They’ll have to do better than that.

There are a number of pro-abortion sites on line with stories of women who had illegal abortions and the horror stories that went with them. Here is an excerpt from one of them.

In 1953, the day after college graduation, I was married. My husband and I both were about to begin our teaching careers, I was a going to teach 3rd grade and my husband was going to teach high school history and science. We were still newlyweds and we could not afford a baby yet.

Sorry but it doesn’t exactly evoke the emotions the writer expected in me. First of all, this wasn’t a young working class couple, but a couple that had college degrees and professions. That they were just starting out, like thousands of other couples doesn’t exactly make me think, “poor things the only option of course was abortion!” Instead it makes me think of my grandparents, neither of whom had college degrees and came from working class families, who managed to run a farm and my grandfather took on extra welding jobs to support his wife and two children. Or my in-laws where my mother-in-law only had an 8th grade education and my father-in-law came back from WWII with severe injuries. Yet he too found work with General Motors while my MIL found creative and practical ways to make the paycheck stretch enough to raise 9 children. She sewed, she cooked, she cleaned and everything she cooked was suitable for left overs. Some of it was a big hit that my band still remembers fondly (like stewed tomatoes on toast) and some he remembers for other reasons (tuna pizza during lent)but they were all fed, and loved, happy and healthy and grew up to be responsible adults. And these couples did it through the depression, not the booming 1950s!

I guess in other words, there wasn’t a fear of doing what needed to be done for the good of the children and the family when it needed to be done.

It also makes me think about this Evelyn Ryan and Pat Connicker, both moms-of-many who through hard work and self-sacrifice raised their families through hardships and sometimes illness, but for whom abortion was never an option.

SO while I’m sorry for what Mrs. Jones went through with her illegal abortion, I don’t find her reasons compelling or persuasive. If it is the pro-lifers they want to convert, they’ll have to do better than that.

Hat tip TWA

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