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 The central argument for those individuals and organizations that promoted the legalization of abortion on demand was “We won’t go back,” meaning to back alley operations which they illustrated by graphic pictures and stories of “coat hanger” abortions. We were told that safe and legal abortions would put and end to these risky behaviors.
What has happened instead, is the face of abortion was commandeered to represent a clean, safe, sterile “procedure” that harms no one, physically or mentally. Abortionists were portrayed as compassionate health providers who cared deeply about women and their lives.
This marketing strategy has changed the public’s perception of abortion, making it more acceptable in society. In fact so much so that there is increased pressure on women, especially on young women and girls from their boyfriends and even parents, too seek an abortion as it is now an accepted viable alternative to carrying a child full-term. This includes surgical abortion methods, and the newer legal methods of drug-induced abortions as well, that are really throwbacks to the poison methods practiced for centuries.
In copy-cat style of chemically-induced abortions, there is a story out of Wisconsin that says rural teenage girls are using livestock drugs meant for bovine breeding to end their unwanted pregnancies.
The veterinary-prescribed prostaglandins are ingested and do indeed evacuate anything in the womb. But the drugs can be deadly. Strong enough to force an evacuation of anything in a cow bed, imagine what they can do to a female body. Sold for around $16 for a small bottle, they’re cheap and relatively easily available, but in humans they could cause excessive hemorrhaging, infection if the tissues aren’t fully cleared from the body, blood clots, heart attacks, and constricted bronchial tubes, a serious complications for asthmatics.
Keep in mind prostaglandins are used in non-surgical legal abortions. The drug Misoprostol contains these prostaglandins and has been suspected in causing deaths in mothers during abortions, and when the abortion was incomplete, severe birth defects in the babies. It is coupled with other drugs in the infamous abortifacient RU-486 which also has a bad track record when it comes to adverse side effects and deaths.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services says they know of no such documented incidents of teens using the drugs to induce abortions. But the American Veterinary Medical Association says it has, from the state of Delaware. The AVMA has posted an advisory on their website cautioning farmers about properly locking up the drugs. Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin says if the story is true, “It’s disturbing.”
Why should this be disturbing to PP? Oh, because they’re all about safe surgical and medically- or chemically-induced abortions, right? And they’ve had no deaths resulting from any of their procedures? Or is it because they’re just not getting their piece of the pie?
No one should be surprised by this new tale. After all, culturally we have devalued human life so much that pregnancies are ended via surgery or drugs in matter-of-fact terms. We’ve promoted this. Our President is all for it. And since we’ve taken away the rights of parents in many states to be notified about a young girl’s pregnancy, we’ve sent a message to these girls that to keep promiscuous behavior and the end result a secret from their parents is not only acceptable, the adult world sanctions it with their blessing.
Legalized abortion has not saved women from unsafe abortions. In fact, the opposite may be true. The black market mentality will always be with us as long we predicate the argument that the killing of the pre-born is safe and legal and approved by society. It is for these reasons that women will continue end their pregnancies by killing their unborn children in secret and with more inexpensive methods.
Changing the legal status of abortion has done nothing to make abortions safer, or reduce the abortion rate. It has, however, exposed a whole new segment of society, the young and very vulnerable and impressionable teens, to new and serious dangers — on several levels.
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