The other day I saw part of a Frontline documentary, linked to here by my new friend Jill Stanek. It was about abortion, made in 1983. On Jill's post, there is an explanation as well as two large photo links to the movie clips which show the woman while she is getting an abortion.
I clicked the second one, where Jill noted the woman, Helen, had more problems and apprehension about the abortion. I watched as she was led into the room where she was to kill her baby--and she was led by a very nice looking woman. A woman whom I'd gladly converse with under any normal circumstance.
The look on the Helen's face as she got ready for the abortion was one of obvious nervousness. She smiled and giggled the way we all do when we are embarrassed about being embarrassed. She lay on the table alone while the nurse fetched the "doctor". They prepped Helen and got ready to give her the abortion.
Going through my mind as I am watching this was the realization that, firstly, this woman is getting ready to kill her baby. I am actually watching it happen on TV. No one was doing anything to stop it. The PBS cameramen were just doing another day at work, apparently.
She spread her legs in the same fashion as she would if she were giving birth, and the abortionist prepared her cervix. The camera panned to Helen's face to show what was going on with her as she goes through with the violent act of killing her baby.
And I turned it off. I couldn't bear to watch it. Me, who has seen a recent video of an abortion from the baby's point of view. Me, who has stood before graphic pictures of abortion on the most liberal block in all of Oregon talking to people who think that they know what's good for women: killing children. Me, who offers the view to all who come to his website to see these horrible pictures.
I couldn't bear to watch the pain this woman would go through. She was so deceived. My compassion for her was so great tat I couldn't bear to see her in pain as she made the biggest mistake in her life.
As Jill said, "[The film] has not been far from the front of my mind since. I'm angry all over again. Abortion is so incredibly vile." These are exactly my thoughts, and I couldn't stomach watching the entire film. In some ways I think that even the small portion of this film that I watched was much more effective than seeing the baby after he has been slaughtered.
Abortion deceives women. The pro-choice movement deceives women. Abortion must be defended with dishonesty on every front, and it has been since 1973. The pro-choice advocates and feminists who defend it as a basic right are deluded beyond deluded if they cannot admit the dishonesty in their movement.
Perhaps someday I will be able to watch the film. Until then, I will simply continue to pray for the children in danger of being killed, and pray for the women of our nation who are being deceived by those who seek the blood of children to be spilled.
