Have you ever thought of how abortion can serve as a self-fulfilling prophecy of disempowerment of women?
Whatever do I mean by this?
Well, if you think about it, it makes sense.
For what reason, generally speaking, are women encouraged to obtain abortions? Women are told they are too weak to care for a child. They are supposedly too poor, too young, and just by and large unqualified to be fit for motherhood.
The message conveyed to women by the Culture of Death remains that their own children would be better off dead than to be raised by them.
As a result, the value of women who are pregnant is severely hampered by our modern-day Culture of Death.
MOTHERHOOD HAS TAKEN A HIT
Disempowered by the prospect of being a mother, the value pregnant women feel about themselves takes a nosedive in our society. Most women fear getting pregnant. Partly, this is due to the perceived worthlessness in that state in life.
Moreover, the esteem of motherhood, married life, and domestic life as a whole have been severely trampled on by our sex-saturated culture. Having babies leads to a lifestyle not worth living or at least delaying, according to pop culture.
See? See? So many women are seeking abortions because they would make such pathetic mothers. Thank goodness they have the ability to have their own unborn children murdered, they claim.
THE IRONY OF ABORTION PROMOTION
For women with unplanned pregnancies who have their unborn babies killed by abortion, what happens with them?
They are taught to expect the abortion will solve their socioeconomic problems. By having a dead baby, they are told to expect to be freed up to experience greater aspects of life that the child would have made impossible.
Do these expectations play out as they are led to believe they will?
No, not at all.
Speaking about the unaffirmed pregnant woman, Dr. Conrad Baars states, “[The] consequences of induced abortion… consist always of a deepening of her feelings of inferiority, inadequacy, insignificance, and worthlessness” (1, emphasis added).
In other words, the pregnant mother says to herself, “I can’t possibly raise this child, everyone tells me. I guess I am worthless and it’s the merciful thing to do to kill my kid.”
Then after the abortion has been completed, “See? I guess I was right to buy into that.”
Abortion serves as “a symbol of failure,” explains Dr. Howard Fischer, a professor of psychiatry. The abortionists and staff, he says, who perform abortions may be “accomplices in self-destructive behavior” (2, emphasis added). As opposed to super heroes who help damsels in distress, as the media would have you believe.
Another way to explain this is this way.
Our culture of modernism tells women their entire lives they ought to pursue motherhood and that they are unfit to parent their own children. One in three women buy into this mentality and get an abortion. Then the mantra keeps being rebroadcast.
See? See? So many women are seeking abortions because they would make such pathetic mothers. Thank goodness they have the ability to have their own unborn children murdered, they claim.
And round and round we go.
THE CYCLE NEEDS TO END
As pro-lifers we need to help to break the cycle of self-fulfilling prophecy that abortion is.
The truth is that women are not empowered by abortion. They will never and could never be better off rejecting their God-given ability to raise the next generation of human beings.
We must be speaking a message that counteracts the Culture of Death. The truth is women make great mothers. The truth is women are called to motherhood—biologically or otherwise.
The truth is abortion is unbecoming of womanhood and motherhood. This is what we need to be promoting. To each and every mother. Planned or unplanned pregnancy. Every child is a gift.
This is the truth we ought to be promoting. And as Christ Himself said, the Truth will set us all free (John 8:31-32).
YOUR TURN
Have any thoughts on the self-fulfilling prophecy of disempowerment of women that abortion has become?
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(1) Dr. Conrad Baars, “Physic Causes and Consequences of the Abortion Mentality,” The Psychological Aspects of Abortion
(2) Dr. Howard Fischer, “Abortion—Pain or Pleasure?” The Psychological Aspects of Abortion
