anonymous:
You are a cruel person. When you say that abortion makes a person the mother of a dead child (which isn’t true by the way) that also means that a woman who miscarried is also a mother to a dead child. That is a terribly cruel thing to say.
cultureshift:
While it is certainly true that a miscarried child is dead, there is a vast difference between that child’s natural unintended death and the intentional killing of a healthy viable child by his or her own mother.
This is where the cruelty actually lies. The cruelty in one mother losing a child she desperately wanted to live while another mother aborts her perfectly healthy son or daughter.
Having lost three children to miscarriage, I know the difference.
There\'s a Vast Difference Between Abortion and Miscarriage
How is that a cruel thing to say anyway? I have a friend who’s lost two babies to miscarriage and she talks about them as her children and herself as their mother. On the contrary, it seems an honoring thing to acknowledge her as a mother to two dead children instead of as steril-ishly a person who’s had two miscarriages.