By Judie Brown
Planned Parenthood tells website visitors that “the decision to have an abortion is personal, and you’re the only one who can make it.”
The organization then goes on to state:
It’s totally normal to have a lot of different emotions after your abortion. Everyone’s experience is different, and there’s no “right” or “wrong” way to feel. Most people are relieved and don’t regret their decision. Others may feel sadness, guilt, or regret after an abortion. Lots of people have all these feelings at different times. These feelings aren’t unique to having an abortion. People feel many different emotions after giving birth, too.
In other words, in the value-free atmosphere of abortion marketing, anything goes. That is, unless the factual truth is what you seek.
One newspaper in Iowa recently explained to readers that Iowans are attempting to “navigate access to reproductive care under abortion ban, second Trump term.” The gist of this story is that any legal or judicial action that negatively affects access to abortion is a barrier that “will only have negative outcomes.”
Those negative outcomes may be concerning, but so is the absence of any logical comments on the effects the mother may experience after the fact, including the realization that her preborn child is dead.
The truth that grief, not relief, is a reality never seems to come up for the abortion marketeer.
But a recent Elliot Institute study reveals the facts. In a random sample of American women, the researchers report, “Compared to women who had miscarriages or other natural pregnancy losses, women who had abortions had similar levels of grief, depression, and anxiety. But the latter reported much higher levels of guilt, shame, and regret.”
Dr. David Reardon, who authored the study, writes, “Women should be told that if they feel any pressure to abort, or have maternal or moral conflicts with it, negative feelings are more likely than relief. And in many cases, these negative reactions can last for decades. Anything less is deceit.”
Reardon’s wisdom reminds us of another infrequent truth, which is that abortion is built on lies. In the mix of national rhetorical camouflage and brutal reality comes one simple, undeniable fact: Abortion is not a value-free act, it is a deadly act.
Abortion is called a right, but it is better described as a cruel practice that denies nature in favor of ego.
In Illinois, we find that the state house is perhaps setting a new bloody standard for other states, as it “voted 67-39 to advance House Bill 3637, which would put new protections in state law to safeguard health care licenses for providers who offer abortion cares. It also guarantees continued access to abortion medication even if the medication’s approval is rescinded by the federal Food and Drug Administration.”
Not only is this political action contrary to the role of lawmakers, which is not to practice medicine but to secure the safety and well-being of its citizens, it is bizarre. Since when do elected officials know more about healthcare than the folks who spend time and money earning degrees in medicine and pharmacology?
Insanity? Yes, but in this abortion-frenzied culture, it is expected. Without belaboring the point, let us be clear that equating healthcare with killing people is itself a source of grief, not relief.
For over half a century, forsaking science on the altar of choice has been a vocation for far too many Americans. And today we see the wretched results. There can be no genuine relief in our midst when babies die, when women suffer, and when all of us experience the sorrow of failing to insist that abortion is not a right, it is a death sentence.