Why does the shame persist and silence pervade in our culture when so many people share the abortion experience?
Could it be....THIS?:
Most of the time these 45 million women are silent.
Most of the time the loved ones who helped them with their abortion don’t talk about it either.
And when women who've undergone abortions talk about how awful an experience it was, they're told they're crazy and to shut up because they're hurting the cause.
In fact, the pro-choice majority is silent.
Sure pal. You're assuming that 45 million abortions means that it's one abortion per woman. That's not the case. In fact, a sizeable number--maybe half-- are repeat abortions.
The polls are pretty consistent. Pro-aborts are on the losing side of public opinion in the United States. There's a reason for the stigma. This man (and I assume it's a man because most of them are men) is in denial. Or just not too bright.
To me, irradicating stigma is the single most important thing we can do for abortion rights in this country.
The pro-aborts will simply never eradicate the stigma of this:
or this:
Even by supporters, by pro-choice people I see this question on their face or experience the silence or separation when I talk about providing abortions.
He means the "eww" factor. Now where would they have gotten that idea? Clearly, they're not fundamentalists. Evidently, they've made up their own mind.
Is this guy naive?
The opportunity to invite women to accept themselves and to live out their dreams is a byproduct of abortion care to some people, but to me it IS abortion care.
Yeah, the fact you actually kill fetuses for a living...that's just a petty detail.
Do YOU even feel the stigma of your OWN JOB? Women don't go to you for values clarification. They go to you because they want to get rid of their fetus!
Sheesh, your own avoidance of the gist of what you do contributes to the stigma. We can all see that you don't want to talk about how satisfying it is to perform the procedure, the killing. It's a lot of blah, blah blah and oh....
I can truly change the world one woman at a time, simply by sitting next to a woman, listening to her story, witnessing her experience and gently nudging her to be all that she can be.
And to the fetus: Tough sh*t. You're the problem. You count for nothing.
Does he not understand the source of the abortion stigma?
I usually don't give advice to my opponents, but since I'm virtually certain they won't listen I'll say this: if you want to eliminate the stigma of abortion, you have to figure out what causes the stigma. It's our value of unborn human life, and the fact that you kill them that is at the source of the stigma. It's not that pro-lifers and other less-than-pro-choice people don't care about women, contrary to what you may think. You seem to think that in order to care about the woman, you must not care about the fetus: that caring is a zero sum game. That's the lie that pro-abortion people have been telling themselves for decades. People can see through that. If you care about both, then you seek to help both (and not kill one in the name of helping the other).
But they don't get that.
But they'll never own up to it.
There will ALWAYS be a stigma to abortion.
Even in countries like Russia and Japan, where there is virtually no pro-life movement, abortion has a stigma. People understand that it involves the taking of human life.
