Prochoicers Clearly Don't Comprehend Anti-Abortion Bills

From Susan Nielsen at OregonLive.com, "Behind the abortion laws: From bills, a disturbing portrait of women emerges". 

Women sure are impulsive, lying, vulnerable and childlike creatures, aren't they? That's the conclusion I'd draw, if my understanding of women were based solely on anti-abortion bills. 

The key point in the statement above is "my understanding".  Of course, she would think that way.  Fortunately, not everyone thinks like she does.

* Women are impulsive. Half of states now require women to undergo a waiting period before obtaining an abortion. Usually the waiting period is one day. South Dakota just passed a three-day waiting period, the longest in the nation. The implication is that, without a government-mandated waiting period, women would dash into abortion clinics without first weighing the gravity of their decision. 

Waiting periods give women an extra day or so to think about the decision they make.  In cases of coerced abortion, it may give women the extra time needed to change what needs to be changed, in order to protect the life growing inside them.  It may give the the time needed to secure actual help, so that they can deliver their baby, and be able to feed and clothe him/her.  Considering most women will know they are pregnant soon after a missed period, what's a couple of days?  It could be the difference in the life or death of their child.  This is not too much to ask.

* Women are prone to lying. Last week, the Indiana House passed a measure that would forbid most abortions after 20 weeks. A version of it is expected to pass into law. Opponents tried to carve out an exception for victims of rape or incest, as well as for women whose lives are threatened by medical complications. However, the bill's sponsor fended off the amendment by attacking it as a "giant loophole" that women would use to get abortions by pretending they were raped.

"Giant loophole"?  The bill's sponsor is right.  There is no doubt in my mind that some women would lie and say they had been raped, when the act was in fact consensual. 

* Women need things explained to them.  A bill recently passed by the Texas House would require doctors to describe the fetus in some detail to all abortion-seeking patients, including victims of rape and incest. The bill allows women to close their eyes and cover their ears. (It doesn't specify whether women are permitted to say, "La-la-la, I can't hear you.")

This statement makes it clear that women who abort DON'T WANT TO KNOW about the living fetus they are carrying.  It's a lot better for women to be uninformed, to be ignorant about the life of the fetus.

I'll just point out that nearly 90 percent of abortions are performed in the first trimester and fully 95 percent take place during the first 15 weeks. The women who seek them cite a variety of common reasons, including an unsupportive partner and insufficient income to provide a good home. All available research suggests that women rarely make this difficult and private decision lightly. 

The real numbers are staggering.  Did you know 18,000 babies are aborted at 21 weeks or greater?  And almost 80,000 babies are aborted between the 13th and 15th week.  Refer to my recent post "We've Seen the Pictures, Let's Look at the Numbers".  I break  down abortion stats for you in real numbers, rather than percentages that tend to make it look less tragic. 

Yet the composite picture of women found in today's abortion bills suggests a far inferior being, one needing protection from her own rash decisions. This is an ancient stereotype about women, wrapped in a hundred new packages that, at least sometimes, aren't about abortion at all.

Your article, Ms. Nielsen, is nothing more than feminist propaganda, designed to ensure the slaughter of innocent human fetuses for many years to come.