Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

I have responded to this article but will delay putting it here in the hopes that it will get published…as usual Ms Quindlen cares only about the women who support her pro abortion views and not the 13 who have died from RU486.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/138734.php

Although the "best case" scenario is "that contraception is always
successful and pregnancies are always welcome," that is "not always how
things turn out," columnist Anna Quindlen writes in a Newsweek opinion
piece. She continues that "between the clinic demonstrations, the
political discussions and the imprecations from the pulpit, too many
American women have come to feel that their pelvis is public property."
She adds that it is "no accident" that women who have chosen a new
abortion method in the form of the pill RU-486 "cite reclaiming privacy
and control as the reason."

According to Quindlen, many
abortion-rights advocates viewed the pill "as the answer to the
rancorous, sometimes violent atmosphere that for so long had surrounded
legal abortion." However, after FDA approved the pill in 2000, the
"expected rush to what were called medical rather than surgical
abortions didn't happen," she writes, adding, "The public interest in
RU-486 ebbed — except among women who didn't want to be pregnant
anymore, where it steadily grew." She continues, "RU-486 flies in the
face of anti-abortion orthodoxies, and not simply because some
physicians who have never dreamed of performing a surgical abortion
have no qualms about making the medication available. It counters the
irresponsibility myth, which suggests that women who end pregnancies
are thoughtless, feckless, and have not bothered with birth control or
matrimony, despite the fact that many women who have abortions are
married and were using contraception that failed."

According
to Quindlen, the abortion pill accounts for 14% of abortions in the
U.S. and "demands a high degree of responsibility. A woman has to
ascertain early that she is pregnant and then take charge of the
process herself, choosing to deal at home with the results." She writes
that although in "every new political power shift" there is "talk of a
search for common ground and the future of Roe v. Wade,"
a shift in "party or philosophy cannot change this undeniable fact:
women who do not want to be pregnant will try to end their pregnancies.
… They always have and they always will." She notes that women have
long used extralegal abortion methods, citing the use of the ulcer
medication Cytotec, which has become the "abortifacient of choice among
immigrant women," although doctors say it does not work as safely as
the combination of Cytotec and RU-486, and in some cases women have
been prosecuted for using it. Quindlen writes that "more and more women
are choosing RU-486 because it enables them to take care of their own
business in their own homes," concluding, "If we could travel back in
time, before government was invited into the practice of gynecology, we
might choose precisely this sort of private ritual … a decision that
may be pragmatic or painful or both but is, above all, personal. Never
has the world 'choice' been so clear" (Quindlen, Newsweek, 2/7).

The opinion piece will appear in the Feb. 16 issue of Newsweek.