At the end of last week, when the Washington Post published an article I wrote about the Twitter trend of tweeting “I had an abortion,” I prepared myself for a bit of backlash, especially on Twitter, where the pro-abortion trend started.
I was not disappointed.
I’d like to say that I had positive, thoughtful interactions with people who disagree that all human life deserves protection. But that would be a lie. I had a couple of those. But I had other interactions that included name-calling, vulgarity, and ugly lies.
It was one of the latter interactions that sent me a link and opened my eyes to a disturbing “ministry” I previously did not know existed—one where people who dare to call themselves “doulas” help nervous and emotionally distraught women choose to abort their babies.
They are abortion doulas, of course.
“One woman was so nervous during her abortion that her sweat soaked through her paper gown.
A second apologized repeatedly for not being ready to have a child.
A third sobbed quietly because she was forced to terminate her pregnancy due to health complications.
During the two years that Lauren Mitchell has attended to the needs of women undergoing abortions, these three patients are among the hundreds she has served.
“Abortion is different for every woman, and though it can be straightforward and simple, it can in some cases be stressful,” said Mitchell, co-founder of The Doula Project, a Manhattan-based nonprofit that trains volunteers to support women not only during delivery, but during abortions, too. “Regardless of the circumstances, we’re here to help.”
I suppose the description of these women in distress is supposed to make us sympathetic to the fact that they need support. Of course they need support. But do any of these “doulas” pause to think for a moment that the woman crying and sweating and shaking on the abortionist’s table might be best served by finding a way to help her that does not involve killing her baby?
Of course not.
Once again, the pro-choice agenda proves that it’s not really pro-choice after all. It’s pro-abortion. Abortion is the only approved “choice” for pregnant women in distress.
I am not surprised. Saddened and sickened, sure. But not surprised.
St. Ann, Patroness of Pregnant Women, pray for us!
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God bless you, Danielle, for unmasking these executioners. The Sermon on the Mount anticipated your due pay.
Once again, another aspect of the abortion movement that leaves me speechless. The truth of abortion is revealed so many different ways, yet they twist what they see with their own eyes.
I have heard of women who assisted with these abortions. I do believe women who have aborted their babies need counseling, in order to deal with the trauma, but I can’t believe people are coaching women into having an abortion. This seems to be direct retaliation against the Pro-Life movement.
I haven’t heard them called doulas though, a term I associate with the doulas that assist with childbirth or midwives.
A friend of mine is a doula, but she assists with pregnancy and childbirth.
I also read a book on the subject, which detailed the history of midwivery and I believe these abortion doulas are crossing the line.
The book, which I may still have, discussed how many of the herbal abortifacients were used in a better way, such as when a D&C wasn’t possible, but the fetus had died naturally or that those agents which stimulate abortion, are very useful during childbirth, especially those which may increase contractions. (There is a name for the same agents when used for childbirth, but I don’t recall it.)
Isaiah 5:20
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
Great post, Danielle. Thank you for standing up in a big way for the voiceless, helpless, unwanted in our country. Christ’s peace.
Fantastic job, Danielle…not just on this post, but on the article published in the Washington Post. It takes a great deal of courage to speak the truth plainly, and not to back down, even in the face of the inevitable backlash.
I hope to do the same some day.
When we shine the light of Christ on the evils of abortion and euthanasia, the truth of the “choice” agenda will be seen for what it really is.
it appears to me that pro-sborts see abortion as a good in itself, a right of passage for modern western woman. These ‘Doulas’ remind me of death-camp guards funneling the victim to the execution chamber. Murder lurks within their soul. O good Jesus, help us.
The documentary “Blood Money” was recently shown on EWTN and reveals the horrors of abortion and the manipulation and deceptions of the proponents of abortion. Would we have a ‘doulas’ for those who molest children? Comforting a child while the child is being molested? Let us pray that our nation - all nations - and all people may awaken to the devastating effects of abortion on everyone.
That child molesting comment is too ironic for words.
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