Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

here is a response I wrote to the Gotham Gazette regarding the article about Spitzers legislation..let’s see if they print it. (sorry for the way it shows..I am having blogging problems….)

Let the whole Truth be Told

New YorkI am not
a NYS judge as Emily Jane Goodman is, the author of the article “Guaranteeing
Access to Abortions in New York, but as someone who has worked with hundreds of post abortive women suffering
abortions aftermath, and having had my own personal experience, I am more than
qualified to address the issue of abortion.

 Like in
most articles of this nature,  anyone who
is not in agreement with unrestricted abortion-on-demand is referred to as an
“antiabortion advocate”, when in fact, it is those who have experienced
abortion themselves who are bringing this issue to the forefront.

 As much
as the pro abortion lobby would have you believe there are no adverse effects
to abortion, the truth is becoming evident as more and more women are speaking
out about the negative impact it has had on their lives, psychologically,
emotionally and many times physically.

 Over and
over again we hear about women having been burdened with “unwanted pregnancies”
but the issue of coercion by husband’s, boyfriends or parents for women who
want to have their babies is never mentioned, nor does the pro abortion side ever
voice outrage about this..

 Repeatedly,
we hear of the coat hanger abortions, and Emily Goodman’s article even
addresses perforated uteruses of years ago, yet she fails to mention the
countless women who have been left sterile or even dead from supposedly “safe”
legal abortion, like in the case of 21-year-old Edrica Goode who became the
third woman in four years to die after an abortion at a California clinic. No
outrage…a deafening silence.

 How
about the husbands and boyfriends killing their pregnant partners, which we
have seen all too many of lately? No outrage…just a deafening silence.

Judge
Goodman bemoans the fact that in

New York State
today, an abortion is defined as homicide when it is performed after 24 weeks
unless the woman’s life is at risk. Is this supposed to be a bad thing, that
the law offers at least some protection to viable unborn children, or are we to
believe Ms Goodman advocates abortion at any time, in any way, at any cost?
What is next…maybe after birth there will be unwanted children. What then, Ms
Goodman?

 Judge
Goodman and Governor Spitzer want us to believe this legislation, “The
Reproductive Health and Privacy Act” is good for women, yet legislation to
provide women with all the facts and dangers about abortion continues to be
denied. It just does not add up. Are they truly for women, or just for
abortion?

 Judge
Goodman ends her article stating “let he wars begin”, I say “let the whole
truth be told”. Women deserve it.