More are grasping abortion’s emotional wounds
By Gayle Atteberry
January 27, 2008

“I believe we can all recognize that abortion in many ways represents a sad, even tragic choice to many, many women. ... This decision is a profound and complicated one; a difficult one, often the most difficult that a woman will ever have to make.”

These are the words of Sen. Hillary Clinton, spoken to the New York State Family Planning Providers on Jan. 24, 2005. Similar words have been spoken by many politicians and activists to support and protect abortion.

It is difficult to process the contradictions of those who defend abortion. In one breath they say abortion is not about the life or death of a baby; it is simply a woman’s choice. They say pregnancy is just excess cells — “products of conception” — that can be legally discarded. Yet in the next breath they make statements like Senator Clinton’s.

So it must be asked, why is abortion sad? Why is it tragic? Why is it profound and complicated? Why is it often the most difficult decision a woman will ever have to make, if it is indeed only excess cells within the womb? the rest image

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