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As a follow up to yesterday’s post on the “septic abortion wards” myth, here is Rebecca Downs at LifeNews.com responding to one woman’s story about undergoing an illegal abortion in 1959:

Diana Weiner’s story is personal and in many ways does seem “incredibly scary.” The piece fails to distinguish though how an abortion today is necessary different from those things. While it is no longer illegal to have an abortion, abortion providers will oftentimes cut corners with the law. Just one, but nevertheless troubling example, includes the cover-up of statutory rape. And to touch on the second point, these abortions are often performed in secret, with the underage victim being sent back to her abuser, as Planned Parenthood has done. Abortion is still expensive and also an extremely lucrative business, with many of its providers interested for the financial aspect.

An abortion is also often times “incredibly scary” whether it was being performed in 1959 or just yesterday. Many women are coerced into their abortions, and even if they truly are making their own choice, it is normal for women to have a wide range of feelings about and after the abortion, as even the abortion industry will admit. Certainly an abortion for the forced or even just reluctant woman could be described as “incredibly scary.” The abortion can also be described as being so for the one who is always the victim, the unborn child, especially when he or she is old enough to feel pain.

Diana touches upon how abortion in 1959 was illegal, and thus unsafe. A consideration portion of her piece focuses on women dying from abortion. Prior to the legalization of abortion, however, the procedure was still being performed by doctors. It is also a fact that women still die today, of legal abortions.

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