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| New Research Confirms That Abortion Hurts Women |
| 2018-01-25 |
| [Federalist] We know it’s a lie that abortion doesn’t harm women. We know this anecdotally, from talking with mothers, daughters, sisters, and friends who have had abortions, and shared their stories of pain, doubt, shame, guilt, and suffering. We also know it from research that demonstrates quantitatively that significant numbers of women are left clinically depressed as direct result of having had an abortion. As often as we hear these stories, it’s still exceedingly difficult for women hurt by abortion, and their supporters, to get the message out. As Katie Yoder from Catholic Vote explains: "don’t expect the mainstream media to give them a voice. That’s not to say the media shy away from abortion stories. They don’t. But there’s a catch: The stories they share are positive ones. In presenting abortion in a positive light, the media not only dismiss countless abortion testimonies, but also overlook research." The Divide Between Rhetoric and Women’s Experiences Even though more Americans identify as pro-life than pro-choice, and have for a long time, we are still a nation deeply conflicted over the issue. One of the reasons for the conflict is in no small part due to the huge significance placed on having an abortion as the true mark of a woman taking ownership of her body. As if a woman isn’t truly in control of who she is until she’s exercised her right to abort her unborn child. Abortion advocates see abortion as the final frontier for womanhood, the event horizon, the point after which a woman will pass, and never feel the same again. This is why abortion rhetoric must be powerful, because if abortion supporters can continue to distract the post-abortive woman with the idea that she has nothing for which to apologize; abortion is about her reproductive rights; and that it wasn’t her baby, it was a clump of cells, it will be easier for her the next time she choices to abort. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 "women are left clinically depressed as direct result of having had an abortion." I spoke to a young lady who had just had an abortion at the demand of her boyfriend. She had one question for me as she broke down in tears, "Why do I feel so terrible?" She then withdrew from reality for a while. In the mean time, her boyfriend died soon afterwards when a car he was under fell off the jack. Judgment. |
| Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 2018-01-25 11:09 |
| #1 Casualties: one dead, one wounded |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-01-25 10:38 |