Moral Outcry

I honestly did not plan on making a part 2 out of this blog post but if you will recall from the previous post entitled “Confused”, a blogger from the Feministe made some pretty staggering comments about the SC legislature wanting a mandatory 24-hour waiting period before an abortion can happen. In her quest to express her outrage at this notion she makes some astonishing admissions concerning women knowing what terminating their pregnancy really means – which is to say that abortion is terminating (killing) a life. I don’t think she meant to admit to that but nevertheless it’s out there.

My reason for posting a follow up post on this is due to the comments left in dissent of SC wanting to pass a mandatory 24-hour waiting period.

A lady writes in and says...

I had two abortions in the great state of NC. The fist time, in my early twenties, they performed the ultrasound without really telling me what was going on. The monitor was right in my eyesight and I didn't realize what was going on until I already saw the fetus on the monitor. It was very traumatizing for me. In my early thirties I had another abortion at a different (and nicer) clinic. I specifically told them I didn't want to see the ultrasound and they said that was fine. However, they didn't do anything to help prevent me from seeing it, I just turned my head and turned back when it was over.
 
The question must be asked… why was it so traumatizing? I have seen pictures of cells, organs, bacteria, a brain, tumors but this has never traumatized me. Was she traumatized because she was looking at the person she was about to kill? Now that is traumatic! But I thought that what was growing inside of the mother was a “blob of tissue” something not alive. I have heard that quite a bit from those that are pro-abortion.

Or how about this comment…

Ugh. I had an abortion in CA when I was 18, and they didn't show me the ultrasound, but the tech had tears in her eyes while she was doing it. Then she gave me my chart (which had a picture of the fetus in it) and told me that I didn't have to look, but I had to take it in the waiting room with me. I ended up looking, and I still got the abortion - it just sucked a little more.
I don't honestly know that I would have gone through with it if I had been forced to stew over that for 18 hours. I REALLY hope these don't pass.

She doesn’t know if she could have an abortion if she was not allowed to have one right away?! Why? Isn’t it good?  Isn’t it basic right of all women? This is the celebration of women’s liberty right? – Maybe not.

Waiting makes you think about the gravity of your situation… this is not an undue burden; it’s more like due diligence.

I know these comments were meant to provide support for the Feministe writer’s outrage but listen to what these women are saying!  “It was very traumatizing for me” and “I don't honestly know that I would have gone through with it if I had been forced to stew over that for 18 hours.”

These women deserve better than abortion, our children deserve better than abortion.