The Reverse Abortion

All Things Beautiful has an interesting post up on a sad story out of Europe.

Long and short of it is that a woman was left infertile by cancer. She and her fiance underwent fertility treatments and several embryos were created, but they broke up and her fiance withdrew his consent. (What a worm!)

Anyway, she turned to courts in the European Union after the UK courts shut her down:

In the court’s judgement today, decided by a panel of seven judges, said: “The Court, like the national courts, had great sympathy for the plight of the applicant who, if implantation did not take place, would be deprived of the ability to give birth to her own child.”

But it was ruled, in a majority verdict that, even in such exceptional circumstances as Ms Evans’, the right to a family life – enshrined in article eight of the European Convention of Human Rights – could not override Mr Johnston’s withdrawal of consent.

It also ruled unanimously that the embryos did not have an independent right to life.

Now, its a tragic ruling for the rights of the unborn in Britain. All things considered it is a quite intriguing one. What happened to Ms. Evans is a tragedy but its not unheard of, there are lots of men who know the feeling.

First, let me acknowledge, there are lot of absentee deadbeat men who fail to take responsibility for their actions. Then there are those men who would take responsibility if only they knew. Others have even actively tried to talk their girlfriends or wives out of getting an abortion. Yet, they like Ms. Evans find it doesn’t matter how much they want this child, the other partner holds the power.

Those of you who look at this case as human beings and say, “My God, how monstrous, petty, and cruel this man is (and he is.)” How can we look at women who will in thousands of cases each year turn aside the fathers of their babies, claiming the unborn as their sole property without a care for who wants the child and end its life.

In a classic of women’s choice, Amy Richards infamously aborted two of her triplets to avoid things like “buying large jars of Mayonaise at Costco.” Her boyfriend didn’t want to, but all he could do was look on with horror as she recounted:

But Peter was staring at the sonogram screen thinking: Oh, my gosh, there are three heartbeats. I can’t believe we’re about to make two disappear.

As Alexandra pointed out the law in the case was sound as far as the precedents and the issues in the case, but that we have created a society where children are used and disposed of in the most selfish ways. Where games of power politics are played with the lives of the innocent and we butcher our own conscience in the name of things like choice or convenience.

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