Compare this with the percentage of women who have abortions and
suffer from life-long guilt, drug addiction, alcoholism, depression
and suicide.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/what-happens-to-women-who-are-denied-abortions-95-percent-live-happily-ever
Analysis
NEW YORK CITY, June 14, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) � The New York Times
Magazine will run a story this Sunday with the ominous title �What
Happens to Women Who Are Denied Abortions?� Written by Joshua Lang, a
student in the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program, the story
attempts to answer the question using the �Turnaway Study,� a study of
some 200 women who sought abortions and were turned away, mostly due
to being too far along to legally perform the procedure.
The study was performed by a group of pro-abortion researchers looking
to catalog the negative effects of giving birth to an unplanned baby.
Instead, they found that the overwhelming majority of women who wanted
abortions but couldn�t get them were happy with the outcome.
Here, from the mouth of one of the study�s authors, Diana Greene
Foster, is the answer to the title question: �About 5 percent of the
women, after they have had the baby, still wish they hadn�t. And the
rest of them adjust.�
And here�s an answer from an actual �turnaway� � S., a woman
interviewed for Lang�s piece who was not part of the original study,
but was denied a wanted abortion for being 23 weeks pregnant: �[My
baby] is more than my best friend, more than the love of my life. She
is just my whole world.�
These, apparently, were not the answers Mr. Lang was hoping for. So
rather than write a straight-up article about the results of the
study, or taking S. at her word, he wove her emotional narrative
through a series of quotes from pro-abortion �experts� and emphasized
the �negative outcomes� of parenthood: namely, the sacrifices.
�Being denied an abortion resulted in some measurable negative effects
for S.,� Lang wrote. �She had to give up work and her apartment, and
her precarious finances became more precarious.�
�Given some of the negative outcomes for turnaways,� added Lang,
�Foster�s study raises an uncomfortable question: Is abortion a social
good?�
In order to gauge the true outcome for a turnaway, Lang argues, you
must not ask the woman what she thinks, but rather, compare their
socioeconomic status to women who did have abortions. He quotes study
author Foster, who said, �You would need to look at the people who
managed to get the abortion and find whether a woman who started out
similarly is now in school, building a stable relationship, career or,
possibly, that later she had a baby she was ready for.�
Lang grudgingly admits that women who gave birth after being refused
abortion do, in fact, report that they are happy with the way things
turned out by a lopsided margin.
But, lamenting that someone might use further claimp down on abortion,
he quotes a bioethicist who accuses those women of lying to themselves
and to society.
�Some would use these data as justification to further restrict
abortion � women rarely regret having a child, even one they thought
they didn�t want,� Lang writes. �But as Katie Watson, a bioethicist at
Northwestern University�s Feinberg School of Medicine, points out, we
tell ourselves certain stories for a reason. �It�s psychologically in
our interest to tell a positive story and move forward,� she says.
�It�s wonderfully functional for women who have children to be glad
they have them and for women who did not have children to enjoy the
opportunities that afforded them.��
Lang celebrates the story of a 38-year-old woman , J., who, determined
to abort her surprise baby, suffered through one botched abortion and
drove to three more clinics in three western states before finally
finding someone to successfully perform the late-term procedure. By
that time, she was more than 23 weeks pregnant.
After the abortion, Lang wrote, �J. got a job operating heavy
machinery at a manufacturing plant for $15 an hour. She had been
applying for the past six months. If she had had the baby, she said,
she wouldn�t have been able to take the job.�
In Lang�s mind, operating heavy machinery at a factory for $15 an hour
is clearly a superior outcome to having a baby that might become, in
the words of S., �more than my best friend, more than the love of my
life�my whole world.�
J Young
jdyo...@ymail.com
Honesty. Decency. Integrity