By Bryan Ballas, Juicy Ecumenism.
Abortion doctors often display a need to justify their work. Some, such as Dr. Bernard Nathanson – prior to becoming pro-life – convinced himself he was bringing a service to the poor that was once exclusive to the rich. Others assert that they are warriors for women’s rights, despite the elimination of female children. But Dr. Sarah Wallett offers the most bizarre reason for performing abortions: her Christian faith.
Writing for women’s lifestyle publication Refinery 29, Wallett states:
The compassion and empathy I learned from my Christian faith are fundamental to my work. Too often, women who choose to have an abortion face significant stigma and shame — I see it every day. Patients have to walk by protestors screaming “murderer” and much worse just to get inside my clinic. One patient, a mother of four, couldn’t stop telling me why she was getting an abortion, clearly feeling as though she needed to explain herself to me after walking by the protestors…Even to her abortion provider, she felt obligated to justify her decision, a task no one should ever have to do. (Emphasis Added)
Wallet continues on that her faith compels her to withhold judgment on those seeking to end their child’s life:
My heart goes out to every woman who asks me if I think she is a bad person for seeking medically or personally necessary, legal care. But my faith teaches me to withhold judgment and to extend acceptance to all, and although she may not be ready to hear it at that moment, I always provide her with the reassurance that she needs…[I]t’s my obligation as a physician and a person of faith to provide at least one counterpoint to the shameful feelings a woman has and the misinformation she hears that cause her so much pain. This is especially important when stigma and shame force women into isolation. A woman’s decision to pick a path that is right for her and her family too often leads to judgment and estrangement from her community, church, and support networks. (Emphasis Added)
In summary, Wallet is compelled to end the lives of children because Christianity teaches “compassion and empathy,” which she says translates into protecting abortion seekers from “shameful feelings” and the “judgment and estrangement from [their] communit[ies], church[es], and support networks.”
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Reading a health warning about Zika here. Looked up a few articles and found quotes urging immediate action, such as “Babies lives and welfare are at stake.”
According to statistics from studies described in the New England Journal of Medicine, in some tropical areas, the Zika virus infection rate of the population approaches 80% and the likelihood of an mother’s child being affected is somewhere between 0.5% and 13% if she is infected in the first trimester. Using US statistics from the CDC, this would equate (in the worst case of 80% infection rate and 13% chance) in the USA about 350,000 cases per year if I’ve done the math right. More likely figures of 30% and 2%, respectively, would lead to about 21,000 cases per year.
Compare the figures above to the CDC statistics of 699,202 US abortions in the year 2012 (the latest report), 90% of which occurred in the first trimester.
Babies lives are at stake, indeed.