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Abortion E-cards: When you care enough to send your very best – to someone who has done the very worst
Just when you thought you’d seen it all comes greeting cards for women who’ve had abortions. This one jumped out at me:
Your “loss”? How can an abortion be considered a ‘loss’ when the aborted baby isn’t even considered a growing life in the first place and is instead looked upon as a “parasite” or “blob of tissue”? And furthermore, it’s not a “loss” if you choose to abort it.
In all seriousness, I’m not knocking the fact that women need emotional support after an abortion – in fact, that’s precisely my point: that women are emotionally scarred by having an abortion because they know what they’ve done is wrong. Back on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, I wrote this:
There are conflicting studies out there which show on one hand that ‘most’ women who have abortions are not emotionally scarred by it and feel relieved once it’s done, while others show that having an abortion scars a woman for life, some more so than others. The truth is somewhere in between, but make no mistake about it, the decision to have an abortion is not one that most women make in a snap. They think about it and agonize over it, and there’s a reason they agonize over it: because deep inside, they know it’s wrong. Last October, I blogged about a hospital in the UK that was discovered to have thrown aborted babies into the same incinerator they used to get rid of trash, which outraged not only pro-life groups, but some of the women who had abortions there, who thought it was a horrible way for their baby to be dispensed with, which tells you about how torn women who have abortions are between doing what’s right (keeping the child) versus doing what is convenient (aborting them) and the guilt which eats at them later. Women are reassured prior to the abortion that their unborn child will be buried or dispensed of ‘with dignity’ but why worry about the dignity of the child when you didn’t want it to begin with? If you’ve made the choice to abort your child, you have little room to complain when you find out how it’s been disposed of, but all the same the thought that women could be horrified to find out something like that happened to their unborn baby after they aborted it shows that they know deep down that what they did was wrong to begin with.
If women who had abortions really believed that what was in their wombs was nothing more than a “parasite” or “blob of tissue” they simply wouldn’t feel the level of guilt that they do over aborting it. They also wouldn’t balk at the idea of the “contents” of their womb being dispensed with in an incinerator. So that begs the question: if you know it’s wrong …
… then why do it?
Also, how about a lot more counseling WHILE considering abortion, rather than wait til it’s too late to turn back?
The AP reports on the cards here:
[Aspen] Baker [founder & executive director of "Exhale"] said she hoped popular e-card sites might start offering links to Exhale’s line, which is offered in English and Spanish. In the meantime, she plans to spread the word to boyfriends, parents and siblings through doctors’ offices and the post-procedure information packages women usually receive after abortions.
“We designed them to deal with different peoples’ response to abortion. Not everyone is grieving their loss. Not everyone has a relationship with God. Not everyone thinks it is the best thing,” she said. “We hope the people who send them take the time to think not only about the message they want to send, but about what is best for the person receiving it and what they need to hear.”
Need to hear? Or want to hear? Because as far as this issue is concerned, needs and wants are two entirely different things. But we don’t want anyone to feel ‘guilt’ over the consequences of their actions. They ‘need’ to hear that what they did was ok. It’s all about ‘live and let live’ – for everyone but the unborn.
Hat tip: Allah, who sarcastically wonders why more upbeat cards like this one weren’t included. John Hawkins has created a couple of cards, too. Bob Owens has his own version of an ecard here.
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Wow ST is in rare form today. I wonder what she would do if a friend or even a family had an abortion?Berate her? Call her a baby-killer? I mean WTF ST
? Seriously.
Thanks for this blog (found you via my site meter – someone googled ‘pro-life’). Have posted a linkto this.
Tommy: one thing is to express sympathy, another is to say ‘well-done’ or ‘that’s okay!’ Is it a life or isn’t it? As a priest I know the grief that people go through and the emotional scars they bear for ever. Forgiveness is always possible. But the easy access to abortion is damaging many people (men as well as women) as well as resulting in the deaths of 200,000 babies in England & Wales alone each year.
Tommy,
How about not getting her one of these ridiculous cards.
Seriously…
I’m sorry, but tommy’s comment was just plain stupid. Friends and relatives of ST are likely to be aware of her position on abortion and are not likely to approach her for her opinion on their actions. ST is not likely to bring up the incident with the person who had the abortion. I don’t recall reading anything that would lead me to believe ST would get in someone’s face in such a situation.
Well to start off with I’m glad I found this blog because basically most people eho do comment are not stupid. Regardless of political viewpoints. No joke. The point Father John is a valid one along with of course ST’s. Listen choosing to have an abortion is a really tough decision. Now some of the lovers that I have had relations with have expressed extreme remorese and there have been other lovers who basically had the attitude of well”sh*t happens” you deal with and move on. The Christian thing to do IMHO is hate the sin but not the sinner that’s the point I”ve been trying to get across and yeah you can accomplish that goal while smoking ganja. Stay safe have fun and I wish nothing but success for ST(EXCEPT OF COURSE WHEN IT COMES TO ELECTING ELEPHANTS TO FEDERAL CONGRESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT)
Now some of the lovers that I have had relations with have expressed extreme remorese
Why does that not surprise me?
Tommy, I suspect that our beloved ST would mind her own business, being as she shows every sign of being “raised right.” Such a private matter is not really proper for precanned cards with trite sentiments. If the person asks you for support, you provide it, but you don’t force it on the person in such a situation, regardless of your views pro or con, unless you are a complete ass. Which, unfortunately many on both sides of the debate seem to be.
It shouldn’t suprise you ST. It is serious stuff. My emotions are if you care about somebody you should be supportive. I guess the difference between the left and right is fairly simple………… Youse cats want to interfere what citizens do in the privacy of their bedrooms and youse call it ” being moral” while us on the left interfere with with your checking account and we call it being”socially concious”. So yeah let’s try to have an open and honest discussion of issues ……….hey it’s a start.
“My emotions are if you care about somebody you should be supportive”
But you generally don’t care about someone if you think of them as a disposable one night stand, tommy. Sheesh.
And no, for the millionth time, the ‘right’ doesn’t give a fig about what goes on in other people’s bedrooms as long as it’s consenual between ADULTS. What the right DOESN’T want to see is traditional things like ‘marriage’ and ‘family’ redefined to the point that the words have no meaning, in order to fit some warped social/political agenda from the left. I’ve seen the damage the left can do on the social front (see the Great Society programs and their negative impact for more), and frankly I’m not interested in ‘experimenting’ with our social fabric again when it comes to the fundamentals like marriage and family.
Tommy will continue using that phrase I’m sure ST (the bedroom phrase). He doesn’t ever take in our view points and then expresses what he thinks we think.
Aint that something. Most people want to improve themselves…