I Wonder: Miscarriage and Grief  

Posted by Baron Korf in , ,

I was reading a post from the American Papist and it brought back an old question.  I have always wondered: How does someone who is pro-abortion console a mother that lost her child to a miscarriage?  I know of, remotely, a situation like this and it just makes me wonder.  

I mean what can you say, really?  If you acknowledge the humanity of her lost child, then you must either admit that abortion is the murder of an innocent child, or you have to deny the humanity of the child and, in doing so, deny a large portion of the mother's pain.

Going further, how does someone who is pro-abortion grieve for their child if they or their wife miscarry?  That is almost easier to understand though.  Perhaps it becomes a form of denial, where they don't consider the miscarriage a loss of life.

I don't say any of this to be mean spirited or snarky, but out of real concern.  It seems to be just another way that abortion hurts women and families.  It denies healthy and healing grieving to those who need it.

--The Baron
Ceterum autem censeo, Tabulam esse delendam!

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1 comments

Foxfier, formerly Sailorette  

I think it wedges on what you view the pregnancy as.

We view that as a kid that's in the womb; a lot of pro abortion type folks view the pregnancy-- assuming it's wanted-- as a sort of expression of their desire for a child.

May 6, 2009 9:12 PM

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