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I adore golden oldies. A song I find charming is the 1965 classic, \u201cWhat the World Needs Now is Love,\u201d by Jackie Deshannon. The famous lyrics read, \u201cWhat the world needs now is love, sweet love, it\u2019s the only thing that there\u2019s just too little of.\u201d<\/p>\n

When it comes to love, our world is suffering from a massive deficit. Along with that huge overarching need, there are many others. I’ve spent time working with the poor in the nations of Guatemala, Nepal, and Mozambique. My global wish list would include the things I desire all humans to have: clean water, nutritious food, a safe environment, and homes to call their own.<\/p>\n

When it comes to something our planet has \u201cway too much of,\u201d I think of abortion. Abortion is an act absent of love. From gendercide<\/a> in India, to forced abortion<\/a> in China to America\u2019s 40th<\/sup>\u00a0year of legalized murder, we’ve lost an entire generation. That\u2019s why I find it shocking that people out there are still fighting for more.<\/p>\n

Pro-choice activist and \u00a0New York Abortion Access Fund board member Steph Herold recently tweeted<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Abortion shouldn’t be “rare.” It should be accessible for anyone who needs it.<\/p>\n

Steph also tweeted a thank-you to \u00a0Tour\u00e9 (co-host of MSNBC’s “The Cycle\u201d) for his\u00a0ridiculous\u00a0comments<\/a> on abortion. She wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Thanks @Toure for having the courage to say, \u2018thank God for abortion[.]\u2019
\n<\/s><\/a><\/s><\/del><\/p>\n

\"Steph

Steph Herold<\/p><\/div>\n

Herold\u00a0is considered to be a \u201creproductive justice\u201d activist. That\u2019s a hip way of\u00a0referring\u00a0to a person who supports the termination of fetuses. In 2010 Steph wrote the phrase, \u201cI had an abortion\u201d in a hashtag on twitter. She encouraged women to use it to tell their abortion stories. Tweets popped up with people proclaiming the ways in which abortion had made their life better. Not all stories were happy, however. My friend and Silent No More speaker Kelly Clinger<\/a> tweeted, \u201cI had an abortion and I hate myself.\u201d Her painful story of having two abortions caught the attention of 15,000 readers in a 24-hour period.<\/p>\n

Steph is unapologetic in her support of abortion. She founded the website IamDrTiller.com<\/a>\u00a0to honor the late-term abortion doctor and provide a space for abortion providers to speak.\u00a0On her Twitter account, she writes<\/a>, \u201cI talk about abortion all day and every day.\u201d As I read through her writings, I even got the eerie sense that she loves abortion.<\/p>\n

Steph\u2019s work is troubling. I think it\u2019s important for women to share the ways in which abortion has affected their lives. My concern lies is in the framing of the discussion. Is abortion really a positive<\/i> choice women should be proud of? I\u2019m not interested in shaming women who\u2019ve aborted. I just want more than a one-sided picture of what post-abortive life looks like. Talking about positive abortion experiences is like looking for healthy\u00a0romantic\u00a0experiences on the\u00a0TV\u00a0show “The Bachelor.” The men and women gush about being in love, but it\u2019s hard to believe. The brokenness is bare for any with eyes to see.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve stood outside enough abortion clinics to know women\u00a0aren’t\u00a0skipping inside. There\u00a0certainly\u00a0aren’t skipping out after. Getting an abortion isn’t a trip to the spa, nor is it a Disney World vacation. It\u2019s a life-altering decision that thousands of women suffer from for the rest of their lives.<\/p>\n

What about the women and men who insist that abortion was a positive experience for them? Tour\u00e9 claims<\/a> that abortion was there to save him. He writes:<\/p>\n

I thank God and country that when I fell into a bad situation, abortion was there to save me and keep me on a path toward building a strong family I have now \u2013 and I pray\u00a0that safety\u00a0remains in place.<\/p>\n

How do we respond to their assertions? First we must earnestly pray with compassion. I love the saying, “But for the grace of God, there go I.” We pray for hardened hearts to open and blinded eyes to see. Tour\u00e9 aborted a baby with a woman he knew was “not the one.” Later, when he married, his wife became pregnant, and he went to an ultrasound appointment with her.\u00a0He shares<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It was a thrill to watch that boy grow inside her, but I must admit during that second trimester as we watched him move around on 3-D sonograms I saw how human and they were my life long belief in abortion rights was \u2013 let’s say \u2013 jostled.\u00a0It was life colliding with belief system. I had to rethink my position, but in the end I remain committed to being pro-choice because I cannot imagine arguing against a woman’s right to control her body \u2013 and thus \u2013 her life.<\/p>\n

\"Tour\u00e9\"

Tour\u00e9.<\/p><\/div>\n

This is heartbreaking. Tour\u00e9 had a moment of revelation, and he rejected it. Truth pierced his heart, and he reasoned it away. Perhaps he feels his current success justifies the termination of his child. It never has and never will. Tour\u00e9 may have gained a strong family with a woman he considers “the one,” but he destroyed the life of a “one” none will ever know.<\/p>\n

It’s hard to hear stories like this, but it’s reality. We have to accept the fact that some people don\u2019t believe that abortion is wrong or has negative consequences. I had a women brazenly tell me she had six abortions and it\u00a0didn’t\u00a0bother her at all. We can think women like this are hiding their pain, and they very well may be. Yet we have to acknowledge that some people are legitimately proud that they chose to abort. An example of this is comedian Chelsea Handler, who laughed about her abortion one moment<\/a> and defends<\/a> it the next.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, just because someone isn’t\u00a0repentant over an act, that doesn’t\u00a0mean that the act\u00a0isn’t\u00a0wrong. People shoplift, hit their spouses, take drugs, drive drunk, and don\u2019t have a problem with it. Most of us live by our own\u00a0definitions\u00a0of right and wrong. This is why we need laws to protect ourselves from each other. Laws and the punishments for breaking them help to restrain human wickedness. Martin Luther King, Jr. couldn’t convince the world that racism was wrong, but he did help get laws in place that protect people from it. This is where we must focus our fight for the unborn. They are little humans who deserve legal protection.<\/p>\n

Look at slavery in America. Do you think\u00a0slave owners\u00a0were jumping for joy when the\u00a0Emancipation\u00a0Proclamation\u00a0was passed? Slavery was still a justifiable\u00a0business\u00a0in their eyes. Slave owners didn’t just lack remorse for\u00a0their actions. If it was up to them, they would have continued to enslave humans for years to come. Same goes for Nazi leaders in Germany. If the Allied\u00a0soldiers\u00a0didn’t come, the death toll would have continued to rise. Even if Roe v. Wade<\/em> were overturned tomorrow, abortion doctors would still think it’s acceptable to slaughter children for a living.<\/p>\n

Steph Herold and Tour\u00e9 can encourage women to be proud of their abortions all day long. Lack of sorrow over wrong actions will never make those actions right.\u00a0Justifying\u00a0abortion will never make abortion okay. Women can proclaim from the rooftops that abortion made them better, smarter, wiser, etc. Their\u00a0proclamations\u00a0don’t make any of those things true. Fathers can pay for abortions and deny their God-given role to protect the most\u00a0vulnerable\u00a0among us. They are only fooling themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

One day, the truth will be revealed. There will be a time ahead when our nation looks back and truly wonders what we’ve been celebrating. God have mercy on us.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"10-weeks-abortion\"<\/a>

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