While listening to an interview with Peggy Ornstein on our local NPR station I was struck with a situational question that I haven’t given much thought to before. How do women who are pro-choice deal with the loss of a child due to miscarriage? Are they not supposed to grieve because they didn’t actually lose a baby but something that wasn’t a fully formed human being?
Ornstein was on Fresh Air promoting her new book Waiting for Daisy in which she writes about the six years it took her and her husband to have a child. In the interview, Ornstein stated that she found it difficult to reconcile the grief she felt when she miscarried her 3 month old baby with the fact that she was 100% pro-choice. Difficult? Try impossible. She admitted to using different terms for a miscarriage vs. an abortion; the former she used the term baby and the latter fetus…talk about confused.
It saddens me that some are unable to admit that abortion is ending life, not ending “potential” life. Because of this, it’s important to remember pregnant women and their babies in our daily prayers. O Lord, have mercy upon us miserable offenders…