PUBLIC VIEWPOINT: Women Never Glad To Have Had Abortion

Thursday, February 21, 2013

I am the 60-year old mother of two adopted children (our two older children), one birth child (our surprise) and grandmother of three.

So, my husband and I are a part of the answer for unplanned and perhaps unwanted pregnancies. I also believe in mercy and compassion for persons who may have made decisions they now regret.

God is merciful and loving and able to bring comfort and healing to those whose emotions may be hurting.

I am challenging/encouraging any who may be pro choice to watch this short video (www.abort73.com/videos/ P20) on the products of abortion up to 12 weeks.

It will be as appalling and heartbreaking as any pictures of the victims of the Holocost. As those were finally seen by the world at the end of World War II, anyone with a conscience was mortified and overwhelmed that one human could inflict those inhumane acts against another. Yet, we, as a nation, have committed over five times as many violent, deadly acts against tiny victims unable to protect themselves.

I have been in nursing as a student and nurse practitioner for 43 years. Let me make one thing perfectly clear, there are some occasions where a pregnancy has to be terminated or the mother and baby will die, such as a tubal pregnancy or an abruptio placenta (the placenta releases from the uterine lining before birth causing hemorrhage). In those situations both will die if nothing is done. This has never been illegal. For those who would argue that these bills would require a woman to carry an already dead baby still in her womb until she went into labor, that is not an abortion. The baby has already died from natural causes.

I have never met a woman who was glad she had an abortion and wasn’t haunted by it. I have also emailed a letter similar to this to Gov.

Beebe encouraging him to sign any and all bills that would help protect unborn babies.

JOAN MCDONALD

Elm Springs

Opinion, Pages 5 on 02/21/2013