An article from the Toledo Blade

But do the hundreds of thousands of women who opt for abortion each year open themselves to risk?

It depends on the woman, Dr. Coleman said.

“People who decide to have an abortion, are comfortable with it, have social support for it … the majority of women will not have a problem. Most women, at this point in the understanding of the literature … are not harmed psychologically.”

But, she said, many studies show that 10 percent of women who have abortions do have problems.

“It’s that 10 percent with a common procedure that just keeps nudging at me,” she said. “I think that’s a group we really need to look at more closely. Ten percent of 1.3 million women. How could we ignore that? If it was any other medical procedure it would get more attention,” Dr. Coleman said.

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Of course, there’s one indisputable effect of an abortion: a lost life. Millions of them.

And that’s what this about, no matter how opponents try to mischaracterize the struggle. It’s about woman, pregnant with a child, who thinks her situation is so dreadful that she is willing to pay someone to destroy her child. When you are tempted to waver, to wonder who’s side you’re on, remember that there is someone who can’t speak, who can’t defend him or herself against the oncoming threat. If someone came after you with a knife, you could at least try to fight it off. You could cry out, you could fight back.

They can’t.

Whose side are you on? The defenseless one or the attacker?

That’s the question. Someone might ask you this at some point in the future. Maybe even in the future that’s beyond time.

Whose side were you on?