the result of frantic efforts
Pro-abortion advocate Dr. Waldo L. Fielding, takes us back to his early medical days during the pre-Roe “bad old days”. In his New York Times essay he endorsed himself as a reliable source in Repairing the Damage, Before Roe , “when a woman’s desperate need to abort was the driving force behind the selection of using any method available.”
The patient also did not explain why she had attempted the abortion, and we did not ask. This was a decision she made for herself, and the reasons were hers alone. Yet this much was clear: The woman had put herself at total risk, and literally did not know whether she would live or die.
The familiar symbol of illegal abortion is the infamous “coat hanger” — which may be the symbol, but is in no way a myth….. Almost any implement you can imagine had been and was used to start an abortion — darning needles, crochet hooks, cut-glass salt shakers, soda bottles, sometimes intact, sometimes with the top broken off..
Whether it be embellishment or outright lies which have given way to the iconic status of the pro-choicers coat hanger, there is a certain ironic veracity to the scandalous attachment to the coat hanger as THE object of the radical feminist’s combustible rage. The abortion industry’s propaganda strikes at the heart and soul of the radicals who scream for the rights for abortions on demand. In the case of the American abortion movement, the creation of the perfect storm was crafted from the symbiotic relationship between predator and prey - manipulators of the abortion industry exploiting abused girls and young women with psychological/personality disorders. More specifically - text book examples of cluster B personality disorders - Borderline Personality Disorder and Histrionic Personality Disorder.
Despite their being no rational medical reason to stick a metal hanger up a birth canal other than to self mutilate, there is minimal evidence (at best) to link the use of coat hangers ever being typically used as devices for “back alley” or do-it-yourself self abortions. There is, however, no shortage of evidence linking those with specific “cluster B” Personality Disorders with genital mutilation , some of which have been associated with the behaviors of sticking sharp objects such as coat hangers, pencils, and other sharp objects up into their genitalia. (Also, see Caenis syndrome).
Those who develop a Borderline Personality Disorder are predominately angry women (with histories of sexual abuse) who are consciously or subconsciously driven to deliver a hurtful revenge onto others. They typically have poor self images and are consequently highly sensitive to rejection and constantly haunted by the fear of being abandoned. As a result, they are willing to take drastic measures to avoid loneliness and solitude, which can often include self mutilation, suicide threats and attempts.
As a way to inflict pain unto those who have or may abandon them, self-mutilation somehow releases the rage by witnessing and showing her pain to those whom she feels, has disavowed the value of her own life. Among the more mentally healthy population - the coat hanger symbol as an abortion device never quite makes sense as there can be no point of reference; where as, those who may have a more maladaptive emotional/mental disposition, would have significantly less problems “relating“; therefore, more likely to accept this as unadulterated truth. As well, can be said for the patriarchy conspiracy theory of being the driving force behind the pro-life movement. This is not meant as a derogatory jab to the intelligence of pro-choicers, but as a simple explanation behind the absurdity of the abortion industry strategies.
As in most cases, we ultimately like to shape our own realities (the value and dignity of each human life as being equal) based upon the history of our past and the current direction of our personal desires. Although tragic, the manifestation of a maladaptive personality disorder imposing it’s anger and will upon our culture and consequently sustaining the abortion industries hypocritical lies (one class of human life is superior to another) must be unconditionally defeated. We are all susceptible to the desires of our weak human nature, and the mental illness which can be intrinsically linked to the abortion industry is no where more evident than within the radical feminist’s iconic regard for the wired coat hanger.
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The contention that abortion had to be made legal, because too many women were dying by having it done illegally, has always struck me as a stupid argument. It’s a cheap appeal to emotions rather than reason.
Comment by dim bulb — June 11, 2008 @ 5:36 pm
Michael Savage was more correct than he realized when he said “Liberalism is a mental disorder.” The only problem is that he has the notion that it allows us the option to despise such people when, if it really arises out of psychic or spiritual disease or injury, such people deserve spite or hatred as little as someone with cancer.
Comment by Steven Cornett — June 11, 2008 @ 9:20 pm
We may hate what they do, but those whose malice arises from trauma especially deserve our prayers and appeal to the Divine Physician, who came to heal the sickness of sin.
Comment by Steven Cornett — June 11, 2008 @ 9:22 pm
GREAT POST!!!!
Comment by kris — June 14, 2008 @ 9:10 am
Great article on the “myth of the coathanger.”
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=37157
The numbers claimed can’t possibly be true. Indeed, some of those that perpetuated that lie have since become pro-life and openly admitted the numbers often cited were simply made up.
Comment by LCB — June 15, 2008 @ 12:56 am
You seem to be questioning Field’s reliability as an eyewitness of the horrific things he reports, but your own assertion, that the women he saw who had attempted self-induced abortions were really suffering from cluster B personality disorders, is pure conjecture. I am not “pro-choice,” and I found Fielding’s op-ed piece profoundly disturbing, because there is simply no way to refute or to verify his account. I suppose we would like to believe that all women desperate enough to seek abortions in the 1940s were emotionally disturbed, but I fear that this is a sweeping generalization of the sort that we use to make ourselves feel more comfortable, and is probably not true. Fielding is right when he says that abortion has always been with us; the fact that the early Christians did not practice it was one of the things that made them stand out in marked relief to other citizens of the Roman Empire. We need to do all we can to heal the women who have been traumatized by abortion, and traumatized enough to seek it out.
Comment by Pentimento — June 15, 2008 @ 9:27 pm