Films taken by anti-abortionists are fueling emotional responses to Planned Parenthood funding. The films are edited to suit their purpose and not necessarily truthful.
If similar horrendous films were taken of the agonizing deaths of desperate women seeking abortions in back alleys when abortions were illegal, those too would fuel emotional responses. Abortion became legal because so many mothers died from botched abortions and their families destroyed.
Fundamentalist conservative religions where men rule and women have no say, would deny a woman’s right to abortion. Their intent is to overrule Roe v. Wade so abortion would once again become illegal in this country.
By denying abortion, women will die. Men who are responsible for the pregnancies will not!
Girls as young as nine years old are raped, impregnated and die because of this religious dogma. The United Nations Committee on Children, in their report on the sexual abuse of children by clergy throughout the world, have pleaded with the Vatican to allow an exception to abortion and to release the names and addresses of all such guilty priests so other children can be protected. They have not complied.
In Paraguay, an 11-year-old gave birth after being raped. The government denied an abortion. This child is just one of hundreds raped and impregnated in that country. Amnesty International said the fact that “she did not die does not excuse the human rights violations she suffered at the hands of the Paraguayan authorities.”
When children are forced to have babies, this is fundamentalist religion at its very worst. A young child dealing with the trauma of having been raped, faces the trauma of months of pregnancy as her stomach swells and if she lives, the trauma of giving birth and being a mother. This shouldn’t happen.
Pope Francis has criticized the church for putting dogma before love and for prioritizing moral doctrines over serving the poor and marginalized.
There is a time for mercy, compassion and abortion to save the lives of human beings.
Gene Proctor,
West Bath
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