- I never said... — Anonymous, Fri Dec 27 00:57
Anonymous
Re: What disruptions?
Fri Dec 27 00:11:24 2002
You are right that some women find it very healing to try to protect other women. Some women. Not all. If you try to demand, or ask, or prompt women to speak out, then you are using them for your political agenda. We must never do that. If they choose to speak out, that is their choice. If not, we have to respect that. This isn't a debate board. This is a place to reach out to hurting women. Women will have to develop a certain amount of emotional strength before they will speak out. I don't disagree with your goals or, for the most part, with your viewpoint. However, it is just inappropriate to discuss this here, which is why I requested you email the moderator. Don't be afraid of her. She doesn't bite. There are places on the internet where you can harness your zeal in exactly the way you want.
However, you do seem still to misunderstand. Abortion is never safe, because it disrupts a natural process and interferes with the extremely powerful mechanisms in a woman's body to protect her child, and it also disrupts the delicate balance of her hormones no matter how it is done. Insisting that abortionists protect their clients from harm is a very good idea. But don't think they will really do it. They can't. The only way they can protect the women is to stop doing abortions altogether.
And whether or not carrying a baby to term is harmful to a woman's health is an individual matter. It is not meant to be, and if it is, then there is an abnormality that needs to be addressed. It's an apples and oranges thing. It has already been shown that having an abortion is far more dangerous than pregnancy and birth. The problem now is to persuade the media to let women know. If they refuse to do this, and the health organizations refuse to do this, then they are deliberately victimizing women, and that is unacceptable.
