{"id":256075,"date":"2021-10-29T12:40:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T17:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=256075"},"modified":"2021-10-28T23:12:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T04:12:52","slug":"abortion-advocate-parents-tell-kids-abortions-stigma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-advocate-parents-tell-kids-abortions-stigma\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-abortion writer: Parents should tell kids about their abortions to get rid of \u2018abortion stigma\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Long-time abortion advocate Danielle Campoamor wrote an op-ed for The Cut this week arguing that parents should talk openly to children about abortion as a positive act \u2014 even encouraging them to tell their children if they had abortions themselves.<\/p>\n

In her essay<\/a>, Campoamor explained how her seven-year-old son learned about his aborted sibling. “He uses the correct terminology for both a penis and a vagina, understands that sex can result in a pregnancy, and, to the surprise of many, what abortion is \u2014 and that his mom has had one,” she said. “The explanation my partner and I gave him was simple enough: ‘Before you were born, mom was pregnant when she didn\u2019t want to be and a doctor helped her not be pregnant. Then, one day mom was pregnant when she wanted to be and eventually you were born.'”<\/p>\n

She further added that they were “surprised” at how easily he accepted the premise of abortion. “At age 4, he simply accepted that straightforward explanation, understanding that mommies and daddies have ‘a big job’ as parents \u2014 to him, it simply didn\u2019t make any sense to force someone to become a mom or dad,” she continued. “That\u2019s the thing about abortion: It\u2019s not difficult to comprehend, regardless of age.”<\/p>\n

Of course, the problem has never truly been that abortion is difficult to comprehend. It’s that abortion is the intentional taking of a human life, and telling children about it as if it’s as simple as “not being pregnant anymore”\u00a0can<\/em> be harmful to them \u2014 a notion Campoamor shrugs off. “[A]rguing that it\u2019s not pertinent, or worse, somehow ‘harmful’ to talk to kids about the commonality of abortion will not only allow abortion stigma to fester, but can leave our own children believing that their bodies are not their own,” she said.<\/p>\n

An abortion, of course, ends the life of another<\/em> human being growing in his or her mother’s womb, treating that human being’s body as if it were a mere extension or organ of the mother’s body rather than as a distinct human being’s body with his or her own DNA and body parts.<\/p>\n