I do acknowledge abortion is the killing of an innocent life. One that hasn't gotten started. It's sad. But forcing a woman who does not wish to carry to term to do so is also the killing of an innocent human life, or at the very best the gross interference with an innocent human life. As for demonstrators, the violent ones may well be i…
I do acknowledge abortion is the killing of an innocent life. One that hasn't gotten started. It's sad. But forcing a woman who does not wish to carry to term to do so is also the killing of an innocent human life, or at the very best the gross interference with an innocent human life. As for demonstrators, the violent ones may well be in the minority--I haven't checked statistics, and I'm not in favor of violence--but I'm telling you the stories I heard from women going to the abortion clinic with an escort and hearing people shout "murderer" and duck as they threw things. I'm no fan of the "shout your abortion" crowd either--an abortion is a sad, but entirely private affair between a woman and her physician. Offering a woman an alternative is a wonderful thing to do--I admire those who provide baby car seats, diapers, formula. I object to those who tell a woman she must take this alternative and she may not decide to abort. An alternative with no other choice is not an alternative--it's compelled choice. Women who don't want to abort, whose boyfriends and families push them to do so, should be offered safe passage to obstetric care and a family who wants to adopt. But women who do not wish to go forward with a pregnancy and who know they wish to abort should be left unmolested to proceed--not harassed with pleas to change their minds. When pregnancy is tinged with fear, motherhood is tinged with fear too.
I do acknowledge abortion is the killing of an innocent life. One that hasn't gotten started. It's sad. But forcing a woman who does not wish to carry to term to do so is also the killing of an innocent human life, or at the very best the gross interference with an innocent human life. As for demonstrators, the violent ones may well be in the minority--I haven't checked statistics, and I'm not in favor of violence--but I'm telling you the stories I heard from women going to the abortion clinic with an escort and hearing people shout "murderer" and duck as they threw things. I'm no fan of the "shout your abortion" crowd either--an abortion is a sad, but entirely private affair between a woman and her physician. Offering a woman an alternative is a wonderful thing to do--I admire those who provide baby car seats, diapers, formula. I object to those who tell a woman she must take this alternative and she may not decide to abort. An alternative with no other choice is not an alternative--it's compelled choice. Women who don't want to abort, whose boyfriends and families push them to do so, should be offered safe passage to obstetric care and a family who wants to adopt. But women who do not wish to go forward with a pregnancy and who know they wish to abort should be left unmolested to proceed--not harassed with pleas to change their minds. When pregnancy is tinged with fear, motherhood is tinged with fear too.