“Prettifying” abortion? That won’t work.

Here’s an attention grabbing pull-quote from the story:

A trend is growing among abortionists and their supporters in the medical community to admit at least tacitly that abortion causes long-term psychological and emotional damage. The response, however, has been what some have called a “bizarre” emphasis on helping women become comfortable with the fact of having chosen to kill a child.

They couldn’t avoid the conversation much longer. Women are learning this from the widespread and growing work of crisis pregnancy centers nationwide, along with the pro-life movement’s efforts to inform and educate the public.

But in order to talk about the realities of abortion, they have to face the truth. And the pro-abortion movement is not good at facing the realities of abortion.

John Hof head of Campaign Life Coalition British Columbia said that the theory behind such programmes, to “prettify” and legitimize abortion, is far removed from the reality. He relates the story of a young Asian student who went to work in China with her aunt, an abortionist enforcing the one child policy in China.

“This young lady related to me the feelings she had that day and will never forget. Mostly she said she will remember the noise. ‘Everyone was angry. Doctors yelling at nurses. Nurses yelling at patients and patients yelling and screaming at themselves.'”

We hear this kind of account time and again from people coming out of that work and into the pro-life movement.

Hof commented, “There is no way to dress up abortion and make it look pretty. You need to lift the rocks and look under them to find where abortion is acceptable. It was, is and always will be a ‘subterranean thing’.”