Feeding the beast…
Thousands of women in the UK have had four or more abortions.
I know, I know. In our pro-life vs. pro-choice age we can’t say anything bad about the mother who kills her unborn child, because she is really the victim in all of this. Just because she is pregnant - in or out of wedlock - doesn’t mean the choice to kill her baby was entirely her fault.
Long ago, in the olden days, it was common to say an unmarried woman who became pregnant and opted for marriage, “had to get married“. Now days, when marriage is out of fashion, many say, she “had to get an abortion“. See how the woman is victimized? And to suggest that the woman acted immorally, or that her dead baby was the real victim, is to victimize the poor mother twice.
Department of Health figures uncovered by this newspaper show that during 2006 more than 3,800 women underwent at least their fourth abortion, including more than 1,300 who were on their fifth or more. Of more than 60,000 women who underwent a “repeat” abortion, almost 15,000 were on their third.
These included 65 women who had their sixth abortion by the age of 30, and 82 girls aged under 18 who had already experienced three, and more than 50 women who had had eight abortions or more.
On Saturday night, campaigners for legal changes expressed shock at the picture uncovered. Dr Peter Saunders, general secretary of the Christian Medical Fellowship, said: “This is just so grotesquely bleak.” He said the situation was “approaching the sorts of things we used to hear about Soviet Russia.
“When you try to imagine a woman who has had eight abortions, or perhaps more, it is absolutely clear that she is using it as a form of contraception.” - Telegraph
Evidently repeated abortions are so much more convenient than carrying a baby to term.
May 18th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
When you do something once, it becomes that much easier to do it a second time, and apparently a third and fourth… If they ever do wake up to what they really did, it’s going to hit them like a ton of bricks.
BTW, that’s a seriously bizarre picture. Kind of reminds me of Goya in some of his darker moods.
May 18th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Melody - I can’t remember where it is from but it is an image of a witch sacrificing and consuming a child.
May 18th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
This is beyond disgraceful. Sad, pathetic, sad.
May 18th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Chesterton predicted all this when talk of “birth control” was heard in his day.
Dale Alquist, American Chesterton Society:
“He (Chesterton)wrote that modern philosophy would lead us to the unthinkable because modern thinking was illogical and dishonest. For instance, he criticised the very term ‘birth control,’ which he said was ‘no birth and no control.’ And he correctly predicted that birth control would lead us to abortion and infanticide.
He (Chesterton, if still alive) would still be writing about everything, but the issue he would tackle head-on would be abortion. After all, it was Chesterton who showed the absurdity of such evils when he wrote, ‘Let all the babies be born. Then let us drown those we do not like.’”
May 18th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Terry, another angle you didn’t mention- for some years now, when a mother commits infanticide (like leaving her baby in a dumpster) the news media gushes about how concerned they are for the poor mother who must be going through so much turmoil. There is scarcely a mention of the poor, dead baby. It’s all about the mother.
May 18th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Thanks SF and PG - I sort of expected to get nailed with this.
I watched the Cider House Rules with a friend last night - and the abortion thing came up, along with orphans and abused kids. My friend wondered why an orphan would ever want to know who his parents were because, “surely abuse is worse than being an orphan. The kid is lucky the parents dumped him.”
“No - not at all” - I told him. “The greatest fear I had when I was little was being taken away from my parents.” As bad as abuse and poverty may be, and as mean and neglectful parents might be, a child clings to his parents - as long as he has them, there is a hope he will be loved, hence, he doesn’t feel that complete and irremediable rejection of being abandoned. Therefore, I’m convinced the pain of being an orphan has to be so much worse. And the pain of abortion - Wow! If only a child could tell us! It has to be indescribable, except for the inhabitants of hell, where rejection, murder, and the complete absence of love is eternal.
May 19th, 2008 at 7:59 am
I reject the notion that the mother is a victim of abortion. There may be coercion, she may feel pressured into it, she may be decieved by others…but that does not make her a victim of it. There would be no abortion if she did not go to the clinic, lay down on that table and let the doctor destroy her very own child. Unless the mother is unable by mental defect to consent, unless she is literally unconscious - she is guilty of direct participation in a grave evil.
May 19th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
The picture is grotesque, and it really makes you think of the horror of abortion–you want to jump in and save the child–if it were only a movie it could have a happy ending–but it’s not–it’s real, what a sad tragedy killing one’s own child.
May 20th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Sanctus,
Not entirely victimless, but pregnancy is a very vulnerable time. Even with a wonderful husband and a secure home, pregnancy is a scary time for me-all 10 of them! Some of the women are probably very selfish, especially the ones who have many of them, but the women I know who had abortions thought they didn’t really have a choice.
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:14 am
Jeannette: I appreciate your point and your sympathies but I also reject your conclusion. Unless absolutely forced, every woman does indeed have a choice. Yes there is temptation - but clearly there is a choice. We all have a choice when faced with temptation. Yes it is scarey to face the responsibility of another child, but its also scarey to do other “good” things such as graduate, get married, change careers - but we get through it. Turning to abortion because you are scared is not a lack of choice, but rather in indeed a wicked choice to end the life of your very own child in order to placate your own fear - an exceedingly evil direct act.
June 5th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Newly, by two months eighteen - no means of support save my parents. Pregnant now for 16 weeks. My parents tell me I WILL go to a clinic and this “problem” will be taken care of.
Choice? What the hell are you talking about? I had no choice!
I am not a victim - I am victorious in Christ who has heard my cries, my sadness and my sorrow over the death of my baby, even though I had no idea what was going on in the medical procedure.
I have not lived one day without sadness since that day - that day that I was forced. Yes, I walked into the “clinic”, yes, I did what the doctor told me to do. I did what was demanded of me by my parents - and I won’t even go into the ways that they encouraged and sexualized me at an early age - there is just not enough space here.
I stopped thinking and feeling that day, Sanctus Belle. I have lived in my own hell for years - hell of drug and alcohol abuse, hell of feeling worthless, hell of being unacceptable to myself.
What CHOICE?
No, Sanctus Belle - I had no choice.
I HATE that I had an abortion - I hate to know that I was part and party to the death of my own child, but I will never understand why there are people who think that I, or any other woman who aborts felt they had a choice.
My son would have been 38 this fall - his name is Matthew Dean and you can read more on my blog about what it is like to be a post abortive woman.
For any of the readers who are post abortive, man or woman, please contact Rachel’s Vineyard, a post abortive healing ministry. RV will help you begin to heal from your abortion if you have not already done so.
Thank you for permitting me to speak out.
To God be the Glory
June 6th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
“And the pain of abortion - Wow! If only a child could tell us! It has to be indescribable..”
Gianna Jessen could tell you.