If you vote for choice you are facilitating abortions
by Breda O’Brien, Irish Times:
Either we become a State that nudges women into making life-ending decisions for their babies or we strive to care for both.
On radio recently a man said he felt that he could vote for abortion because even though he did not approve of it, he would have clean hands.
Other people would be the ones choosing an abortion. He would have nothing to do with it.
This is the triumph of pro-choice ideology. It allows us to conceal from ourselves that when we vote for something, we enable it and facilitate it. But if we vote Yes, we are collaborators and are implicated in the widespread abortion that will follow.
When you normalise something by voting for it, you get more of it. The UK legalised abortion allegedly to solve the problem of 5,000 back-street abortions and now has 185,000 front-street abortions a year instead, the majority of which are on unspecified mental health grounds. Many of those UK backstreet abortions were carried out by qualified midwives and even doctors.
Dr David Paintin, a key 1967 Act campaigner, recently stated that women with serious injuries after illegal abortion were quite uncommon and “that side of abortion has to some extent been exaggerated. Most illegal abortionists in the 1960s were really quite skilful.”
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