{"id":23377,"date":"2012-11-12T14:19:37","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T19:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=23377"},"modified":"2012-11-12T16:56:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T21:56:38","slug":"personal-tale-of-abortion-regret-puts-right-to-choose-in-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/personal-tale-of-abortion-regret-puts-right-to-choose-in-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal tale of abortion regret puts &#8220;right to choose&#8221; in perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><a href=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/law-books.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18811\" title=\"law books\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/law-books.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Today, LifeNews brings us a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2012\/11\/12\/regretting-my-abortion-i-wish-i-didnt-have-the-right-to-choose\/\">heartbreaking personal story<\/a> from a woman named Kathy, who shares the loss and regret she feels from her abortion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The truth is when I was 19 years old I got pregnant. Upon telling my parents; they decided that I would get married. We began to plan a very quick wedding. The boy I was dating at the time turned out to be abusive. He was from an abusive home and had his father had brutally beaten his first wife in front of her two sons. The first time this boy threw me to the ground while I was pregnant I knew there was NO WAY I was going to allow this cycle to repeat. I broke off the engagement and began looking into adoption. I was only 19 and I knew I wasn\u2019t ready to be a mom. When I told him I wanted to make an adoption plan, that I knew that was the best choice for us and the baby, he became very angry. Threatening, yelling, and screaming, he told me no one would EVER take the mother of his child or his child away from him. He wouldn\u2019t allow it \u2013 that we WOULD be together. I became scared. Fear set in like I can\u2019t even begin to explain. I realized that I could be a victim of abuse or I could save myself and my unborn child and choose to make this all disappear. I told him I had a miscarriage (which is what I told everyone else too).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kathy\u2019s experience left her with a very different take on the \u201cright to choose\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I wish like HELL I didn\u2019t have the right to choose that day. I wish there had been counseling. I wish there had been adoption agencies out there trying to reach the youth. I wish THOSE things were easy access; NOT Planned Parenthood. I wish more than anything, ANYTHING, I could have taken away MY right to choose and allow my baby to have their right to choose life. I wish there was support out there for girls like me. And maybe there was\u2026but Planned Parenthood was easy to find. Abortion is easy. Walk in, walk out. Done. Pregnant. Not Pregnant. Simple. Except\u2026it\u2019s NOT that simple. They forget to tell you about the rest of the story.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is they don\u2019t tell you about the memory you live with for the rest of your life. For awhile I was able to forget. I had to suppress the memory in order to survive MY right to live. But slowly the memory began to resurface. Back to the room\u2026back to the smells\u2026back to the empty eyes of broken women. Back to the face of the man that literally sucked life out of my body.<\/p>\n<p>Abortion is not about choice. It\u2019s about selfishness. It\u2019s about desperation. And I can say that because I have had one. I have walked a mile in those shoes\u2026and it\u2019s a mile that never ends.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kathy has touched upon one of the biggest reasons why \u201cright to choose\u201d is so lacking as a defense of abortion. Any participant in the debate understands the idea that one\u2019s rights do not extend to deciding other people\u2019s rights, but we don\u2019t always think fully about why the law takes such decisions out of people\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf men were angels,\u201d James Madison <a href=\"http:\/\/www.constitution.org\/fed\/federa51.htm\">says<\/a>, \u201cno government would be necessary.\u201d People aren\u2019t angels. Our knowledge is limited, our perspective is narrow, and our judgment is susceptible to an array of fears, emotions, interests, and biases that can pervert our reason and morality. The human mind\u2019s ability to rationalize is truly staggering. We can say what we know would be the right thing to do in a given situation, and we can hope we would be strong enough to do it, but we can\u2019t know for certain that we wouldn\u2019t give in.<\/p>\n<p>The entire point of living under law is that we shouldn\u2019t trust ourselves with power over the fates of others (beyond a select few extreme circumstances, like self-defense against an attacker). In those cases where we are least likely to make a just decision, we submit the choice to an independent, impartial authority. As John Locke <a href=\"http:\/\/www.constitution.org\/jl\/2ndtr02.htm\">explains<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To this strange doctrine, viz. That in the state of nature every one has the executive power of the law of nature, I doubt not but it will be objected, that it is unreasonable for men to be judges in their own cases, that selflove will make men partial to themselves and their friends: and on the other side, that ill nature, passion and revenge will carry them too far in punishing others; and hence nothing but confusion and disorder will follow, and that therefore God hath certainly appointed government to restrain the partiality and violence of men. I easily grant, that civil government is the proper remedy for the inconveniencies of the state of nature, which must certainly be great, where men may be judges in their own case, since it is easy to be imagined, that he who was so unjust as to do his brother an injury, will scarce be so just as to condemn himself for it[.]<em> <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Modern liberalism justifies its infringements on individual right and private property on the belief that people cannot be trusted to voluntarily fulfill their obligations to their fellow man. Yet when it comes to abortion, they not only allow, but celebrate individuals disregarding the most basic obligation of all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since when are we allowed to &#8220;choose&#8221; to kill another?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":18811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Personal tale of abortion regret puts &quot;right to choose&quot; in perspective - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/personal-tale-of-abortion-regret-puts-right-to-choose-in-perspective\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Personal tale of abortion regret puts &quot;right to choose&quot; 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