When Woman Have No Choice (One life lost?)

In the mad rush to achieve abortion on demand in WA, two little things seem to have been forgotten: there was a baby on fridge and a mother who knew it was a baby and wanted proper, culturally appropriate burial for that baby.

In the deafening roar of the chanting of the right-to-choose mantra, both the baby and the mother at the center of events have been overlooked, swept aside in the charged to establish unfettered access to abortion.

The 'pro-choice' flag bearers don't see the baby in the fridge. But the mother did. That's why she wanted a proper burial, not have it thrown in with other 'medical waste'

Did that mother look at what was left of her baby and give thanks for the glorious 'right to choose'? Did she think: "This is the great good whose cause I must champion?" Did she feel empowered by her exercise of 'choice'?

Or did she have other thoughts? Dis she ponder that she had no choice, that she might have chosen differently had she had support?

The pro-choice rhetoric is never as it sounds. It makes all choices sound good and equal, like products in a supermarket from which a women can pick and choose. It suggests no desperation, no pressure, no coercion either direct or reflected in partners passive nonsupport.

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