28 reasons abortion insults women:

I often think of abortion as an insult to women and for a few months now I've wanted to stop and write down all the ways abortion disrespects women that I could think of-- here is my anything and everything list so far:

1. It doesn't let a woman be a woman
2. It treats a woman as though she would be better off as a man
3. It tells a woman her ability to give life is conditionally valuable
4. It demands a woman's sexual availability at all costs
5. It denies women lasting love through relationships with their soon to be born child and, for unmarried women, their should-be husband
6. It tells a woman she should want sex, but not expect commitment
7. It promotes the misuse of women as sexual objects
8. It leaves women alone and abandoned when they are obviously not solely responsible for a pregnancy
9. It leaves women abandoned at a time when they most need support and compassion
10. It tells a woman she should be sexy, or financially well-off, or well-rounded, or well-traveled, or successful, or unhindered, rather than be pregnant
11. It insults the dignity of all persons: if you believe abortion should be available to all, then you must concede that it would have been perfectly fine-and perhaps even better- for your own mother to have chosen to kill you with an abortion
12. The abortion industry refuses to tell the stories of women heartbroken over past abortions, thereby refusing to offer woman a so-called 'educated choice'
13. The abortion industry refuses to tell a woman the potential catastrophic affects an abortion may have on her in the future
14. The abortion industry closes women's eyes to outside assistance that is available for pregnant women
15. The abortion industry mistreats women, as evidenced by the many, many women who walk away from an abortion feeling they were treated inhumanely by the staff
16. It denies a woman objectivity; no woman makes the decision to have an abortion without feeling or receiving pressure from at least one of the following; family members, friends, coworkers, bosses, circumstances, the father of her child, or from societal expectations
17. It treats unborn women--and men--as potential garbage
18. It treats women as incapable of accepting hardship
19. It treats women as incapable of thriving amidst hardship
20. "My body, my choice" is a lie: a person distinct from its mother dies in an abortion
21. It lies by saying death is often better than life
22. It lies by saying death is better than hardship
23. It lies by saying that well-being can come out of killing your unborn child
24. It lies by calling evil good
25. It ignores the all-too real consequences of sin in a woman's life
26. It encourages women to give in to fear
27. It refuses to encourage the honorable option, adoption
28. It treats any mother's worst nightmare--living through the death of her child--as inconsequential