Thursday, October 15, 2009
Abortion addiction
No doubt this news item will prompt a lot of discussion. Right now I'm speechless.
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4 comments:
I don't know the whole story inside out, but read a little about it yesterday.
It is of course horrible, but it seems a bit like the word 'addiction' has been a bit of an attention grabbing thing.
It sounds to me less like addiction, and more just this horrible sick situation of being torn between a desire for children and a fear of losing her husband.
Was she actaully addicted to abortion itself? I don't know, but it certainly gives you chills to imagine that was possible. It sounds to me more like she was addicted to getting pregnant- the shortlived high of knowing she was pregnant. The abortions sound more like the drastic consequences she then took to deal with the 'addiction'.
Hearsay, I guess.
I read that and felt like crying (am a bit hormonal at the moment). Then later I thought about it. Why is this news? Did I really need to know about this personal story? It's so sensationalist. Refugee protests, abortion laws, I get. They matter to the country in some way. This story was just a bit of entertainment, in a sick, peverted way.
Yeah, I agree that’s it’s really not “news” (but then how much of the paper is these days - much of it seems to be personal stories that don’t really impact on the country) – and is more of a kind of “book launch”. What I found interesting is, while I don’t at all subscribe to this idea that ‘the reasons why women have abortions is complicated so we shouldn’t say simplistic things like “abortion is wrong”’, it’s worth perhaps listening to why some do have them, to better help them.
Ben, I wrote a response to Soph in email before I read your comment, which I don't seem to have an email for, but given the highs and lows she went through on the whole thing I think an "addiction" is well and truly possible, but yes, you're right, a large component of that would probably be the highs of getting pregnant (with perhaps the thrill of rebellion against her husband in there), and then she had to deal with that (though maybe the whole emotional trauma/drama of abortion got addictive too). Sad, sad, sad - and a fairly classic story of addiction in some ways, because ppl always have to deal with the consequences once they've got whatever it is they get out of their particular addiction - only in her case the "consequence" was a positive, really, and was a human life. I just hope I never come across this one.
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/wellbeing/author-addicted-to-an-abusive-relationship-not-to-abortion-expert-20091021-h7a7.html
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