It does, actually. In Italy, you regularly get women who dither about having abortion until they have come to the legal limit, and then they have to have the baby. But more to the point, I would say that PBA strikes at the point where I find abortion most disgusting: that is, that it is a piece of moral cowardice that refuses to look at its victim. A girl who seriously cannot or will not care for her child has the option of putting it up for adoption: Heaven knows that the world is full of people desperate to adopt a baby. However, this entails looking at the baby in the face. Abortion means the escape from this appalling choice: it means that you do not have to look at the baby's face as you are getting rid of it. Indeed, it appears that in some countries abortions have become rarer since scans have become frequent and women have begun to see their baby on screen. I even heard that some abortion propagandists were worried by this trend and actually proposed to restrict mothers' access to scans to cases of dire necessity.
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Date: 2007-03-09 03:20 pm (UTC)It does, actually. In Italy, you regularly get women who dither about having abortion until they have come to the legal limit, and then they have to have the baby. But more to the point, I would say that PBA strikes at the point where I find abortion most disgusting: that is, that it is a piece of moral cowardice that refuses to look at its victim. A girl who seriously cannot or will not care for her child has the option of putting it up for adoption: Heaven knows that the world is full of people desperate to adopt a baby. However, this entails looking at the baby in the face. Abortion means the escape from this appalling choice: it means that you do not have to look at the baby's face as you are getting rid of it. Indeed, it appears that in some countries abortions have become rarer since scans have become frequent and women have begun to see their baby on screen. I even heard that some abortion propagandists were worried by this trend and actually proposed to restrict mothers' access to scans to cases of dire necessity.