Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

Over the past week multiple media outlets have covered the recently published book by Katha Pollitt, “Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights.” An October 16th excerpt, penned by Ms. Pollitt in the Huffington Post, is entitled “The Abortion Conversation We Need to Have.”

Webster defines “conversation” as an oral exchange of sentiments, observations, opinions, or ideas. Sadly, Ms. Pollitt’s excerpt, and I suspect the rest of her book as well, reads nothing like a conversation and very much like an attempt to convince society to go along with her agenda. There is no honest exchange of ideas in which she fairly presents pro-life arguments before skewering them.

Ms. Pollitt tells us,” We need to talk about ending a pregnancy as a common, even normal, event in the reproductive lives of women.” But it is not "normal," regardless of its frequency, and no amount of writing or talking will ever make it so. That is why abortion continues to be such a controversial issue. She tries to justify her position by stating abortions occur worldwide and throughout history. So have rape and murder, but simply because an action is widespread does not make it normal or acceptable.

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