January 2021:
In another sinister attempt to make abortion guilt free, anti-Personhood advocates are promoting a recent study showing that a large percentage of women would prefer to kill their child and pretend they did not.
More than 40 percent of women said if they missed their period, rather than taking a pregnancy test, they would be interested in so-called “missed period pills.” They were told the pills would bring on bleeding like a menstrual period but would also terminate a pregnancy. The pills are actually RU-486.
Ignorance Is Bliss
The key point is that they would never know whether or not they were pregnant.
By not first confirming they were pregnant, the process would allow them to kill their child while avoiding “the burden of that knowledge and the pain of self-flagellation [punishing oneself], providing them with a psychological benefit at a time of great stress,” claimed an op-ed in The New York Times.
“That so many women would prefer not to have a test—it was shocking,” according to Wendy Sheldon, the primary author of the study conducted by Gynuity Health Projects. She attributed the results to the “stigma” and “shame” of abortion.
One of the 678 participants said that such a service would be a “psychological cushion” for those women “who may be unsure of their own feelings on abortion.” Another said she thought it would result in “less moral conflict,” while a third said she would feel “less guilty of my choice.”
Another woman told thelily.com she would appreciate the option to “take a pill and put it out of my mind,” adding “it’s kind of a feeling of ignorance is bliss.”
Women Understand Abortion Is Killing Their Child
Dr. Abigail Aiken, an associate professor at the University of Texas in Austin, said the demand for the pills underscores the stigma of abortion. “It’s incredibly powerful. Some women will always shout their abortion, and some people will always want to keep it a secret—perhaps even from themselves.”
Ironically, women taking pills for a missed period is not new. A 1920’s newspaper ad for “Faber’s Golden Female Pills,” claimed: “Relieve suppressed menstruation. Used successfully by thousands of prominent ladies monthly. Thoroughly reliable and safe. Worth twenty times their weight in gold for female irregularities. Never known to fail.”
Georgia Right to Life (GRTL) President Ricardo Davis called such ideas the ultimate in self-deception.” This clearly demonstrates that women know the truth about abortion. It’s a demonic attempt to allow a woman to pretend she did not take a human life.”
Davis noted that human life begins at fertilization saying, “It’s a child from the very beginning.”
Sheldon said the idea for the study came from a policy enacted in Bangladesh shortly after that country’s 1971 war for independence with Pakistan. During the conflict, hundreds of thousands of women and girls were raped and tortured.
In response, the government permitted what it called “menstrual regulation.” It was defined as “an interim method of establishing non-pregnancy for a woman who is at risk of being pregnant.” The rule permitted the removal of the contents of a woman’s uterus up to 10 weeks after her last menstrual period but only in the absence of a pregnancy test.
Not A New Idea
Little has changed in the last 100 years. Many women want to end the life of their pre-born child and take comfort in the delusion that maybe it wasn’t a baby after all.
Abortion advocates have gone from calling a pre-born child “a product of conception” to trying to pretend there was nothing there in the first place. Such attitudes can only be changed by respecting the Personhood of the pre-born child, which is at the core of GRTL’s mission.
GRTL has trained thousands of people to engage friends, neighbors, and students on how to stand up for the sanctity of human life through its Pillars of Personhood program. Please invite us to your church to equip your members. Join us in this fight against evil.
Sources: nytimes.com; thelily.com; bioedge.org.
By Wayne DuBois
Georgia Right to Life
Media Relations Advisor