Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

Ok. I have to admit that one of my pet peeves is the refusal of those who are pro-abortion to acknowledge that there is a community of postabortive people out there speaking out against abortion.  It is as if the proabortion population is deaf, dumb, and blind, refusing to see or acknowledge our existence and insisting on throwing us into the label of prolife. It would be far too dangerous for them to do otherwise.

It is true that now, most of those who are postabortive and  speaking out are probably pro life. That is what happens when the scales fall away and you see and experience the truth. It may take a while (even decades for some), but it comes about as a result of buying into the lies of abortion, then living with all its negative consequences. It comes from knowing the truth.

So, today when I read the Media Matters article,  "It’s About Time Television Turned Away From Abortion Stigma," I thought, “here they go again…yep, that must be it!  TV causes pain for women, TV stigma and prolife people, not abortion itself!

TV? Really? How desperate can you get?

The concept is ridiculous and deeply flawed.  As usual, the actual facts of what abortion is is not addressed in the article.  Instead, abortion is called “a common reproductive choice."  If it is so common and without consequences, why not call it what it is? Why not call it the termination of an unborn child in the womb?

Stigma exists because it is not natural for a woman to participate in her child’s death, and it is far from a “routine medical procedure," thank God!  Seriously, do we really want abortion to become so routine that we lump it in with our yearly physical exams?

The author of the article, Rachel Larris, seems to think if only television would frame abortion as falling within the bounds of normal behavior, all would be well, and no one would feel regret or stigma again.  Instead of abortion being the “tragedy,” we see portrayed on TV, we would hear “positive abortion stories."

No matter what the circumstances or feelings surrounding abortion, is it really ever a positive thing to kill an unborn child? Most women, no matter how much they feel they needed an abortion, or even think they made the right choice, do not think of it as a “positive” experience. I also wonder, why don't we not hear them as up in arms about coerced abortion ?  Countless numbers of women are coerced to have an abortion by boyfriends, husbands, parents, jobs, and even friends. They are deaf to that!

Larris then goes on to tell us that abortion is “safe." I wonder if she has spoken to the families of the women who have died, like Lakisha Wilson, 22, or Jennifer Morbelli, or many others. These were real women Rachel! Or how about those women who have been left barren, or suffered emotionally from abortion. I guess she is deaf and blind to them as well, she certainly is mute. Sadly, the misinformation Larris tries to pin on others is overly abundant in her own article.

“American television has been reinforcing a dangerous right wing campaign to shame American women, Larris states. Those of us who are post abortive and have been there would tell you differently. The pro life movement has not instilled shame, religion has not instilled shame, and certainly TV is not to blame. Shame and stigma from abortion comes from our unique instincts as women and mothers, instincts that call us to protect our children, born and unborn.  

Which brings me back to my pet peeve. Call me what I am, a woman who found out the hard way the truth of what abortion is and does.  No amount of TV shows saying otherwise erase the stigma or change the truth of that.