In an effort to sway public opinion on the Supreme Court abortion case
to be heard today (March 2), actress Amy Brenneman has written a column
for Cosmopolitan, stating that she doesn’t regret her abortion.
LifeNews.com reports that the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the case Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt
today. The case will determine whether a Texas law which placed
restrictions on abortion clinics and is estimated to have saved the
lives of more than 10,000 unborn children, will be upheld.
Brenneman spoke with former National Abortion and Reproductive Rights
Action League president Nancy Keenan, asking Keenan why the pro-choice
movement seems to be losing support while the pro-life movement seems to
be gaining support.
“She answered with one simple word: ‘stories,’” Brenneman said. “This
makes sense to me. I am a storyteller by trade, after all. I believe
that we connect and learn by the specifics of stories, our own and
others’.”
Brenneman’s story as written for Cosmopolitan is as follows:
"So here is my story.
In the spring of my junior year at Harvard, my period was late. I had
been in a relationship for almost two years with a loving and supportive
boyfriend. We used birth control, but it malfunctioned. When I learned I
was pregnant, I knew immediately and without question that I wanted an
abortion. I had no desire to be a mother at that time — I wanted to
finish college and start my career.
We found a doctor in the yellow pages. We went to his clean and
respectable office. I had the procedure done with no pain; my boyfriend
was with me the whole time. Afterward, I breathed huge sigh of relief
and thought to myself, I get my life back! I was grateful that I lived
in a country where forced birth was not the law of the land and where
motherhood was not a lifelong consequence for a contraception slip.
I have never, not for one moment, regretted my abortion. My husband of
20 years and I became parents when we had built a home to nurture our
children. Indeed, being a parent has only strengthened my commitment to
reproductive justice as access to legal abortion allows children a
fighting chance to be born into families that desire them and can
support them.”
LifeNews.com notes that, while Brenneman is correct that stories are
effective in influencing peoples’ views, she fails to understand that it
is not only women’s stories that are powerful: the stories of all the
unborn babies killed in abortions are also powerful, and what is more,
we will never get to know what the stories of these 58 million aborted
babies may have been.
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