Posted on 02/27/2006 6:47:50 PM PST by digger48
Feb. 6, 2006 - Aspen Baker does something most women don't do: she talks about her abortion. When she got pregnant at 23 she wasn't ready to be a mother and her relationship was already dissolving. Pro-choice, Baker unexpectedly found herself facing a moral quandary about her decision. I really struggled, she says. After the abortion, she figured she'd be given a list of support groups or even just a number to call. But the California hospital that performed the surgery sent her home with only a prescription.
The procedure left Baker relieved, but sad enough to seek out counseling. What she found, though, were mostly judgmental pro-life Web sites and religious groups. Even when her search led her to volunteer at CARAL, the California affiliate of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, she didn't find many sympathetic ears. The battle to keep abortion legal left no room for emotional turmoil. Neither side of the polarized political debate really spoke to her. Abortion is either tragic or a simple choice, Baker says. But I had a lot of complicated feelings about it. Today, six years later, Baker finally has a number to call. In fact, it's a post-abortion counseling hotline that she helped to create, called Exhale.
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Poor thing, she feels a little guilt for MURDER.
Yeah. Kill a baby and seek counseling. Then spill it all to Newsweak.
The Me Generation personified.
If they offered counseling afterwards they would be conceding that there was something morally wrong with it and that's the reason none of them do it. The left is otherwise obsessed with counseling, support groups and therapy. They'd probably love to have support groups for this too, but their position is that it's just a simple and insignificant medical procedure like having a wart removed.
Insightful comment.
The sound of a dieing conscience gasping for breath...
“In the clinics, of course we want parents involved.”
That is a lie.
They know it's a life and they jump next to the question of can I take care of it? If you can't take care of a human who cannot care for themselves, you don't ponder whether to terminate them. Find a way to care for them or find someone who will. How can a person who knows the baby is sharing their body while it grows make a conscious decision to kill that other human just because it's inconvenient? I can't find any way to justify this.
All over the U. S. A. there are compassionate, non-judgemental, pro-life counseling centers, funded by voluntary contributions from pro-life activists, among which it is my privilege to be counted, and largely staffed by trained volunteer counselors.
Their purpose is to aid in the healing and recovery of the second victim of every abortion, not to further condemn her for her wrong choice and pile on more pointless and non-productive guilt.
I wonder, if they think that abortion is so right, why do they always feel guilty? Of course we know the reason!
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