Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

The "Abortion Care Network" is hard at work trying to bust the stigma about abortion. Emily Letts whose abortion video has been making the rounds, is one of the winners in their "Abortion Stigma Busting Poetry and Video" contest.

Another one of the videos attempts to downplay abortion by throwing it in, while connecting it to other life events, ultimately reaching what they try to make look like a happy ending.  Instead, it makes you feel deeply sorry for them.

One of the poetry winners was, "Book of Names," by Seth Michelson, who asks how we remember those eight clinic workers who have been killed by antiabortion terrorists: "…what to say to the victims' children, other than your parents died to help women choose to live?"  While I condem any violence, I found this totally ironic given that these very parents made their living off of killing other people's children and no one is concerned with the countless numbers of people they impacted.

I often wonder how much attention we should give to this stuff. While I recognize we need to educate, I think our time would be better spent aiding people in healing and offering help to those in crisis pregnancy situations.  I think the work of this "Care Network" speaks for itself and in the end, hurts them.

Recently I visited a site where they asked women to speak about positive abortion experiences, yet if you read the testimonies, they are heartwrenching accounts, which made me wonder if the moderators even read them.

Most people are not fooled by the horror of someone taping their abortion as a "positive" experience. In our hearts, no matter what the circumstances, people may think it is a necessary evil, but still know abortion is not a "postive" thing, or a thing to be celebrated.

The entire attempt is very sad. They believe they can take away stigma because 1 in 3 women have had abortions, or by speaking out, writing about it, or filming it. Somehow, they believe stigma is ingrained by others and will go away. The truth is, however, that no one person makes another person feel guilty.  Women feel guilty about having an abortion because they know it is not normal to take the life of your own child.

You have to wonder how many films there needs to be and how many poems need to be written before they figure that out.

So, what should we do about Emily  Letts? Nothing. Ignore her publically and pray that she finds her true dignity, value, healing, and peace.

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