Teenager has abortion due to incest, regrets it

Dallas Rushing was a victim of incest whose father impregnated her.

At 17, she went to live with her father and started having sex with him. He was abusive, but she was convinced she loved him. After she became pregnant, she wanted to have her baby, but he wanted her to have an abortion. She left him for good when she was 14 weeks pregnant after a bad beating. But she decided to get an abortion.

Rushing writes:

“I sat there holding my stomach. I was hoping I would feel a kick, and at one point I imagined I did. By the time I got in the Operating room, I was freezing and my legs wouldn’t stop shaking because I was shivering so much. The doctor told me to put my feet in the stirrups, but when my legs wouldn’t stop shaking, the doctor got mad at me. She rudely told me to stop shaking. At the same time, the nurses were pumping a medicine into my arm and I quickly fell unconscious…

I got up and walked out without my child, and I was fine. I didn’t think about what I had just done — I couldn’t think about it.

Two weeks went by and that’s when I started feeling the loss. I cried a lot … I just made the worst mistake of my life. I ended my baby’s life. My own child. My life felt like a living hell at that point. My heart was hurting so bad that I wished I would have died there with my child. I couldn’t go to work without drinking first.

Still to this day I cry and deeply mourn the loss of my child. Nothing has hurt me more than knowing that I killed my baby. I was supposed to be there to protect him. I wanted him in my life so much but I was a coward and took the easy way out. I can’t stand myself for the decision I made.

That is why I wrote this article. If you are pregnant because of rape or incest and you are lost, then please take this story to heart. You never know what you will miss, or how you will feel afterwards…. I am simply trying to save mothers and their babies.”

Dallas Rushing “I aborted a child due to incest. To this day, I still deeply mourn the loss of my baby” Live Action News August 12, 2020

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Pro-choicer: pro-choice activists are afraid to give any value to babies lost in miscarriages

Pro-choice activist Linda Layne wrote:

“Because antiabortion activists base their argument on the presence of fetal, and even more importantly, embryonic personhood, feminists have studiously avoided anything that might imply or concede such a presence.

The fear, in the context of pregnancy loss, is that if one were to acknowledge that there was something of value lost, something worth grieving in a miscarriage, one would thereby automatically accede the inherent personhood of embryos and fetuses.”

Linda Layne Motherhood Lost: A Feminist Account of Pregnancy Loss in America (New York: Rutledge, 2003) 240

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Post-abortive youth pastor suffers grief and regret

Mark Bradley Morrow was working as a youth pastor when he impregnated three women, one of them twice. All four babies were aborted, with his approval.

Years later, when he married a woman with a young daughter, he began to suffer from depression and grief over his lost children. He tells his story in his book The Greatest Pretender: 1 Youth Leader, 4 Abortions, 18 Years of Secrecy. He writes about walking his stepdaughter, Ricque, to the school bus stop:

“When she was ready, I walked her out and watched the kiddos of various ages getting on the bus, shouting and playing happily. Suddenly something struck me. My four unborn children should be on this very bus. They should be playing, laughing, and making new friends. I became dizzy under the weight of that thought…

My other four children should be on this bus. I should have their elementary school drawings on the fridge, and they should currently be in middle school, going out for sports or plays. Soon they’d be heading into high school… In a few years, I should someday be teaching them how to drive, discussing dating, taking them to their varsity sporting events… They’d look and act like me in many ways, maybe even be into singing and music. I’d take them to Christian and Oldies concerts, see them go to prom. Homecoming, graduate, help them decide on colleges… I turned from the bus to hide the torrent of tears. My heart ached to realize I would never know them on this Earth. They were truly my invisible children.”

Mark Bradley Morrow and Brad Rahme The Greatest Pretender: 1 Youth Leader, 4 Abortions, 18 Years of Secrecy (New York: Morgan James Publishing, 2019) 179

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Owner of second pill in the abortion pill regimen opposed its use in abortion

Cytotec is another name for the drug misoprostol, which was originally developed to treat ulcers but is now used with the abortion pill, mifepristone, to cause abortions. Misoprostol causes the uterus to contract, causing a woman to expel her baby. Mifepristone kills the baby by separating the placenta and cutting off the child’s oxygen and nutrition supply.

The company that has the patent to misoprostol/Cytotec opposed its use in abortions. According to author Melissa Haussman:

“The owner of the Cytotec patent, the Searle Company, consistently lobbied against having its drug included in an official medical abortion procedure.… In August 2000, one month after the drug had gone off-patent, Searle sent a letter to medical practitioners to warn them that Cytotec was not FDA approved for labor or abortion induction, although practitioners already knew that. It has strongly been suggested that the timing of that action was linked to avoiding future liability. Until misoprostol went off patent in July 2000, Searle acted to push any potential US manufacturer away from making mifepristone, since misoprostol would be required as an accompaniment.”

Melissa Haussman Reproductive Rights and the State: Getting the Birth Control, RU-486, and Morning-After Pills and the Gardasil Vaccine to the US Market (Santa Barbara, California: Praeger, 2013) 99

So Searle felt that it was unsafe to use misoprostol to induce abortions or labor, and was afraid of lawsuits due to this.

However, Searle lost the battle to control the use of their drug.

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Post-abortive woman suffers nightmares and flashbacks: counselors denied the cause of her pain

A woman who had an abortion wrote:

“Abortion was the obvious solution. It would get me back to normal, keep me in control, spare me unnecessary pain. But after my abortion, reality parted company with rhetoric. The choice that was supposed to spare me the heartache of parting with my own flesh and blood, tormented me with an overwhelming sense of loss from which there was no escape.

I was haunted by nightmares and flashbacks that were so vivid, so distressing, so out of control that I felt like I was falling apart. At times, I thought suicide might bring welcome relief.

I sought help from counselors and psychologists who denied that my abortion could bring me grief. Now, what about my relationship with my father? My mother? No, I must have got it wrong. Abortion was a solution, not a problem…. My life continued to unravel. I was referred to a psychiatrist, who gave me pills but no answers.

Life went on. I established a career in scientific/medical research (recombinant DNA technology), but I was never the same again. What I gained as a consequence was always tarnished by the cost….

When I realized that other women experienced grief after abortion, I was outraged. Why were women allowed – often encouraged – to proceed without regard for alternatives, or consequences? Why were they uninformed, sometimes lied to, when they were supposed to be making their own choices?….

In the eight years since then, I have learned about and corresponded with grieving post-abortive women from throughout the country. None were prepared for the aftermath.”

PHILIPPA PECK “The grief of abortion” The Press (Christchurch, NZ), June 13, 2000

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Abortionist quit because she couldn’t stand to look at “little bodies”

Former abortionist Dr. Beverly McMillan:

“I got to where I couldn’t stand to look at the little bodies anymore.”

Dr. Beverly McMillan, when asked why she stopped performing abortions.

Quoted in Mary Meehan “The Ex Abortionists: They Have Confronted Reality” Washington Post April 1, 1988 p a 21

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Pro-choice activist: Men Oppose Abortion Because they are Parasites

Pro-choice activist Marilyn Frye writes about why she thinks some men are pro-life:

“The parasitism of males on females is, as I see it, demonstrated by the panic, rage, and hysteria generated in so many of them by the thought of being abandoned by women…

The fetus lives parasitically. It is a distinct animal surviving off the life (the blood) of another animal creature. It is incapable of surviving on its own resources, of independent nutrition; incapable even of symbiosis.

If it is true that males live parasitically upon females, it seems reasonable to suppose that many of them and those loyal to them are in some way sensitive to the parallelism between their situation and that of the fetus.

They could easily identify with the fetus. The woman who is free to see the fetus as a parasite might be free to see the man as a parasite…

They do not worry about murder and involuntary sterilization in prisons, nor murder in war, nor murder by pollution and industrial accidents.

Either these are not real to them or they cannot identify with the victims; but anyway, killing in general is not what they oppose. They worry about the rejection by women, at women’s discretion…

I discuss abortion here because it seems to me to be the most publicly emotional and most physically dramatic ground on which the theme of separation and male parasitism is presently being played out…

Male parasitism means that males must have access to women; it is the Patriarchal Imperative. But feminist no–saying is more than a substantial removal (redirection, reallocation) of goods and services because

Access is one of the faces of Power. Female denial of male access to females substantially cuts off the flow of benefits, but it is also the form and full portent of assumption of power.”

Marilyn Frye “Some Reflections on Separatism and Power” Sinister Wisdom no. 6, Summer 1975, pp. 33 – 35

Above: 16 weeks. Are men who oppose killing babies like this one parasites? And what about pro-life women?

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German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer on abortion

German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed by the Nazis for opposing Hitler and plotting, with others, to assassinate him. He said the following about abortion:

“Destruction in the mother’s womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life… The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that is nothing but murder.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Ethics [translated by Neville Horton Smith] (New York: Macmillan, 1955) 131

Quoted in Terry Schlossberg and Elizabeth Achtemeier Not My Own: Abortion & the Marks of the Church (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995)

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Pro-choice researcher says women who experienced sexual assault can be traumatized by abortion

Pro-choice researcher Gloria Zakus wrote:

“Certain categories of women are much more likely to have postabortion problems sometimes months or years later… Women with a history of sexual abuse, including incest, molestation, or rape, may respond with greater anxiety to abortion plans, encompassing even the initial pelvic exam. On a conscious or unconscious level, these women may associate gynecological and abortion procedures with previous aggressive violations. One such case involving a teenager in an incestuous relationship with her father required hospitalization and the use of general anesthetic in order to do a suction procedure.”

Gloria Zakus and Sandra Wilday “Adolescent Abortion Option” Social Work in Health Care 12 (4), Summer 1987, 86 – 87

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Legal Abortion Death: Ellen Williams, 38 (Infection due to Punctured Uterus and Bowel)

Kevin Sherlock writes about Ellen Williams:

“This 38-year-old public school administrator died March 6, 1985, four days after undergoing an abortion at Dadeland Family Planning Center in Miami. Her husband sued abortion providers Nabil Ghali and Chatoor Singh for his wife’s death.

According to court paperwork on the case, Singh performed an abortion on Ellen March 2, 1985. Complaining of high fever and cramps, Ellen returned to the facility March 4. Ghali and Singh performed a second abortion on the woman and sent her home. She worsened, and had to be taken by ambulance to a hospital March 5. She died in the hospital the next day. A Dade County medical examiner performed an autopsy on her and found she died of peritonitis (inflammation of the abdominal and pelvic cavity lining membrane) because her uterus and bowel were punctured during the abortions.”

Sources: Dade County Circuit Court in Miami, Court Case No. 85 –14112 and Tropic Magazine of the Miami Herald

Kevin Sherlock The Scarlet Survey (Akron, Ohio, Brennyman Books, 1997) 18

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