Posted on 08/01/2011 4:06:37 PM PDT by wagglebee
July 29, 2011 (HLIWorldWatch.org) - How many genuine rights do people exercise on a daily basis that lead them to feel painfully guilty?
One Dublin, Ireland mother who believes women have a “right” to choose abortion recently gave an inside look at the immense guilt and emotional pain that she experienced when an Irish Mail on Sunday reporter traveled with her to the UK to abort her child.
Lorraine (not her real name), an unemployed mother of two, says she chose abortion for financial reasons. According to the news report of her experience published in the UK’s Daily Mail, Lorraine repeatedly made statements that she believed she was doing the right thing and would not regret her decision, but that she felt extremely guilty about destroying the life inside of her.
“I have no choice,” she said. “I feel terrible about it now but I will get over it, it is the right thing for me to do. I have absolutely no doubts.”
“I’m in a state of abject terror now,” Lorraine later told the reporter. “I’m terrified about going through this. It’s been a rollercoaster – I’ve been sick all night. I’m totally covered in spots. I haven’t slept in weeks.
“I wish I was never in this situation. I don’t care what anyone says – you can’t judge someone in this position until you’re in it yourself. I know I’ve made up my mind but that doesn’t stop me feeling awful,” said the determined young mother.
After the procedure, she added “I feel hugely guilty – guilty for keeping it a secret and guilty for what I’ve done. But I don’t regret it. In time the guilt will go.”
Huge guilt without regret. This is the sort of schizophrenia required to rationalize the horror women suffer in the name of “reproductive health” and “choice.” What is insane is that the abortion industry promotes this schizophrenia in the name of “women’s health.”
Planned Parenthood tells women, “Most women feel relief after an abortion,” and that there is “no such thing” as post-abortion psychological trauma. Even though Planned Parenthood itself admits that “severe emotional disturbance” can follow an abortion in women who have “conflict over abortion,” they completely downplay this emotional harm in an effort to deceive women into thinking that abortion is no big deal.
Marie Stopes International, where Lorraine went for her abortion, similarly tells women that most will feel a sense of relief after the procedure.
Lorraine said the baby’s father, who is no longer with her, supported the decision: “He understood my decision but said he would support me either way but I know he wanted me to have an abortion, he just didn’t say it. No one ever wants to say something like that.”
This statement reveals two maddening clichés that deserve notice: both the unsurprising revelation that a man who used a woman for sex supports her decision to eliminate the natural consequence of sex, and thus his public culpability; and the fact that the other person who shares responsibility for the situation is treated as irrelevant by the advocate journalist. Feminism again exculpates the sort of men that make feminism attractive – men who use women and leave them.
Pro-abortion advocates are constantly trying to convince women who are considering an abortion that there is not a living person inside of them – that the baby is just a clump of cells, or that he is not even human until birth. On its website where it explains the abortion procedure, Planned Parenthood can’t bring itself to mention what every pregnant woman knows: that there is a human being already inside her.
“Either a hand-held suction device or a suction machine gently empties your uterus,” according to the Planned Parenthood site. Gently? And what exactly is removed?
Pretending that there is no baby, and that abortion does not end a human life keeps the abortion industry in business, and for some, it may help alleviate some of the guilt and suffering of having an abortion. But as Lorraine’s story shows, those who understand the reality of abortion, even supporters of the “right” to abortion, realize just how wrong it is, as manifested in Loraine’s severe guilt.
As the Blessed John Paul II tells us in Evangelium vitae, “To claim the right to abortion…and to recognize that right in law, means to attribute to human freedom a perverse and evil significance: that of an absolute power over others and against others. This is the death of true freedom.”
Reprinted with permission from HLI World Watch.
Perfectly stated!
A pro-life demonstrator told me they never had so many women turn away at the clinic as when they’d sing “Happy Birthday”; it was more effective than the bloody images of murdered babies.
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Good tip. Thank you.
“In time the guilt will go.”
God bless her. In time it will get worse...a lot worse. It’s a heavy burden to carry for the rest of ones life.
***A pro-life demonstrator told me they never had so many women turn away at the clinic as when they’d sing “Happy Birthday”; it was more effective than the bloody images of murdered babies.***
That’s powerful! I imagine they sing, “Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday DEAR BABY.” That would make many a mom-to-be realize what she’s giving up.
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I cannot imagine that this is true.
It is more likely that you will never be able to stop regretting what you have done.
Imagine having to live with this for the rest of your life.
She's in for the worst surprise of her life. This will eat away at her in years to come.
This is a complete lie and she knows it.
The big lie. I always want to slug people who say that about ANYTHING. There is ALWAYS another choice.
It may be that a person's decision is legitimately the best one (although not in the case of abortion), but recognizing that you ARE choosing among multiple options is what sets human beings apart from meerkats.
>>A pro-life demonstrator told me they never had so many women turn away at the clinic as when they’d sing “Happy Birthday”; it was more effective than the bloody images of murdered babies.<<
What a brilliant IDEA!!!! I think the next demonstration, I’ll suggest it.
This “financial reasons” is a bogus excuse.
Unless she will be fired from her job for being pregnant, or cannot afford additional food while she is pregnant this makes not sense.
I’m sure there is no law in Ireland forcing her to keep and raise the child. And I believe her pre-natal care and hospitalization for childbirth are covered under under National Health .
Do not let them ever get away with the financial excuse. This is almost never a valid reason, and even if it was, some group would come forward to help you get thru the pregnancy. And you can sue for being terminated from your job.
Also, abortion providers make women feel guilty for feeling guilty with their “most women feel relieved” slogan. This implies that if you don’t feel relieved you are not like “most women” ... ergo, something is wrong with YOU.
Explain how turning in your baby for adoption is a financial burden. Just give the baby up for adoption.
People express how bad they feel about dumping their spouse; or not spending time with their aging, declining mother; or bombing civilians; or something of that sort. Even Anders Breivik said he knew shooting down those teenagers was "cruel" (or perhaps his word was "atrocious"). And feeling bad about it makes the individual feel better about it, even makes them feel more justified in a sense, because it convinces them that they are sensitive, they are not total barbarians, not monsters, not really, not deep down.
Or so they tell themselves.
Excellent insight. I’d never thought of that! Now I’ll have to pay attention to make sure I’m not doing the same thing!
Matthew 16:26-27 26For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul? 27 For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.
Nobody feels guilt for making correct and right moral choices.
She feels guilt because she did wrong and KNEW it.
Until she acknowledges that the murder of her child was indeed murder, she is going to be consumed by guilt. The only way to be free from it is confession and repentance.
That’s a VERY interesting way of looking at it.
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