Frederica Mathewes-Green, author of “Real Choices: Listening to Women, Looking for Alternatives to Abortion,” a book published in 1997 that gives an inside look at the reasons women chose abortion said: “No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.”
Now, almost fifty years after Roe, our country is filled with women who “gnawed off” their own legs and believed the promise of freedom, empowerment, and success. To them bringing abortion back to the states says it was all a big mistake.
No leg, no child.
No wonder they’re angry!
So, here we are sixty-three million abortions later. For decades women have been told abortion is their “reproductive right,” that it is “women’s healthcare,” that it will solve the problem of an unplanned pregnancy so all children can be “wanted.”
Young women who have grown up with Roe honestly believe that they’re powerless and can’t be successful if they don’t have the option of “terminating” their “unwanted” pregnancies. The mere thought of Roe’s reversal prompts panic. They think carrying a baby to term is the end of their lives, hopes and dreams.
On May 3rd, after the draft leak, Westchester County New York’s District Attorney tweeted, “My 14-year-old daughter was sitting on the couch this evening and crying,” “When I asked her why, she said ‘What’s happened to our country?’ And told me she feels powerless. I was not prepared for that.”
Think about that: A 14-year-old girl with her entire life ahead of her believes Roe’s absence renders her “powerless”.
These young women have grown up not knowing anything else. They have been led to believe abortion is a choice “between a woman and her doctor” or that all women make the choice freely. It’s all been repeated so many times like a mantra that they genuinely believe it. They are terrified.
This is the kind of terror that arises when someone feels their survival is at stake, like “an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg”. They are angry and crazed, but their anger is misplaced. The abortion itself is the trap.
One only has to read New York Governor Hochul’s “Nation Leading Legislative Package to Protect Abortion and Reproductive Rights for All” to understand that it is not about the safety of women at all, but the protection of abortion itself.
This is no surprise to those of us who have experienced the devastation of abortion. Many of us have been speaking the truth of abortions harm only to have the adverse effects we have lived with denied by the abortion industry.
A recent USA Today article, “Abortion Does Not Need to be Traumatic” by Jane Ryu states: That the abortion procedures do not cause pain and trauma and that abortion does not increase mental health risk, but being denied one does.
Governor Hochul and her cohorts make it seem as if women always freely choose abortion. This in itself is evidence of how disconnected they are from the reality.
Pregnant women are often abandoned by those who are supposed to love them, coerced by boyfriends, husbands, or parents. Some have been physically injured and live with the fact that the baby they aborted was their only one. Some suffer psychological consequences for decades, and yes, some have even died from “safe, legal abortion.”
Those who promote the extreme abortion agenda have never done anything to protect these women, in fact, they have actively fought against any such legislation.
After the decision yesterday I listened as speaker after speaker spoke to the danger women are now in because of Roe's reversal. Yet, they promote abortion by non -physicians and have no problem with virtual abortions or pills by mail.
One read of Hochul’s legislation, (which she touts as “leading legislation for the country,) and you can quickly see that the real concern is not for the women but for the protection of abortion and those who perform them.
One piece “prohibits medical malpractice insurance companies from taking any adverse action against an abortion or reproductive healthcare provider who performs an abortion or provides reproductive healthcare that is legal in the state of New York on someone who is from out of state.”
They are also actively seeking to harass Crisis pregnancy centers that provide , much needed assistance to women who choose to keep their babies. “Legislation S.470/A.5499 directs the New York State Department of Health commissioner to conduct a “study” and issue a report examining the unmet health and resource needs facing pregnant people in New York…” What resource are they referring to? Abortion.
Our program of healing for women who have experienced abortion sees between 100-200 new people each year for what these pro abortion extremists continue to deny.
Radical feminists go out of their way to describe their abortions in positive terms, trying to convince others – and themselves – that they’re unaffected. They protest, they justify. “Abortion is healthcare!” “Abortion saves lives! Abortion at any time without exceptions. No apologies!” , I get it.
Many on both sides have fought this fight of abortion. Our country has lived with Roe and as Justice Alito stated: “ far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have inflamed debate and deepened division.”
As a country we have denied the walking wounded and stepped over those laying on the ground who are suffering silently, gaslighted, and afraid to talk about their experience because it results in judgement from both sides. Many have been radicalized in an attempt to continue to justify- you cannot look t such a horror as abortion if you don't know God. Perhaps it is time to listen to them. A few months ago, in her anger, one of these women wrote "They talk about the babies all the time-what about us?"
In the end, abortion is the total exploitation of women, the killing of an unborn baby and the ultimate failure of love.
We all deserve better than that!
