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====== PBH100H: Understanding the Heart of a Vulnerable Women in a Crisis Pregnancy ====== | ====== PBH100H: Understanding the Heart of a Vulnerable Women in a Crisis Pregnancy ====== | ||
- | FIXME combine with CCBR document? https://www.lifesitenews.com/ | + | |
+ | FIXME Paul Swope, summary of the research: | ||
+ | > The summary report of the study bears the intriguing title “Abortion: | ||
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+ | > Unplanned motherhood, according to the study, represents a threat so great to modern women that it is perceived as equivalent to a “death of self.” While the woman may rationally understand this is not her own literal death, her emotional, subconscious reaction to carrying the child to term is that her life will be “over.” This is because many young women of today have developed a self-identity that simply does not include being a mother. It may include going through college, getting a degree, obtaining a good job, even getting married someday; but the sudden intrusion of motherhood is perceived as a complete loss of control over their present and future selves. It shatters their sense of who they are and will become, and thereby paralyzes their ability | ||
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+ | > When these women evaluate the abortion decision, therefore, they do not, as a pro-lifer might, formulate the problem | ||
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+ | > Even those women who are likely to choose life rather than abortion do so not because they better understand fetology or have a greater love for children, but because they have a broader and less fragile sense of self, and they can better incorporate motherhood into their self-identity. | ||
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+ | > Adoption, unfortunately, | ||
* Provider for two, I can barely provide for one | * Provider for two, I can barely provide for one | ||
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* The father rejects the mother when he rejects the baby | * The father rejects the mother when he rejects the baby | ||
* Women often are willing to suffer for another -- unfortunately they will even suffer an abortion in order to " | * Women often are willing to suffer for another -- unfortunately they will even suffer an abortion in order to " | ||
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+ | FIXME reflection on this from a woman whose partner initially wanted abortion https:// | ||
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**There' | **There' | ||
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* Let her cry | * Let her cry | ||
* Help her to get in touch with what her heart is really saying to her | * Help her to get in touch with what her heart is really saying to her | ||
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+ | FIXME Choice42 videos as examples to consider, how the stories relate to the guidance? https:// | ||
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