Abortion "Myths"

[ett]

I was blogging with a friend who said that it was a myth that women suffer physical and/or emotional harm from abortions. How do I answer this person? The Elliot Institute Report says one thing; Guttmacher responds with a justification of abortion. It’s very confusing.

Yes, I just saw this link livescience.com/51559-women-abortions-dont-regret.html

on Google News.

Question I have is, if people can look at Fox News polls and say they are all **** that caters to Fox News viewers, then why should we believe this poll of less than 700 people?

I haven’t looked far into this study, this is just a preliminary question.

 

[weller2]

**Women who felt that their community stigmatized abortion **and women without much social support reported more negative emotions around the procedure.

There.

 

[J_Peterson]

Social conditioning doesn’t absolve you of moral responsibility for your actions. Just ask the Canaanites.

Ask the men who crucified Christ. They were all forgiven precisely because they didn’t know what they were doing.

 

[Rau]

I don’t doubt some women do feel intense pain and distress after getting an abortion, just as surely as some murderers in prison repent and feel grief when contemplating their crimes. That doesn’t make either of them a “victim” of their own crimes. They’re not victims, they’re just people with minimally well-formed consciences and functioning memories who are guilty of the heinous sin of murder. People don’t stop being moral agents just because they don’t possess a Y chromosome.

Don’t confuse the idea of a wrong-doer being herself a “victim” with the notion of having no culpability for one’s acts. Not every woman electing abortion has made a free, deliberate and carefully considered decision. Many are scared, lack support and are misled by a self-centred society. They are victim to these things, while remaining the perpetrator of a great wrong.

Clearly, many women, after the event, find themselves having grave misgivings about the course they chose.

 

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