Ron Collins
Jul 25, 2017 · 2 min read

The study was bitterly denounced

I’m not familiar with the pathways of policymaking in other countries leading to any current climate of wide-open abortion availability, but what the Roe ruling amounted to in the US, was the first in a series of policy coups (which went on to include VAWA) which essentially placed feminist dogma in the position of dictating a mindset to entire industries.

Roe v Wade has proven a towering object lesson in unintended consequences, but probably chief among them has been this very atmosphere you allude to in the UK, an apparent belief that “if we told women the whole truth about what is being done to their bodies by these procedures, they might not want to keep having abortions, which of course would equal misogyny…”

So not only the potential physical risks to a woman’s reproductive system and her future childbearing capacity, but the likelihood of post-traumatic and other psychological fallout, from having taken a living organism and destroyed her or him within the very system her body was created to nurture and protect into autonomous post-natal life, or any other potential after-effects of the procedures, are simply not supposed to exist. Whatever is going on with a woman after an abortion, she is apparently simply misreading the politics of the situation if she thinks anything is not quite right within herself.

So this means, no trauma or grief counseling because she isn’t supposed to be feeling any, and no follow-up on how her reproductive system has endured the thing because nothing could possibly have gone wrong, and how dare she or any clinician think anything might have?

I think this bizarre rationale has a lot to do with why today so many women are straining to project their abortions in some positive (or even celebratory…) light to a mostly-indifferent public who regarded it as yes, her business to choose, but no, none of anyone else’s business to have how she feels about it afterward advertised at us. It is as if such women are looking for a validation from wherever they can find it, of something they are not at ease with at all within themselves, but also feel they are supposed to be.

In an age of epidemic approval-seeking, I find this macabre seeking of public approval for having decided to end the life of one’s own child, both the scariest and the saddest of them all.

    Ron Collins

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    Recognizing that women have no need of any special status granted them by men is as respectful of women’s abilities as it is protective of men’s