We Had Abortions Too...and Now We Are Pro-life

Ms. Magazine to Release Fall Issue with Names of 5,000 Women Who Have Had Abortions

Ms. magazine plans to release its controversial fall issue next week containing a "We Had Abortions" cover story listing names of 5,000 women - famous and non-famous - who signed a petition stating that they've had abortions.

Fearful of the momentum growing against abortion-on-demand services and any South Dakotans who choose to vote yes on the Referred Law 6 abortion ban on their state's ballot on Nov. 7, Ms. magazine has coincided the release of its controversial fall issue with names of woman who've had abortions in hopes of ceasing the pro-life movement.

The Times, They Are A-Changin'
It's the same tactic Ms. successfully used back in 1972, when its debut issue included a manifesto signed by 53 women stating that they had undergone illegal abortions. The following pivotal year, the Supreme Court enacted Roe v. Wade, making abortion legal.

But I propose that Ms. magazine's "We Had Abortions" maneuver won't work this time. Over three decades later, the public is now armed with much more information surrounding childbearing and abortion that ever before. With an estimated 50 million abortions having been performed since 1973, plenty of women have experienced firsthand the physical, emotional and psychic toll that abortion exacts.

Medical advances have also made lay citizens privy to much more scientific data regarding childbearing from conception forward than in 1973. DNA tests now predict babies' sex at five weeks after conception.

Week 6 of the pregnancy calendars we pore over (whilst carrying wanted children) inform us of developing organs, including the "beginnings of the central nervous system," the same system that sends and receives pain signals.

Growing Up Pro-Choice
Pro-lifers aren't stupid. Pro-abortionists' desire to keep abortion legal is more about parental convenience and abdication of responsibility than anything else. It's a wrong mindset I too employed in the past, especially growing up in a self-centered society whose laws during most of my 37-year-old life told me it was okay to murder children.