THE DEMONIC MINDSET ON ABORTION?

THE DEMONIC MINDSET ON ABORTION?

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM - TUES. OCT. 30/18

 

    Theresa Bonopartis is the director of Lumina, which offers hope and healing to those suffering after abortions, and co-developer of Entering Canaan, a post-abortion ministry.

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 "Democrats are amping up their rhetoric on abortion as the fight over Roe heats up. "Safe, legal and rare' is far-gone slogan.

    Abortion ranks up there as an essential American experience, according to Senator Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and he means to jealously guard the "right" to kill and unborn baby the same way Americans hold their constitutional rights dear. Schumer's candid go to block any Supreme Court nominee who does not swear fealty to the cult of death.

 

    Apple pie. Fireworks on the 4th of July. Football on a Sunday afternoon. And abortions?

    "We've had Roe for so long," he told the Marist podcasters in August, "and it's been so much the part and fabric of American life that people think well no matter who's on the court it'll pretty much say where it is. I don't think that's accurate."

      It's hard not acknowledge the dominating role abortion in our society, from the way it's become a litmus test for judicial appointments to billboards straddling highways in the American heartland proudly proclaiming, "People of faith love those who have abortions" and "God loves those who have abortions."

   

 We have "Shout Your Abortion" movement, which tell us abortion is normal and beyond reproach:

"Our stories are ours to tell. This is not a debate."

    We have countries like Ireland - a long-standing bulwark against unfettered access to abortions at any time and any place - taking their cues from American abortion advocates, literally jumping for joy and declaring a "Feminist Christmas" at the repeal of an amendment banning the procedures.

 

    This is not the way abortion was sold to the American public in the wake of Roe v. Wade, and it represents a seismic shift in the way abortion advocates have justified the taking ... With more than 55 million abortions performed in the U.S. since its legalization with Roe v. Wade in 1973, abortion is anything but rare.

     Perhaps that explains the shifting rhetoric on the part of the abortion supporters like SCHUMER who presents the killing of the unborn as part of a tapestry, beautiful woven for the health and welfare of women. One needs only look closely to see the fabric is frayed and torn almost beyond salvaging as countless lives and families are destroyed as a result of abortion.

  

  It's not just women either - the issue impacts men, siblings, survivors of botched abortion procedures and the countless relationships torn apart as a result. Yet the public rarely hears about those consequences. We're led to believe that if we really care for women and their health, we must support abortion. Anything else is deemed anti-woman, even those of us who have experienced abortion ourselves and suffered because of it.

     We're told we have no right to speak out against it. We're denied a platform to acknowledge the psychological, spiritual an sometimes physical damage abortion inflicts on women. We're gaslighted and to told other factors are to blame, including religion, familial and relationship pressure, as if everything but the taking of life itself can inflict trauma.

   

 Men aren't permitted to grieve for the loss of unborn children, yet countless numbers of them suffer and mourn the children they did not have. Oftentimes the regret surfaces after the birth of subsequent children, leaving the parents to face the reality of what was ....

    Marriages and relationships are destroyed. Women who harbor the secret of a past abortion often have trouble with intimacy and feel they can't tell their partners why. After all, they're told, there are no negative consequences from having an abortion.

   

 Surviving siblings come forward as they struggle with feelings of guilt for being alive. They wonder if they were wanted, if they carry the names that would have been given to their aborted siblings, struggling to reconcile how their parents - the people who protect them - could have been responsible for the death of a brother or sister. Many suffer silently, feeling there is nowhere to go with their pain....

   

Try as they might to remove the stigma of abortion, the tattered fabric remains in the lives of millions who have been impacted. Abortion extremists may be successful in shutting down debate in the public arena, but the people whose lives were touched know the truth. .... George H. Kubeck