“they destroyed their child to be because they couldn’t handle it somehow”
I think that instead of being a last resort for a medical emergency (which I personally don’t agree with either), abortion has been dwindled down to nothing more than a form of birth control for a lot of women.
I knew a coworker once who had already had 6 abortions and was on her way to her 7th and wasn’t embarrassed or bothered by talking about it either. I asked her once why she didn’t take the pill. She said “I tried the pill but it made me gain weight”. No regrets, no guilt, no nothing. Just looking for the next party to go to and the next cowboy to jump in bed with.
Tragic but so very much the story with so many young women nowadays. But, in this sexualized society where “anything goes”, it’s not surprising. They can’t see the beauty in the life they are carrying, only the lifestyle burden. No faith, no hope, only self indulgence.
That’s disgraceful. But I was thinking specifically about women who abort “damaged” fetuses.
I’ve seen it first hand, if a child is somehow damaged in the womb, many OB’s will encourage the mom to get an abortion, some because of liability issues. And they’ve got family and friends all piling on “You can’t deal with this child”. Many of them don’t understand what Down’s really is. They just fear a horribly retarded child.
Then to see this capable woman cuddling her adorable baby on TV, many have to think, my God, I could have done that too. Guilt guilt guilt. I’m weak. Or I’m selfish. Or anger, like I saw on DU. “She should have aborted the tissue!”
I personally know three women who were told to get abortions by their doctors, because of x-rays or pills or such. All three had normal children.