| New York Times Article 'Flagrantly Irresponsible' by Eva Marie Stover - Women Exploited by Abortion |
| March 11, 1997, The News Enterprise, Elizabethtown, KY -- Pg. 4A March 13, 1997, Hardin County Independent -- Pg. 9 This letter is in reference to the February 16, 1997 New York Times article entitled "Study Says Abortion Has No Effect on Well-being," found on page A-14. The argument that "abortion does not trigger lasting emotional trauma in young women who are psychologi- cally healthy before they become pregnant" is a farce. The difference between women who anguish over their abortions and those who do not is the difference between the "walking wounded" and the "living dead." Prior to having an abortion, many women (including myself) had tried to justify our "choice" by turning our faces away from the humanity of our unborn children. The abortionists made it even easier for us to choose death for our children by telling us that they were insignificant "masses of tissue." After abortion, we immedi- ately sensed relief because we believed the propagated lie that we could resume our lives as if nothing ever happened. In reality however, abortion had created in us a series of traumatic physical problems (i.e. sterility, miscarri- ages, perforated wombs, loss of other organs, peritonitis and even death from "botched abortion" procedures, ect.) and psychological problems (i.e. rationalization and denial, guilt, regret, and remorse, low self-esteem, depression, despair, feelings of condemnation, feelings of being exploited, fear of punishment from G-d, child abuse, inhibited sexual desire, drug/alcohol abuse, and suicide, ect.). The truth is, many of us were deemed "healthy" prior to the abortion procedure. Although many of us are still rationalizing and palliating our abortion experiences, we will one day have to confront the woman behind the mask of denial. In conclusion, abortion may be considered "legal" in our society, but it is definitely neither "safe" nor "moral;" and to say that abortion does not cause lasting emotional trauma in psychologically healthy young women before they become pregnant is flagrantly irresponsible and asinine. |