Simon asked me to write a post defending the pro-life case. It wouldn’t be possible for me to say anything on the issue of abortion that has not already been said a million times, but more importantly, a picture is worth a thousand words. So, I offer these photographs without (much) further comment. These are just pictures of normal fetal development; nothing graphic.
My late husband Robin used to have a saying that he read somewhere in a book about ancient Egypt: “Speak not what you hear, but what you see.” That can be more difficult than it should be, especially when there are those who tell us not to believe our lying eyes. I offer these photographs because I think that they are more powerful than anything that I or anyone else could possibly say.
If you have been involved with an abortion, please know that you are loved and that help and support are available. Project Rachel is one group that offers healing to women and men who have been involved in abortions. I will list more such groups in the comments section.
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Mercy Multiplied is an organization that offers help to women facing unplanned pregnancies: https://mercymultiplied.com/unplanned-pregnancy/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=798834889&group=41397577905&loc=9001707&device=c&utm_term=pregnan
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Project Rachel’s website can be found here: https://hopeafterabortion.com/
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Kop khun krap, Judy, so much for taking up the challenge.
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Anytime 🙂
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I had various arguments about this on R>. It seems to me, If you see abortion as a sin/crime, then the woman who chooses to abort Is the prime sinner/criminal. People would always respond, oh no! She is “sick” she needs “treatment”. I don’t get that. Nobody is forcibly subjected to abortion in our country. Also: oh no! She didn’t know what she was doing! Um…..Is she, like, compos mentis?
I am extremely irritated by BOTH factions:
Pro-choice? #metoo, but you had plenty of “choices” before you found yourself 5 months gone.
Pro-life? Then why have any exceptions for rape or incest?
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Hello, Hypatia 🙂 I want to respond to your comment, but I am tied up until later on tonight-will comment then 🙂
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Ok, I am back now 🙂 I definitely do not believe that the “woman” who chooses to abort is the prime criminal. I use quotation marks around the word “woman” because most of the “women” who get abortions are under the age of 24, and a significant number of them are teenagers. Besides the fact that they are often in desperate straights, the doctor performing the abortion ought to be more mature than they are, and he is definitely better informed about the realities of fetal development than they are. The “woman” getting the abortion may or may not understand what she is doing, and the abortion industry does everything in its power to ensure that she won’t understand what she is doing. But the doctor definitely knows. He is definitely far more guilty than she is.
Most women who get abortions are desperate and ignorant, to one degree or another. That doesn’t mean that they are sick or in need of treatment: I have to wonder if the words “sick” and “in need of treatment” were used in reference to women who attempt to perform abortions on themselves? Dr Bernard Nathanson, who founded NARAL, later said that the numbers of women who attempted to perform abortions on themselves was greatly exaggerated for the purposes of making abortion legal. I believe that any woman who would attempt to give herself an abortion with a coat hanger is in fact sick and in need of treatment, but most women would never do that: even back in the day, very few women did that.
Hypatia, you ask if women who get abortions without fully understanding what they are doing are compos mentis. They have been brainwashed. I grew up with girls who were raised from the cradle to be pro-choice. Some of them went on to have abortions. They knew little or nothing of what they were doing: all they knew was that pro-lifers were very mean religious fanatics who wanted to oppress women. It bears repeating: they were under the age of 24. They were doing what they had been raised to do, and they were also doing something that was totally legal. I don’t blame them for that. I blame myself for not having succeeded in convincing them, but I was also under the age of 24, and they pretty much dismissed me as having been brainwashed by my parents. The Catholic Church would refer to this as “Invincible ignorance” and the Catholic Church does believe that someone who is in a state of invincible ignorance is pretty much innocent.
As for exceptions for rape and incest, I don’t believe in them; I don’t actually know any serious pro-lifers who do, but most Americans only support abortion in cases of rape and incest. Very few abortions are performed because of rape or incest, so the thinking is, fine, lets make abortion illegal except in cases of rape and incest, and we can have that conversation at a future date.
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