Abortion hurts women in a profound way
By Maggie DeWitte, Executive Director Pulse Life Advocates
Since Roe v. Wade, abortion has taken the lives of over 65 million of our preborn brothers and sisters. But also, in the wake of that tragedy, it has wounded 65 million women and countless men, siblings, grandparents and other family members. Abortion hurts women in a profound way, and it has contributed to a society of walking wounded; women hurting and in need of healing from their abortion decision.
We need only talk to those involved in post-abortive counseling to understand the deep physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual pain these women endure because of their abortion decision.
A women chooses abortion for a variety of reasons. But more times than not, she feels she has no other option. She doesn’t have the support of her family, is lied to by the abortion industry that this is a quick fix with no consequences.
In many instances she is pressured by the father of the baby.
SHE is a victim of abortion.
SHE needs our compassion and support.
SHE needs help and healing.
Pulse Life Advocates has been a leader in the pro-life movement for over 50 years. Each and every day is spent trying to create a culture of life. It’s to save babies AND save mothers. We love them both!
The pro-life movement is pro-woman. As such, we will not support any legislation that would criminalize women.
We need to advance laws that protect unborn children and do not harm women, which is why Pulse Life Advocates withdrew support for HF2256 upon learning that it criminalizes women.
[Pulse supports women before and after a baby is born. Mark your calendar for our April 14th WOMEN OF WORTH Music Event and help us help even more babies and their moms.]
Hi Maggie,
This is what I wrote to Steve Holt today:
Hi Steve Holt, Iowa House of Representatives,
I understand your arguments that from a practical, strategic perspective that this bill, if passed at this point in time,it would be immediately challenged,blocked in the courts and likely undermine other pro-life efforts taking place.
Sadly, we live in a time where all people of child bearing age have been educated and indoctrinated to believe the lie that human persons growing and developing in their mother’s wombs are not really the same as those of us who have been born. This lie has resulted in the majority of people rationalizing that intentionally killing them is not the same as killing you or me. Many people will draw the line that abortion should not be lawful based upon some arbitrary criteria ( detectable heartbeat, looks like a baby, current viability, 20 wks gestation, third trimester, etc).
What cannot be honestly argued against is that this bill recognizes the scientific fact that at the moment of conception a new human person begins their life here on this earth, temporarily residing in the womb. This bill finally protects that tiny person’s, (commonly known by the biological names zygote, embryo, and fetus), God given unalienable right to life that our founding fathers articulated in our Declaration of Independence.
This debate about the right of the preborn to life reminds me of the civil rights movement against the evil of discrimination against people based on skin color. I vividly remember Martin Luther King’s “I have a Dream” speech.
I have a dream too…that one day our little “sisters and brothers” who are at the beginning of this life journey will not be judged as subhuman because they are temporarily residing, growing, and developing in the womb. I have a Dream that one day the idea of intentionally killing human persons in the womb will be as unthinkable and abhorrent as intentionally killing born persons.
There is another bill that would require public schools to educate children on the science that human life does begin a conception. It is a start at teaching truth. I hope you will consider advancing that bill.