’ll get a sense of how this couple was going through normal life, didn’t make anything they think even approximates a mistake, and will go on doing precisely what they were doing before, after. I’m amazed at the banal and superficial attitude the girl has toward so much (not limited to her unborn baby).
The clash of world views continues.
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Tanya adds: I’d love to know how people can call it “eras[ing] a mistake.” The “mistake” in this scenario would be the sexual act of which the result was pregnancy. The zygote, fetus, baby, or whatever you want to call this new life is not the mistake. He or she is the natural consequence of a sexual encounter.
And if abortion is such a great “eraser” why do so many women regret having them afterward? What a narrow view on life this abortionist has.
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I read as much of the abortion blog as I could bear, and I found it very sad. This young woman is basing so much around “having sex with her boyfriend”. Sex makes babies! She writes of continually breaking into tears “for no reason” and “chalks it up to hormones”. (It may have something to do with getting a living human being ripped out of your body).
I found her blog exemplified your continual assertion that abortion does hurt women. It is misogyny pure and simply, as her blog shows she arranges her life around her boyfriend’s sex needs and desire for no responsibility. I found it a sad reinforcement of the view that female empowerment and pro-life views go hand in hand – whether men like it or not!
I read only the first page of entries and comments of the “abortion blog,” but what struck me was how any emotional reaction (and both the blog’s author and some of her readers have had several) was attributed to “hormones.” Apparently, it is inconceivable (or at least politically incorrect) that sadness, tears, or anger following an abortion might be due to a sense of loss, and can/should be attributed only to fleeting chemistry.
Attributing women’s emotional expression to hormones is a misogynistic tendency, and it’s sad that we’ve learned to do it to ourselves so well. It minimizes and dismisses the woman’s feelings and prevents her from trying to examine why she feels this way–if the sadness isn’t real then your boyfriend shouldn’t have to put up with you whining about it, right?
I read a few entries from that blog. I couldn’t read any more. Her attitude disgusts me, but at the same time, I almost feel sorry for her. I can’t help thinking she’s in denial, and this is going to come back some day and be even more painful for her.
Elizabethon 17 said: “…female empowerment and pro-life views go hand in hand”. This is absolutely contradictory to logic. Pro-choice is female empowerment, since it gives women the right to choose what she would like to do with the blastocyst/embryo/fetus. I can understand that it’s an emotional decision, but it is still a decision!
Perhaps if these women weren’t ostracized for having abortions by certain groups than they wouldn’t be in such emotional turmoil. When you berate and insult someone for a choice they made, they’re obviously going to be stressed emotionally.