When *Free Choice* is Coercive

 The Supreme Court of the United States began its Fall Term yesterday.  (October 4, 2021)

This term they will be looking at Dobbs v. Jackson's Women's Health Organization, a case that originated in Mississippi and directly challenges the shadowy "penumbra" ruling of Roe v. Wade. If you are interested in that, go do a search. Today I want to talk about coercion.  

 
When the Medical Science Monitor published the results of a study on 'induced abortion and traumatic stress' in 2004, the pro-feminist press suppressed the finding that 64% of American women who had abortions felt pressured by others.  That study appears to have tried to be bias-free.  —   A definitely prolife book, Aborted Women, Silent No More, published two years earlier had asked a similar but differently worded question from women who sought post-abortion help and found that 83% said they would have carried the baby to term *if* they had felt supported.  —  Those studies are approaching twenty years old, and yet the findings are consistent with more recent studies.  The largest study within the past few years reports that 73.8% of the women disagreed  that  their  decision  to  abort  was  entirely  free  from  even  subtle  pressure  from  others  to  abort.  (Population Research Institute, 2018)

I wanted to establish that more women than not feel some amount of coercion; getting an abortion is not the "free choice" portrayed by feminist propaganda. I don't want to get hung up on statistics, but one more anyway:  from the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons Vol No 4

   "13% (of respondents) reported having visited a psychiatrist, psychologist, or counselor prior to the  first  pregnancy  resulting  in  an  abortion,  compared  to  67.5% who sought such professional services after their first abortion. Only 6.6% of respondents reported using prescription  drugs  for  psychological  health  prior  to  the  first  pregnancy that ended in abortion, compared with 51% who reported prescription drug use after the first abortion. These data  suggest  that  the  women  as  a  group  were  generally  psychologically healthy before their first abortion." 

After having an abortion an additional 55% sought counseling to deal with what they'd done, and half of them were now using prescription drugs.  These were the clinical study findings.  They ignore the spiritual warfare of the enemy, and that we are spiritual beings.  Abortions affect three states of being:  There is the Physical cell tissue. There is the emotional/intellect of the Soul realm. 

Even though abortion is politically marketed as "a woman's choice," coercion has generated a lot of people with hurts and issues that only Jesus can heal.  These missing babies, the wounded moms they left behind, and the hardened hearts of the coercers have adversely affected our national well-being.  
The lies that have pushed this deadly insanity for the past half-century have been many and deep.  It is a total myth that an abortion is a sign of a strong woman taking charge of her own body; it is more likely that the abortion was performed on a scared and conflicted woman trying to please a man, escape the judgment of her parents, or bury her mistake along with the baby.  

What has the sustained onslaught of feminist propaganda done to the men in our nation?  It turns many into soy boys; or at the opposite end of the spectrum they check out of relationships and into their man caves.
The good news is that after decades of hits, misses, and failures to influence a decaying society with what ought to have been preservative salt, the Church is finding her voice.  After years of trying to slow the abortion river with a chain fence (more open surface than solid substance) a stand was taken on the steps of the Supreme Court yesterday.