I can't let this letter to the editor in the National Post go without comment. Thanks to Joanne from Joanne's Journey, for alerting me to the letter.
After an abortion, women deserve our support
National Post
Published: Saturday, February 02, 2008
Re: No Birth, No Benefits, John Williamson. Feb. 1.
John Williamson insults Canadian women, and taxpayers, by suggesting Canadian society does not benefit by providing support to women who have just had an abortion.
Many women seeking abortions do so out of desperation and fear. As a medical student, I have been given the opportunity to meet with mothers who have aborted or have miscarried. Both suffer the same. Through the tearing away of the life within them, both carry unspeakable grief and self-hatred for their condition and both wish that any other eventuality be realized to save them for their emotional void. Both suffer, and both deserve the opportunity to grieve.
We need to provide supportive shoulders when tragedy strikes. Shame Mr. Williamson, shame.
Etienne Mahe, MD candidate, class of 2008, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.
Shame Etienne Mahe, shame. You insult women, not Mr. Williamson, he was just reporting the facts. You are equating a miscarriage with an abortion, there is a world of difference between the two.
A women who loses a baby because of a miscarriage, suffers grief, but not self-hatred, she also did not "choose" to lose the baby, she wanted it with her whole heart and soul. She grieves because of the baby she loved from the moment she found out she was pregnant. She never considered it a burden, she considered it the brightest, most important moment in her life.
How do I know? That's what I felt after years of not being able to have a child, and then suddenly, I knew without going to the doctor, that finally, finally, I was pregnant. I would have been devastated if I had lost that baby, luckily I didn't. I can understand the feelings of women that have had a miscarriage, my sister had two, and she grieved for both. A miscarriage is an unexpected and heartbreaking experience for not only the mother but the father as well.
A women who aborts her baby, makes a decision to end a life, it is not unexpected, she knows what is going to happen, she "chooses" to kill her baby. Maybe she is desperate and fearful, but not for the baby, for herself. She takes the easy way out, and I blame Planned Parenthood and other organizations like them, for pushing her to think abortion is the only way. If it is only a blob of cells, why does the woman grieve, and why the self-hate? Feminists need to come clean, they are promoting the killing of babies. My sister would have adopted one of those lost babies in an instant, but the death cult does not tell pregnant teens that they have a way out, they make them think it's their only option.
"We need to provide supportive shoulders when tragedy strikes" Shame Etienne Mahe, shame. A miscarriage is a tragedy, an abortion is a killing. Do not equate the two.
I can tell you that I would never go to DR Etienne Mahe if she ever graduates from medical school, and if that is the quality of student they presently have attending McMaster, shame on them.
5 comments:
Thank you for writing this, Hunter.
The letter in the Post was a slap in the face to any woman who's had to go through the heartbreak of a miscarriage. It was one of the darkest moments of my life.
"I have been given the opportunity to meet with mothers who have aborted or have miscarried. Both suffer the same."
What absolute tripe!!! That this writer would even begin to think that a woman who "wanted" her baby and lost that baby through miscarriage suffers that same as a woman who did not "want" her baby and made the choice to get rid of it is sickening and as Joanne said - an assult to any family who has actually suffered through miscarriage.
Give me a fricken break - once again, the women's movement does not SPEAK FOR ME!!!!!!
Good one, Hunter. Mahe is playing the usual lib/left moral equivalency game.
Check this out Hunter. It's a guide for teens about abortions put out by 'Childbirth by Choice'. They make it sound so innocuous.
Under the question, "What happens during an abortion", the answer is:
To remove the contents of her uterus, the doctor gradually opens the cervix and inserts a small tube. This tube is attached to a machine which gently suctions the inside of the uterus. The doctor then carefully checks the uterus with an instrument, to be sure no tissue remains.
The entire procedure takes about 10 minutes. Afterwards, the woman usually has some bleeding like a menstrual period.
Isn't that nice? ...gently suctions the inside of the uterus...
Nothing to it! So why the need for all this support and benefits?
And they also totally disagree with Ms Mahe on the emotional impact of an abortion:
"How do women feel emotionally after an abortion?
In general, women choose abortion because being pregnant at that time is in some way wrong for them. Most women feel relief after their abortion and are satisfied that they have made the right decision.
Some women feel sad or emotional for a few days or weeks afterwards and may find a supportive friend or counsellor very helpful at this time.
Researchers have found that having an abortion does not make women feel bad about themselves years later."
Relief is what most women feel? Then no need for maternity benefits. They also advise going to Planned Parenthood, but to stay away from Catholic Hospitals, and that the boyfriend has no say in the decision.
Nice find Joanne!
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