Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

I think I have seen this article before but I think it is worth posting again. It is  written by a man who obviously was conflicted about an abortion he participated in years before. Written from a pro choice view, it is interesting to see how he has fallen into the justification so many women do, and looking for solutions to the pain he is in and how to take care of his "brothers" who are sitting in the waiting rooms of abortion clinics.

The entire site is a source of contradiction to me, although many of his insights are valid and true, his attempts to rationalize are no different then other pro abortion sites addressing abortion.

If you want in-your-face evidence that a good many guys are not "rocks," spend a little time with over 500,000 males annually found in the waiting rooms of the nation's nearly 400 abortion clinics (about half of all abortion-seeking women generally have a man sitting by in the clinic or doctor's waiting room).  And if you want to help move "many" out and into the ranks of most (feeling) men, please join me in an on-going effort to reinvent the clinic experience of the waiting room men."

you can read the rest and check out the site here http://menandabortion.com/index.html

One of the hardest things I find to understand in rationalizing is a statement I found on their testimonies page which is also used by a lot of women. One man states in justifying his abortion:

"I worry more for Sally. I know this is the right choice for her, for me, but most of all for our unborn child."

I can never get how thinking killing your unborn child was a good choice for them.

The chart at the end of the article is interesting. Most described themselves as "supportive". I think that says a lot. Funny thing is, if you asked the women who then regretted their abortion they would probably say they were sorry the man did not do more to stop them. Of course, this fits into the whole confusion of  a man feeling like he has no say, "my body my choice", but then when they allow the woman to decide and then fin dher regretful they turn into the bad guy for not doing more to stop it.

I would love to get these men to come to our next men's retreat where they would learn true peace and come to terms with the reality of their abortions, not the rhetoric of the pro choice movement…

http://www.postabortionhelp.org/Men/men%202010.pdf