These cases have made me wonder at the thought processes of the women. If a pregnancy is unplanned, it would seem the woman knows this immediately. What happens that a woman carries a baby five or six months…or more, and THEN decides to kill the baby? How is she benefitting from this act? At this point if someone could counsel the woman to continue the pregnancy for a couple more months and provide adoption assistance if she does not want to keep the child, it would seem like fewer women would go through this procedure. As we’ve seen from Gosnell, the procedure is painful, risky and hardly different than carrying the child to full term where the body naturally proceeds to give birth. Forcing a birth with laminaria and in effect yanking the baby out seems far more painful than a natural process.
Have any of the prolife activists or groups done interviews and learned what made women take this step so far along?
Lias