| To the Editor: Abortion is not the only pro-life concern |
| Written by Carol Tyson |
| Wednesday, 06 February 2013 10:12 |
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This year I was again fortunate to participate in the March for Life in Washington, DC. I was glad to see there was more media recognition of how many people participated. CNN ran a line at the bottom of the TV screen saying 500,000 people marched. However, some of the stories in the various papers labeled us as an "anti-abortion" protest rather than a "pro-life" demonstration. There was reference to "anti-abortionists" only caring about the unborn baby and not caring about life after birth. You cannot be part of the pro-life movement for long, before realizing that devaluing life at any stage devalues us all. The pro-life movement has recognized the unborn child is not the only victim with each abortion. There are long range studies indicating significant relationships between abortion and medical and emotional problems for women as well as evidence of emotional effects on fathers of aborted children. Also, the abortion issue is not the only concern of those who are pro-life. In the words of Pope John Paul II, we also seek aid and support ".. of the poor whose lives are made difficult, of men and women who are victims of brutal violence, the elderly and the sick killed by indifference or out of misguided mercy." Pro-lifers of various denominations, as well as secular groups, donate time and money to providing services to all of these. In regard to pregnant women in need, pro-lifers may provide free prenatal care, clothing, furnishings, room and board, love and support. Often pro-life doctors volunteer no-cost medical help and pro-life lawyers donate legal aid to help with adoptions. Many of these services are coordinated by numerous abortion alternative centers throughout the United States for free. Carol Tyson Bowling Green |
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Comments
The propaganda claiming that women are somehow damaged emotionally by abortion is simply not true.
The anti-women, anti-abortion agenda will make any claim (like this letter) to try to justify taking away the medical rights of women.
The anti-choice "movement" is dying. Time to move forward. It's 2013 already.
If this letter is lying, where are the facts that support the thought that women ARE NOT emotionally effected?
Perhaps it is time to move forward...and realize that a baby is not a thing, it is a person. A precious child shouldn't be disposable. Perhaps this "forward-thinking" of the right to murder a child has created the mess of the American Society we currently have.
Fetal tissue is not a baby.
Mothers get to choose that. No one else, it's their body. Not yours.
Stop guilt-tripping women.
2. It is NOT just the "religious right-wing" calling abortion murder.
3. "Fetal tissue" is alive with an obvious heartbeat on ultrasound by 5 weeks. I have seen it with my own eyes.
4. In many cases abortion is used as birth control. If a woman doesn't want to have a baby, it is pretty easy to prevent it. It's called not having intercourse. That is the choice- and having to deal with any consequences (as any action has them). This applies to women using it as birth control (it appears that you support that type of use)so don't accuse me of not thinking of those who were unfortunate and had to endure awful circumstances.
5. Your mother chose life for you, rather than counting you out as a "non-viable mass."
If you are angered by women using abortion as birth control, think about the consequences of making it illegal and thus condemning women who need to have abortions for critical medical reasons.
Yes, you are off base.
I never said that the problem is unmarried women having sex, as you assumed. The problem is PEOPLE, both female and male, not wanting to take responsibility for actions they choose to participate in.
I never said I was "angered" either.
You have no idea of what religious affiliation I am (if any, b/c if you did your research you would find there are Atheist groups against abortion also). Nor do you know my gender.
If men could get pregnant they would know what it felt like to carry a child and give birth, thus deleting a woman's ability to use birth to guilt-trip her husband. So, I am not sure about that whole Sacrament thing mentioned.
"a woman's ability to use birth to guilt-trip her husband." ...is the most sexist statement I have heard all week. I truly am disgusted with your sentiment.
It is concerning that you are disgusted by a supposedly sexist statement but you are okay with abortion.
End of conversation for me because I understand that you are argumentative about the issue and will continue judgement upon me rather than the issue.
By the way, I said you were off base because the question was asked of me, otherwise I would probably have never used that terminology.
Peace be with you.
Sexism is not.
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/resources/research-papers/emotional-effects-induced-abortion-6137.htm
2) No rational people have ANY justification against a woman's right to choose and, in fact the only arguments in that camp are religious and also right-wing BY DEFINITION.
3) Choosing abortion as a form of birth control is a MYTH. It is very expensive and is the last resort for desperate women who do not want to be mothers.
4) I am proud that I was CHOSEN and not FORCED like so many of the unwanted FORCED births. Which were you?
It is a woman's inherent choice and right to become a mother or not. It will always remain so.
It does not matter at all what the anti-choice fanatics try to holler about. They are irrelevant more and more every day.
If MEN could get pregnant, abortion would be a catholic sacrament! Stop the hypocrisy.
Don't let this obfuscating letter fool you, folks.
Remember: babies are BORN.
No one kills babies in safe, legal abortion procedures.
Abortion is not murder, it is liberation of LIVING people.
You don't have to like abortion--almost nobody does--to see that it is, in the end, more a religious matter than a legal one and hence should remain legal. As most people in the United States do, even if none of them reside in the Caron household.
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