Why is abortion "sad" or "tragic"?

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I pray for all who have experienced this action. I do not judge others, but I pray for them.
 
Fundamentally, we are wired to reproduce.
When anything goes haywire with the process, a sense of wrongness ensues.
 
Premeditated murder of a helpless human being is generally considered “sad” and “tragic” by fellow humans.

In this case it is sad and tragic that a helpless human baby is murdered.

It is also sad and tragic that the baby’s mother, the staff committing and facilitating the murder, and the authorities who legalized it, have convinced themselves that this isn’t a human baby at all and that what they are doing is perfectly okay.
 
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Tis_Bearself said:
It is also sad and tragic that the baby’s mother, the staff committing and facilitating the murder, and the authorities who legalized it, have convinced themselves that this isn’t a human baby at all and that what they are doing is perfectly okay.
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I think it’s worse than that. I think there is a general understanding that what they are killing is actually a human baby, but they have rationalised this and justify this killing to themselves.
 
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TheLittleLady said:
Adoption? Our society looks down on people who “give up their baby”.
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Not just that, but holding out for adoption means 9 months of pregnancy. I had hyperemisis gravadarum in one pregnancy & was on bed rest during another… and let me tell you I could NOT have done that without my husband’s support & family/friends rallying with us. A single mom working 2 jobs with three other kids? How will they and their kids literally survive all nine months?? I am 100% pro life but I think it is appalling that women are left with so little support while the “help” offered is abortion. I’m thankful to help out with my parish outreach that covers MANY costs for women, will furnish their home, has volunteers who drive women to their appointments, etc. But I have to think even that pales compared to loss of income. It’s so sad. Truly tragic.
 
HomeschoolDad said:
If someone does not believe that abortion is murder, the taking of a human life, why exactly would they feel this way?
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I think it’s the issue of a conflicted conscience. There might be something deep down that sees that there’s something wrong with abortion, but can’t explicitly see the gravity of it yet.
 
CTBcin said:
There might be something deep down that sees that there’s something wrong with abortion
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I think such things are written in hearts of all men. Is the wrongness of killing a child in the womb not one of these things?
 
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HomeschoolDad said:
Very often, you will hear even pro-choice people speak of abortion as something sad, tragic, a serious decision, something after which a woman is never the same, and so on.

If someone does not believe that abortion is murder, the taking of a human life, why exactly would they feel this way? If it is a simple surgical procedure, no more serious than (or not as serious as), for instance, an appendectomy, removal of the gall bladder, or removal of wisdom teeth, then what is sad or tragic about that? You have the operation, you recuperate, and that’s that.

Some reasons I’ve pondered:
  • They do not see it as human life, but as the beginning of a potential human life, and it is kind of sad that it will never get to become a human person
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Already refuted by science.
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HomeschoolDad:
  • It is a failure of contraception and a recognition that you cannot always prevent the “life process”, as it were, from beginning
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It’s both.
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HomeschoolDad:
  • The process of pregnancy has begun, with all of the emotions, hormones, and physical and chemical reactions that go with this, and to interrupt this natural process is somehow less than ideal
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One Playing with words won’t refute the evil one knows is there, in ending that life.
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HomeschoolDad:
  • It is a “kind-or-sort-of” pre-human, and even though it “had to be ended” for some supposedly good reason, it is sad in somewhat the same way as a miscarriage is “sad” (this seems to be the Japanese approach, where women will make prayer offerings, or whatever the word would be, to their never-born children)
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From conception, everything genetically necessary for that person, is there, present.

Miscarriage, if a medically caused result, and not caused by one’s own deliberate action, then one is not responsible for that result.
 
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I think I know what you are looking for OP. If a sinful act is intrinsically evil, and the people engaging in it have any sort of conscious at all, they are going to feel very bad about it. The more often people engage in really horrific sins though say murder for instance, the more distance they place between them and God, the less of an impact it has on what’s left of a conscious.
 
A moderator just edited my post here, changing its meaning! Now it seems that I said a thing that I never wrote. This is just unbelievable. It is plain and simple calumnious manipulation. If my post was somehow offensive, then delete it, you can’t just change the meaning! Disgraceful really… I can’t just send a private message, this must be made public.
 
VanitasVanitatum said:
That level of outrage isn’t neccessary.
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Nobody put words in my mouth! Perhaps Americans can deal with it calmly, but not for me. This is unacceptable, it is so so low. I stand by what I said. It is almost criminal to do that, it is not a moment to be mild.

And the worst of it, is that moderators will just delete everything that I wrote and suspend me without saying one word about it. And everybody in this forum will think this is alright because it is not with them. It is suffocating sad. I can’t believe nobody sees the unfairness.
 
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Vincit said:
Nobody put words in my mouth! Perhaps Americans can deal with it calmly, but not for me. This is unacceptable, it is so so low. I stand by what I said. It is almost criminal to do that, it is not a moment to be mild.

And the worst of it, is that moderators will just delete everything that I wrote and suspend me without saying one word about it. And everybody in this forum will think this is alright because it is not with them. It is suffocating sad. I can’t believe nobody sees the unfairness.
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If you act reasonably nothing will happen.
 
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Apparently being a little angry is worst than using your power to manipulate what a person said, change it and hide behind your status as moderator and possibly in the end just erase the whole story and bury it and keep with your life. I am the wrong one, because I got angry, so everything is justified now.

I want to see the moderator man it up and explain publicly what he did.
 
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Jen7 said:
help out with my parish outreach that covers MANY costs for women, will furnish their home, has volunteers who drive women to their appointments, etc.
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That is wonderful what you do for them. Do they have to pay for doctor appointments and for attendance at birth? What options are there for women with low income?
 
Crocus said:
Do they have to pay for doctor appointments and for attendance at birth? What options are there for women with low income?
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I wish I knew those details! I am on the side that donates / collects donations of baby items. I hope there are funds to defray these costs, though!!
 
I love this story about Finland. The health service in Finland gives a “baby box” filled with all necessities to the mother of every newborn, a welcome regardless of income. What a great life affirming gesture!


I wonder if this practice may be at least a little bit responsible for Finland’s having the Nordic region’s lowest abortion rate.
 
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