Posted on 11/17/2014 1:30:02 AM PST by Morgana
Abortions in cases of rape or incest. It’s the ultimate question used to justify abortion wholesale in debates or to trip or pro-life candidates into somehow making them extreme because they favor protecting unborn children from abortion even in the most tragic of cases.
But what is the real and actual impact of abortion on women who are victimized by rape? Doesn’t the abortion help make the rape “go away?” Wouldn’t having a baby somehow remind the woman of the rape every time she looks at her child?
And what about very young girls who are raped? How can the be expected to have a baby?
Lesley McAskie, of Great Britain understands these questions all too well — as she was raped when she was a 13-year-old and had an abortion.
“My abortion affected my life for 37 years,” she says. “I got over the rape but I never got over my abortion experience”.
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Here’s more on her story:
Raped at the age of 13, her parents took her from Northern Ireland to England for an abortion. Aside from that one conversation, just before going in for the abortion, she received no other information.
“I was given no counselling beforehand. I was given no counselling after it”.
As a consequence, the abortion experience still casts a long shadow over her life. But her first-hand experience also makes her well placed to offer advice to women considering abortion in any circumstances but especially following a rape.
She says: “Think twice. Don’t go into having an abortion because it’s a quick fix – it’s not. That abortion experience will stay with you for the rest of your life. It will haunt you”.
“If a woman finds herself pregnant as a result of rape, she really needs to have some care. She needs compassion, she needs counselling, she needs a great deal of support. She doesn’t need another act of violence in abortion.”
As well as seeking views on allowing abortion in the event of rape, the Northern Ireland Department of Justice is recommending that abortions are allowed where the unborn child does not have a ‘viable life’.
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Similar to many stories on the PASS forums.
It is my personal opinion the mild psychosocial problems many american women experience is related to them killing their own children in the womb...
“It [abortion] will haunt you”.
This is said by a woman who had an abortion to rid herself of the problem of an unwanted child.
So in kikat world, a thirteen year old is already a woman.
The article does not give me the impression that she freely chose to kill her child. Her parents probably pressured her into it, probably to save them from shame and embarrassment.
I remember reading a story where a 12 year old was pregnant because of incest. Her parents went to a judge to get an order to “terminate” the pregnancy, which makes me think the 12 year old was unwilling. By the time the parents got a legal order to have that baby aborted, she was nine months pregnant. I can’t help but think of the psychological trauma that poor child suffered, and continues to suffer if she is still alive.
Even those who choose to kill their own kids—usually because using contraceptives is just too inconvenient—show signs of psychological damage. It manifests in various ways.
It makes no sense that rape can be cured by an abortion. It only makes the attack into a tragedy.
Pray America is waking
This is a fairly common response.If honestly polled, rape victims might well turn out to be overwhelmingly against abortion. That would include those who have had abortions and those being forced into the procedure before it is done to them. Many feel that the baby is the only thing they have that is theirs. Many are not comfortable, to say the least, about responding to that violence by murdering a third party.
Have you no words of condemnation for the man that raped her OR the parents who pressured a scared, traumatized 13-year-old to have an abortion?
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