Poor-choicers often claim that having an abortion is not as easy as they'd want it to be. They complain about doctors that suggest women seeking abortions to reconsider. Their websites warn women against Pregnancy Resource Centres which, the poor-choicers claim, provide deceiving information about abortions. And of course they can't stand the pro-life protestors that picket abortion clinics, trying to convince the women going inside, that the unborn is more than just a future child, that it's a child with a future.
Poor-choicers don't believe that the unborn child is a person. They claim that abortion decision concerns only the woman in question, so nobody else has the right to try reconvincing her. Thus, if a woman decides to have an abortion, poor-choicers want her to be able to walk into a neighbourhood hospital and have her child destroyed with no questions asked.
If so, it would be reasonable to believe that when a woman decides not to have an abortion, the poor-choicers would accept that decision and allow her to keep the baby with no questions asked. Unfortunately it happens too often that a woman wants to keep the child but her family members, doctors and sometimes - even the courts push her to abort. It happened in Italy when the parents of a pregnant teenager obtained a court order, forcing their daughter to have an abortion "for her own good". Here's another abortion nightmare, from Australia.
This time the victim is not a minor but a married woman. She wanted to keep the baby but the doctors and her community pressured her to have an abortion, claiming that she was inconsiderate for wanting more than two kids. The woman couldn't fight back because of her illness and suffocating pressure. The people around her knew she wanted to keep the baby. But they made the decision for her.
"The doctor said, 'You need to relax and lie back.' He then said 'This exam will be painful, shall I give you some medication for the pain?' Then he put a needle in my arm.
When I woke up, I realised they had terminated my baby.
Two nurses came in and cuddled me saying 'This is for your good, your child's good, your husband's good.' They gave me chocolates for my little boy. The doctor came out and shook hands with the other patients. I was sobbing. He didn't look at me."
Does that look anything like the right to make decisions over woman's own body that the poor-choicers claim to be defending? What poor-choicers defend is selfishness. They often use expressions like "family planning" or "right for reproductive choice" to hide that. But it doesn't change their true beliefs - that killing a child for the sake of convenience is ok and should be accepted by the society. So if a woman wants to keep the baby - in the eyes of the poor-choicers, she simply doesn't know what's good for her.
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That account from Australia didn't look like an application of the pro-choice philosophy, it was an assault, pure and simple, on someone who couldn't defend herself.
I think the pro-choice rhetoric stands a little exposed with that one.
Those people are not interested in freedom and human rights at all (as they have been claiming all along), but in simply imposing a form of totalitarianism on others with all the brutalites that go with it.
That should be pretty obvious in reading that account.
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