i had several posts on my "I Love Abortion" post from adamant hard-line pro-lifers. i find it to be a circular argument that is so polarizing, divisive, and really gets us nowhere. But, then i came across my friend's post that i linked to that i felt enlightened the debate and brought another angle in which to view the issue. Yet, these pro-lifers seemed to miss the forest for the trees and spoke the same tired responses from over the years. The same arguments without thinking about or considering the new view. Peter's view that i was trying to convey was not even shot down. IT WAS IGNORED ALTOGETHER! i don't have much patience for that! One of the commenters even left a link to a horrible abortion video that i quickly removed. i told the person to never post something like that again or i would ban them.
A few days ago i found and read this heart-breaking story of a Serbian woman who was raped everyday for a year during the Serbian War. So i wondered then, "Would some of the people who commented on my abortion post REALLY want to force this poor woman who was tortured and raped everyday for a year to have the baby that was the product of rape? Are they really THAT fanatical? If so, that blows me away." She did not want the child even though she knew the risks involved. We have not walked in her shoes and to tell her "abortion is murder" after the ordeal she has been through is heartless in my opinion. If you would tell this woman or another like her that abortion is murder, i find you to have more balls than me and one heartless human being.
Here is part of her story in her own words:
"Every day we were raped. Not only in the house -- they would also
take us to the front line for the soldiers to torture us. Then again in
the house, in front of the children," Jasmina said through a
translator, remembering the 10 other women who were brutalized with her.
"I was in such a bad condition that sometimes I couldn't even recognize
my own children. Even though I was in a very bad physical condition
they had no mercy at all. They raped me every day. They took me to the
soldiers and back to that house.
"The only conversation we had
was when I was begging them to kill me. That's when they laughed. Their
response was 'we don't need you dead.' "
Once at the front line,
there were female soldiers who tortured her with a bottle and then
slashed at her throat and wrist when it broke. Then the troops cut one
of her breasts with a bayonet, said Jasmina, now looking older than her
35 years.
"It lasted for a year. Every day. ... Not all the women survived." . . .
Jasmina was safe but scarred. "I felt ashamed. I wanted to die, to
disappear somehow. I couldn't take care of my children; others did
that. I just didn't have the strength or the will."
A new low came when doctors began to treat her in one of the refugee centers around the city of Tuzla.
"They discovered that I was pregnant, six months pregnant, and I didn't
know that. It was too late for any abortion, but I kept saying I didn't
want that child."
The gynecologist pleaded with Jasmina to have
the child and give it up for adoption, saying it was too dangerous to
try anything else. But that was no option for Jasmina. "I didn't want
to hear about that, about giving birth to that child at all."
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