Posted on 01/06/2015 9:23:48 PM PST by Morgana
George Grant told the following story in his book, Grand Illusions.
“Martha Tollesk’s divorce had been final just 3 days when she discovered that she was pregnant. “Everybody told me that I should just go out and get an abortion,” she said. “I’d just enrolled in night courses at the local community college. I had a great new job. My life was coming together finally. And then this!”
Martha’s friends talked her into visiting a Planned Parenthood center where she received a fistful of brochures and tracts on the benefits and blessings of abortion. “It all sounded so simple and so secure. So I went ahead and scheduled an appointment.” The doctor performed a suction aspiration abortion on her 3 days later. “It was incredibly painful. It was just awful. But they told me all had gone well, and they sent me on home.”
But all was not well. After almost a week, Martha was admitted to the hospital with a number of alarming symptoms: swelling of the abdomen, severe pain, nausea, vomiting, rapid heartbeat, chills and fever, and shortness of breath. The obstetricians diagnosed her as suffering from peritonitis – an inflammation of the membrane covering the wall of her peritoneum. Caused by a small uterine puncture during the abortion, the bacterial infection had quickly spread throughout her body cavity. “They tell me I’m lucky,” she said. “But I’m not sure I call 4 days in the hospital and a close call with death lucky. I call it irresponsible.”
George Grant Grand Illusions: the Legacy of Planned Parenthood(Franklin, Tennessee: Adroit Press, 1988, 1992) 71
The first person I ever knew personally that had an abortion ended up with a bad kidney infection that was highly resistant to most antibiotics. She ran very high fevers every day for months, for almost the entire time she would have been pregnant. It was almost as if God and nature were telling her that her decision not to “lose time” out of her life was not going to work out her way after all. She lost all that time anyway, in illness and stress.
It’s just not as easy as the left tries to convince people Sometimes it’s more obvious than others. As far as my friend goes, after she finally recovered physically, I don’t think she ever really recovered mentally or spiritually.
I am cynical enough to believe the sunny POV about abortion of the left comes only half from their agenda - the other half comes from their filthy profiteering off of convincing women to kill their offspring.
Guilt has a unique feature in that if I can convince others to do what I did then I don’t feel quite as bad about what I did!
The activists that are the most angry and adamant about their cause often are trying to convince others so they can believe it themselves!!
These stories are everywhere ,,, just imagine if it was as common to hear a “harmed by abortion...” radio ad for a lawyer as it is to hear a “dogbite” lawyers ad...
priceless quote her child will repeat before her Jesus:
“But I’m not sure I call 4 days in the hospital and a close call with death lucky.”
But she was truly VERY lucky...luckiER.
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