The lie about abortion

Dear Editor: I was sad to see two young women featured displaying “prochoice” signs outside Kelowna General Hospital (Okanagan Weekend, June 16). At 14 and 15years-old, these young women willingly get parental permission to go on class field trips or be given Tylenol at the office.

Yet, they are able to get an abortion without their parents knowing, and it seems they consider abortion an easy choice. This flippancy toward abortion shows a lack of understanding of the potential physical and emotional consequences pregnancy and abortion can have on a teen girl.

They have bought into the lie that abortion is about freedom for women. If these young women become pregnant, they do not do so alone. Yet, they are the ones expected to deal with the consequences. Abortion is an easy solution for boyfriends (or abusers): if she has an option to get rid of the baby, then keeping it can be seen as solely her choice and so also solely her responsibility.

In Canada, abortion is unregulated to the point that clinics do not have to report statistics for how many abortions they perform, or what the gestational age was of the unborn child being aborted.

They do not have to report complications, and any counseling is done by employees with a vested interest in profiting from abortion. Abortion does these young women no favours, and I hope they eventually see it for what it is: a human life being taken because another, stronger person has deemed that life not worth living. Anna Nienhuis Chilliwack