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For women, there is nothing healthy about abortion, whether it is surgical or chemical. Nothing physically healthy and nothing psychologically or emotionally healthy.

How true. I have a good friend who was raped in college. She had an abortion. Now at 52 she still cries about it and she wishes she had never done it. She calls me to come over and stay at her house at night sometimes because she is so depressed and she wants someone there to keep her from doing the unthinkable.

“For women, there is nothing healthy about abortion, whether it is surgical or chemical. Nothing physically healthy and nothing psychologically or emotionally healthy.”

My wife has a cousin who was adopted at birth, about 35 years ago. She has always wanted to know who her parents were, what her background was, etc. - which is perfectly normal. Recently, she and her husband were able (with a little help from me) to locate her birth parents. She contacted them (and they were in college when she was born, but didn’t marry until many years later, and she has a full brother who was born after their marriage), and is going to have a long discussion with them this weekend.

I have noted to her and her husband (both of whom are against abortion, btw) that this reinforces the view that I had expressed to them months ago that her birth parents were decent people and would likely want to speak with her - after all, the mother could have had an abortion. But she (or they together) decided not to do that, to let their child live even if they were not ready to take care of her, and that this spoke to a certain baseline decency and morality. I also pointed out the obvious to them, with an eye toward other members of the family who are quite liberal, that without that decision, she and her children (and their descendants, forever) would never have lived. I look forward to future family meetings when the topic comes up - I am going to utterly slam those in favor of abortion with a very concrete example that is right in their midst.