One of the opening paragraphs of an article in the Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health makes the statement that the term “fetus” “describes an unborn baby . . . at any time from conception to birth.”
It’s a little oversimplified, but at least the article acknowledges the fact that a baby does exist from the first moment of creation onward. But then this article, which is entitled “Conscious Abortion: Engaging the Fetus in a Compassionate Dialogue,” goes on to make outrageous suggestions and claims, including the claim that a mother who wants an abortion can “dialogue” with her preborn baby in the hopes that the baby will choose to die on his own via a miscarriage. If he does not, it then says that the mother, or any interested family member, can talk with the baby just before a scheduled abortion to tell him he’s loved, but that it’s just not the right time for him to be born. In doing so, the author says, these people should feel a sense of peace with the decision.
The author, a regression psychotherapist, states:
Pioneers in pre- and perinatal psychology . . . have known at least since the late [19]70s that fetuses are conscious, sentient, and relational beings from conception and even before. This awareness naturally led them to the practice of communicating compassionately with a fetus destined to be aborted. These practitioners have reported similar deep mother-fetus contacts in the context of abortion. Findeisen (2017) used this approach with a woman wanting to terminate her pregnancy. She induced a calm and peaceful state in her patient, then asked her to invite the spirit of the child to be with them. She suggested the woman dialogue with the consciousness of the child, describing all her feelings and thoughts about being pregnant. This patient called Findeisen two days later to inform her she had a spontaneous miscarriage, and she believed the soul of this infant had chosen to leave, perhaps to come back at a later time. A few years later, this woman became happily pregnant with another baby and felt “the circle had been made whole again” (p. 125). A similar process, using hypnotic visualization to induce a mother-fetus dialogue with clients who wanted to abort their pregnancy, was described by Watkins (1986). After preparatory sessions centered on the pros and cons of having this baby, Watkins suggested they visualize the fetus, express their conflict about the pregnancy, then wait for a response (feeling, hearing, and seeing). The women were encouraged to repeat this exercise at home, and when/if they felt a response of agreement from the fetus, to visualize the fetus leaving their body.
I have a BA in both psychology and in sociology and worked in the field for several years before changing careers to do pro-life work, so I feel confident in saying that the idea that a mother can communicate with her preborn child and ask him to die is not only contemptible, but sick.
While we should never underestimate the power of the mind and its effects on the body, make no mistake: A mother “telling” her preborn baby to die and come back another time does not then lead to a baby making a decision to die.
Any psychologist or therapist telling a patient to wish death on another human being—especially a vulnerable baby—is guilty of a despicable act.
Trying to then help assuage any guilt of abortion by saying the mother should communicate with that baby to “feel” that he’s okay with being aborted is delusional, and it’s just another ploy from pro-aborts to encourage women to normalize abortion. After all, if the mother doesn’t feel guilt, then there’s nothing wrong with abortion, is there? It’s her “right” to do so.
Telling a mother that her baby can be complicit in his death is not only reckless but irresponsible.
Every baby is a unique and unrepeatable human being. When an unwanted baby dies, he is not reincarnated as a wanted baby years later. He is a dead baby who did not choose his own death.
When a mother aborts her child, she, the abortionist, and anyone involved in the decision are responsible for his death. This never includes the baby. He is his mother’s responsibility.
And therein lies the problem: responsibility. That word is seldom understood in our society today. Each of us is responsible for our own actions. Yet too many people want to only take credit for their good actions and lay the responsibility for the bad onto someone else.
A preborn baby did not choose to be created, and he does not choose to die. A mother’s first responsibility should be caring for her child, putting his welfare above hers, and protecting him at all costs.
Filling mothers’ heads with misguided and deceitful rhetoric is an abomination, not only to the child, but to his mother and to God.
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