New Report on Lorena Bobbitt Case Focuses on Forced Abortion

LifeNews.com ^ | January 15, 2004 | Steven Ertelt

[nickcarraway]

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[Eala]

she visited her physician complaining of hyperventilation, cramping and anxiety. Reardon said such problems are common anniversary experiences following an abortion.

Wonder if such is true for miscarriages too...

[Peace will be here soon]

"malicious wounding"

I thought she cut his thingy off.

[NeoCaveman]

Instead, according to the Elliot Institute, Lorena was suffering post-traumatic stress from a forced abortion.

If this is true then, Mr. Bobbitt got of easy.

[Cautor]

That Lorena was really a whack job.

[sinkspur]

The Bobbitts and Buttafuocos: symbols of marital dysfunction.

[GovernmentShrinker]

What a crock of silly psychobabble. These two were both low-lifes from the get-go, and nothing ever changed. Nobody "forced" this tough b!tch to do anything.

[scarface367]

Lol. That's not even right.

[LWalk18]

If she wanted to have her baby, why didn't she just leave him? Grown women cannot be forced to have an abortion.

[Cicero]

It's well established that women who have abortions suffer a lot of mental anguish afterwards, even if they chose to do it. But it's very common for parents, boyfriends, or husbands to push women to have abortions.

Sure, she was a free agent, so she was at least partly responsible. But her husband may well have pressured her in one way or another. And if she felt guilty afterward, that would only have increased her resentment and her tendency to try to blame her own guilt on him.

[LaraCroft]

I know a few women who have miscarried and they all get some 'symptoms' near the anniversary of the tragedy.

It simply must be mental, however, it doesn't mean it isn't true.

I know I only get sick two days a year, the day before and the day of my birthday.

[OldEagle]

Strange case all the way around. It still baffles me. I recall that she bobbed it, took it with her and left in her car. At some point she tossed it out the car window. Some strangers found it and returned it to JW. Now, I still don't how they recognized it.

[Cautor]

;-)

[John Beresford Tipton]

"It's well established that women who have abortions suffer a lot of mental anguish afterwards"

and it is doubly "well established that people who mistakenly read this pyscobabble suffer a lot of mental anguish afterwards"

[Askel5]

=== Grown women cannot be forced to have an abortion.


You don't think they can be forced into such a decision under the weight of fear, "conventional wisdom" and circumstance ... particularly under the threat of being abandoned and "forced" to keep the child themselves alone which they clearly did not Plan to have?

[Askel5]

=== and it is doubly "well established that people who mistakenly read this pyscobabble suffer a lot of mental anguish afterwards"


An abortion which brings to an abrupt halt the very biological process for which the woman is designed and for which her body is marshaling its complete self for protection and nourishment of the unborn child is a very real thing ... regardless the psychobabble by which women are convinced that they can do with "their bodies" what they see fit.

[Lorianne]

If true, explains a lot but excuses nothing.

[LWalk18]

Can women be pressured? Of course. At the same time, she did not have to keep the baby, and she would not have been the first woman to raise a baby on her own. The point is either of those options would have been better than having an abortion. If she could cut off his penis while he was sleeping, then get into a car and drive away, she could have just packed up and left him without doing something crazy like she did.

[John Beresford Tipton]

"An abortion which brings to an abrupt halt the very biological process for which the woman is designed and for which her body is marshaling its complete self for protection and nourishment of the unborn child is a very real thing".....

Which of couorse explains, at least to you, why she cut off his d***