Wit or Wisdom

A tragic story has emerged, via the front page of drudge, of an artist who hanged herself after getting an abortion. Predictably, anyone, like myself, who says that this is just another sad example of why abortion is damaging and a horrific process, will be branded by the pro-abortion forces as trying to scare women into “not having their choice.” Quite frankly, I’m somewhat proud of being accused of such a thing. Humans are uncomfortable with fear, or rather fear shows that they are uncomfortable, but sometimes, it is a good thing to be uncomfortable. While I’m not trying to make a person’s pain worse, they need to be uncomfortable with the prospect of murder. If someone has no qualms whatsoever about KILLING a baby, then they have deeper problems than a little old pro-lifer like me telling them that there will be negative consequences from their decision. But I digress.

Aside from the fact that science has incontrovertably proven that “fetuses” are real, live humans, there are a multitude of other reasons not to support abortion. One of these is the negative effect that abortion has on those participating in it. There is, of course, the baby, who is dead. But beyond that, there are also the effects on the parents. From an online book by Dr. and Mrs. JC Willke, they quote statistics which say:

“The suicide rate after an abortion was three times the general suicide rate and six times that associated with birth…. the rate for women following a live birth was 5.9 per 100,000; following miscarriage 18.1; following abortion 34.7.”

A study about substance abuse from the Elliot Institute says that…

This finding is based on a national, random sample of 700 women participating in a reproductive history survey.

After excluding women who engaged in substance abuse prior to their first pregnancy, Elliot Institute researchers found that of the women surveyed, those who aborted their first pregnancy were 3.9 times more likely to engage in subsequent drug or alcohol abuse than those who have never had an abortion. These new findings have a high degree of statistical significance, p<.0001, which means that the there is less than 1 chance in 10,000 that these findings could have occurred due to chance.

and…

During in depth interviews with 30 post-abortion women, Speckhard found that 60% admitted to increased alcohol use following their abortion. The majority of the women interviewed specifically attributed their drug or alcohol abuse to stress related to the abortion. Only 10% stated they had already engaged in substance abuse prior to their abortions.

So, clearly, abortion does have a negative effect on the parents, particularly the mother. Here’s one more article in support of my point.

So, apart from suicide risk, we have increased alcohol and drug abuse, increased risk of breast cancer, and other various health risks. As much as Planned Parenthood and all of their minions would like to deny it, abortion obviously has a high likelihood of causing severe mental and psychological damage to the woman who has it performed. The irony is that abortion is supposed to be pro-woman. If you were to describe a phenomenon that increased the risk of breast cancer under any other circumstances to feminists, they would be on it in a second, seeking to destroy it and its harmful effects on the population of women. Yet, because it is abortion, something that is deceptively described as a woman’s “convenience,” this and the other large negatives are simply ignored. Could it be that there is some ulterior motivation involved? A desire to make money… for the “pro-choice” adherents to not be shown blind, ignorant fools?

Aside from these effects, there is the aspect of irresponsibility without having to handle the consequences. There was a time in this country where you were expected to deal with the repercussions of whatever it was that you did. For example, if you were convicted of homicide, you died. I am not advocating the death penalty for women who have an abortion, nor for doctors who conduct abortions under the current laws, but at some point, we have to recognize that not only is no one paying any legal price for a clearly reprehensible practice, but that people are being taught that they can engage in any kind of immoral behavior, or perhaps just irresponsible behavior, with a person of the opposite sex, and then, merely for money, can make the consequences go away. While a child should be looked at as a blessing and not a curse, a child concieved by two people unprepared to the pay the price is also a form of a lesson. To simply allow someone to kill the child is not only wrong, but it is feeding a false perception that consequences can be defeated for money. This message is especially sent to men, who, while they might feel emotional and psychological damage from the abortion, will certainly not suffer physically. The brutal truth, however, is that not only do the consequences not go away; but they take a far more terrifying form.

The efforts by pro-abortion forces to mask the consequences of an abortion and to protect their own selfish interests are reprehensible, and have no place in a society as information-rich as ours. That they have not been exposed more frequently and with greater fervor is amazing to me. Uncomfortable is an emotion that these people certainly should have with the brutal, gory, and woman-damaging industry they engage in.