Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

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How men are harmed by abortion (
Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk)

Posted: 2/12/2010
An important but often unacknowledged angle of the abortion debate
involves the serious effects that legalized abortion has on men.

A
recent scandal surrounding John Edwards, former North Carolina Senator
and U.S. presidential candidate, brought this issue into plain view.
Mr. Edwards publicly acknowledged an extramarital affair with Rielle
Hunter in the summer of 2008, a few months after pulling out of the
presidential race. Even after admitting to the affair, however, he
continued to deny having fathered Ms. Hunter’s daughter, Quinn, until
January of 2010 when he finally admitted that he was, in fact, her
father.

A former aide to Mr. Edwards has just published a
tell-all book describing how Mr. Edwards tried to coerce Ms. Hunter to
get an abortion. Commentator Jill Stanek analyzed the situation this
way: “Fortunately, Hunter resisted this all too typical coercive
attempt by a sexually exploitative and irresponsible man to abort his
own baby. Of course Edwards is a pro-abort, which as we see is
incredibly self-serving for men. Edwards was ready to sacrifice his own
baby for political and personal expediency.”

Mr. Edward’s
extramarital activities remind us how legalized abortion has the clear
and pronounced effect of supporting sexual infidelity, providing
“cover” and encouraging men to become less responsible and accountable
for their personal choices. It enables men to justify and get away with
sexual license.

Abortion hurts men in other, more direct ways as
well. The fact that upwards of 3000 abortions occur each day in the
U.S. implies the obvious corollary that about 3000 men lose a son or
daughter each day to abortion. Some of these men may have encouraged or
pressured their partners to abort; others may have strongly resisted;
still others may not have known they were fathers until afterwards.

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