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Trust Women

January 27, 2012 by Gerard M. Nadal

“Trust Women”

That was the admonishment of the deceased late-term abortionist, Dr. George Tiller. It’s also the admonishment of the rest of the pro-choice crowd. Too bad they really don’t mean it.

Trust women.

Pregnancy resource centers are filled with women who are being coerced to abort their babies, who are desperate for someone, anyone to throw them a lifeline. They’re the lucky ones who find the help and hope. The women entering abortion clinics are not so fortunate. I listened to quite a few of them at the Supreme Court steps this past Monday.

Most spoke of coercion from their boyfriends, other friends, family, and abortion clinic staff. Coercion manifests in a host of ways.

Trust women.

Boyfriends threaten an end to the relationship unless the woman aborts. They become petulant and emotionally distant. In the end, they move on anyway.

Trust women.

Parents use shame and guilt, again the threat of loss of love, of standing, of belonging.

Trust women.

Friends will do pretty much the same. Along with boyfriends and family, they will remind the woman of the education and/or career that she stands to lose by having the baby.

Trust women.

Abortion clinic staff will tell the woman that “It’s just a blob of tissue, just a clump of cells,” for babies at 4,6,8,12, 16 weeks of gestation. They lie about the link between abortion and breast cancer. They withhold vital data on the psychological and gynecological post-abortion sequelae.

Trust women.

Ob/Gyn’s and genetic counselors will use the most base coercive pressures on women whose tests show even the possibility of genetic anomaly or defect. They offer up such sagacity as, “Why would you make your child suffer for the rest of its life?”

Trust women.

Gone in such practitioners is any trace of human compassion. Even for the mother who wishes to keep and love her less-than-perfect child, she is pressured to contract for the murder of that child. Whether or not she aborts, the message from such physicians and genetic counselors is clear and unambiguous:

You did this to your child. This is all your fault.

That’s a nice little burden to pile on the backs of parents.

The etiology matters little, if at all, compared to the opportunity for encountering and growing in love and integrity presented by the special needs of the most vulnerable among us.

Medicine is beset by a metastatic malignancy within its ranks. It’s a perverse and ironic timing for that malignancy, as medicine now has the means to heal, or at least attenuate the worst effects of many genetic conditions. Add to that the daily miracles being wrought by Speech, Physical, and Occupational Therapists, as well as Special Education teachers.

All of this begs the question:

Who are the people that authentically trust women?

The answer is simple:

Those who tell women the truth, offer hope and healing, and respect their autonomy.

Trust women.

I wish the other side would.

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  1. on January 27, 2012 at 12:51 PM Leticia Velasquez

    This modern form of genocide is far more insidious than the death camps of the Nazis; they used fellow prisoners to send victims to their death, but at least they were strangers.
    Rarely did they impose the intense, unjust emotional burden that modern abortions do on the victim’s mother; to make the decision to kill or not.

    It reminds me of the heartbreaking film “Sophie’s Choice”.


  2. on January 27, 2012 at 3:02 PM christianprolife

    Wow, you just spoke exactly what was on my mind. Their “trust women” slogan just makes no sense to me.


  3. on January 27, 2012 at 7:59 PM Patricia Pulliam

    As I stood with the women and men of Silent No More on the steps of the Supreme Court and held my I Regret My Abortion sign I was reminded of Paul’s advice to Timothy. “Do not be ashamed of your testimony to our Lord, nor of me, a prisoner for his sake; but bear your share of hardship for the gospel with the strength that comes from God.”(2 Tm 1:8) Testimony after testimony told stories of shame and guilt and abuse by a system that touts it’s right to free choice but denies the true feelings that a woman has after choosing to abort her baby. “They” are with you right up to the very deed and then the Lie kicks in and they throw you down the stairs. Why I continue to stand and testify is that I like thousand of others have come face to face with a love and healing so powerful we can not keep it to ourselves.
    “I heard the voice of the Lord saying. “Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?” “Here I am,” I said;”send me!” (Is 6:8)


  4. on March 26, 2012 at 3:51 PM Cartwright Johnson

    Ramblings of superstitious troglodytes. I am sorry I found this site.

    Evil, incompassionate, primordial feelings wrapped up in the facetious silk of religion. The same kind of disguise that is used to brainwash grown men to go and kill because ‘protecting our freedom’ is ‘holy’ and ‘noble’.

    I hope this religious nonsense become extinct in a few generations ..


  5. on March 26, 2012 at 11:32 PM Gerard M. Nadal

    Thanks, Cartwright! You related to Ben?



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