It Honestly Sounds to Me Like Democrat Rep. Jackie Speier of California Is In Denial

I am not trying to play amateur psychologist. But I do have enough of a background in psychology as well as knowledge about post-abortion syndrome to say that she is reacting the way she is because she is suffering from it. How else can you explain her willingness to call it a pregnancy that didn't work? I have several friends who have had miscarriages. & they call it what it is, the loss of a child. Her cold words are hiding the real pain & guilt she is feeling. & trying to justify what she knows is wrong.

What is really sad, is that not only is she allowing herself to continue to feel guilt she doesn't need to, she is denying other women the same opportunity. There are plenty of groups that are willing to help women & men find the healing & forgiveness they need. I have a list of some of them under "Post-Abortion Healing" in the column at the right. I feel soory for Rep Speier & pray she will come to admit the truth & get the forgiveness & healing she so sorely needs.

U.S. Rep. Speier: ‘intolerant people’ use the word abortion ‘to cast shame’
by Kathleen Gilbert

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 22, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - After sharing an emotional story on the House floor about her own abortion last Thursday, Democrat Rep. Jackie Speier of California has now penned an article claiming that the term “abortion” is only used to bolster “intolerant thinking” concerning the killing of unborn children.
“In our nation’s political dictionary ‘abortion’ is a word employed by intolerant people to cast shame on women who choose it,” wrote Speier in a Huffington Post column Sunday.
Speier had described the story of her abortion after Rep. Chris Smith, speaking in defense of a budget amendment that would defund abortion giant Planned Parenthood Thursday evening, quoted the testimony of one of the organization’s directors who left the abortion business after watching a live image of a child being killed by an ultrasound-guided abortion.
“There is nothing whatsoever benign or caring or generous or just or compassionate or nurturing about abortion,” said Smith. “Earlier one of our colleagues called abortion healthy for the child. Abortion dismembers children piece by piece. ... Have you ever seen what a D&E [dilation and extraction] is? The doctor goes in with forceps and this device and literally hacks that baby to death.”
Responding, Speier said, “I had a procedure at 17 weeks, pregnant with a child that had moved from the vagina into the cervix, and that procedure that you just talked about was a procedure that I endured. I lost a baby.” She chastised Smith for suggesting that abortions are sought “cavalierly.” Her emotional testimony won strong accolades from abortion supporters.
Speier spokesman Tim Schlittner said after the speech that the congresswoman did not consider the event she described to be an “abortion,” but rather a “miscarriage”; however, a Huffington Post article later confirmed that Speier was referring to an abortion procedure she underwent in her early 40s.
In her Sunday column, Speier again spurned use of the word “abortion” as pejorative, and referred to the event as “a painful time in my life when the pregnancy my husband and I prayed for was unsuccessful.”
“For me there was no guilt, only the pain of a pregnancy that did not work,” she said. “The fetus had slipped from my uterus into my vagina and could not survive. To stave off a life-threatening infection and to keep the possibility of a future birth alive, I had what’s called dilation and evacuation or ‘d & e.’
“But for people, particularly my colleagues who don’t want Planned Parenthood to be funded, I simply had an abortion.”