From pro-abortion to pro-life

Friday was the March for Life, marking the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.  To mark that occasion, read Frederica Mathewes-Green writing about why she changed her views about abortion, going from strongly “pro-choice” to strongly “pro-life.”  Read her whole essay, linked after the jump.  I post a powerful excerpt.

From Frederica Mathewes-Green,  Roe v. Wade — Abortion Won the Day, but Sooner or Later That Day Will End:

This issue gets presented as if it’s a tug of war between the woman and the baby. We see them as mortal enemies, locked in a fight to the death. But that’s a strange idea, isn’t it? It must be the first time in history when mothers and their own children have been assumed to be at war. We’re supposed to picture the child attacking her, trying to destroy her hopes and plans, and picture the woman grateful for the abortion, since it rescued her from the clutches of her child.

If you were in charge of a nature preserve and you noticed that the pregnant female mammals were trying to miscarry their pregnancies, eating poisonous plants or injuring themselves, what would you do? Would you think of it as a battle between the pregnant female and her unborn and find ways to help those pregnant animals miscarry? No, of course not. You would immediately think, “Something must be really wrong in this environment.” Something is creating intolerable stress, so much so that animals would rather destroy their own offspring than bring them into the world. You would strive to identify and correct whatever factors were causing this stress in the animals.

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HT:  Mary Moerbe (the first post recommended from my Facebook page!)