The Associated Press Thinks All Women Who Have Abortions Are Delicate, Regretful Flowers
LatestAccording to the Guttmacher Institute, nearly one-third of American women will have an abortion by age 45. According to the Associated Press, that means millions of U.S. women are currently walking around in a daze, their lives destroyed by making the Biggest (and Most Horrible) Choice of Their Life, even if it was for a reason that Mitt Romney would deem legitimate.
The AP‘s Lindsey Tanner writes that “It’s hard to find women willing to talk about it” (“It” meaning the shameful A-word), adding that she contacted eight abortion providers and three groups that work with abortion patients, but still couldn’t find anyone who was willing to speak with her. So she ended up talking to three anonymous women whom she found through afterabortion.com, a nonpolitical online support group for women who “struggle emotionally” after their abortions, and a fourth who considered abortion but didn’t end up having one. “They may not be typical of the majority who have abortions,” she admits. YOU THINK?
One 24-year-old Chicago resident told Tanner that she had a hard time getting unbiased advice about abortion — her doctor at her Catholic hospital wouldn’t talk to her about it, and she accidentally made an appointment at a crisis pregnancy center, where volunteers gave her incorrect medical information and “gave her a tiny doll supposedly the same size” as the embryo inside of her. She ended up terminating her pregnancy because “the man she was in a relationship with pressured her into going through with an abortion,” subsequently developed a rare infection, and lost her job after taking time off work.