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-====== PBS301H: Paul Swope ======
-===== Abortion: A failure to communicate =====
-[[https://www.firstthings.com/article/1998/04/004-abortion-a-failure-to-communicate|Abortion: A failure to communicate]] (1998)
-  * Another issue, semi-unrelated to Klusendorf's critiques: can these ads be deceptive, to a degree? Can they give a woman false reassurance about the control she will have following pregnancy?
-> [A woman is in front of a nice house, raking leaves. She says good-bye to her daughter, then turns to the viewer.] “I was sixteen when I found out that I was pregnant with Carrie. I wasn’t married and I was really scared. You know, some people today say that I should have had an abortion, but it never occurred to me that I had that choice, just because it wasn’t convenient for me. Hey, I’m no martyr, but I really can’t believe I had a choice after I was pregnant. Think about it.” While this ad is not always popular among pro-life activists, polls showed it is extremely effective with young women. This is because it presents a role model who is approachable and believable, and **the subliminal message in the ad—the nice house, the good relationship with the daughter, the image of control as the woman stands holding the rake as she takes care of her own yard—**all reinforce the message that this woman is, in fact, a kind of martyr, because she has made a difficult decision but “gotten on with her life.” The ad subtly offers the very kind of resolution a woman facing a crisis pregnancy desperately seeks and which she is too often deceived into thinking abortion will provide.
-  * Talia's comment about how this wouldn't be much comfort to the woman who is in poverty, and may still be after birth
-    * Also, Talia's comments about how many women who have abortions already have other children. Does the same crisis of identity happen for these women?
-===== A New Understanding of the Trauma of Abortion =====
-[[http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/02/a_new_understanding_of_the_trauma_of_abortion.html|A New Understanding of the Trauma of Abortion]] (2013), with Charles Kenney
-> Women carry an unwanted pregnancy to term when guilt wins out over shame, when they feel that the pregnancy will not end their own current and future selves, and that the unborn will be better off alive than dead.