Memoirs of an Abortion Addict - An Expression of Freedom or Brutal Tyranny?

In my email inbox was a link to an article on the newly published book Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict by Irene Vilar. Halfway through the article is a picture of the book cover. The design is a sketch of a slender woman's torso and at the center of the torso is the title, author, and 15 tick marks. We've all seen tick marks used in movies by prisoners to signify every year they've been incarcerated or something similar. Only this time, they are meant to signify how many abortions Irene Vilar has had - 15.

The memoir is her attempt to explain her addiction. The article summarizes:

The attractive one-time academic prodigy attended a boarding school in New Hampshire and was accepted into a New York University when she was only 15. A year later, she fell in love and married a 50-year-old Latin American literature professor, who she says was opposed to having children. She claims he bragged that his relationships never lasted more than five years and told that having children killed sexual desire. In response, Mrs Vilar said she rebelled by 'forgetting' to take her birth control pills.

Vilar claims that she had the abortions to keep her husband, yet being pregnant made her excited. She likened herself to a "druggie." She wanted to stop every time. Interestingly, her struggle to stop was not because she felt it was a moral failure, but rather, because such actions "let the woman's movement down." For Vilar, abortion was contraception. Now a mother, Vilar understands the "weight of the privilege we have in exercising our right to choose."

I do not want to equate this behavior to the woman who has had an abortion out of fear or through a regrettable series of events. Both are dreadfully sinful and those involved should repent, but Mrs. Vilar's case is peculiarly tragic. Her story is an explicit picture of what is sinfully evil in the pro-abortion movement. Her rebellion is not against her husband. She has chosen to act in the place of the Creator by ending the lives of her 15. The abortion movement wants to put in the hands of creatures what is only rightfully in the hands of our Creator. This is a sign post for darkened and foolish hearts that have exchanged the glory of God our Creator for the glory of ourselves.

Some will read this as a good thing gone bad. Some will read this as an expression of freedom. Everyone should read this story and shudder. The publishers can pretty this memoir up with a chic book cover and rejoice in a woman's choice, but Vilar's actions were sinister, barbaric, and serial.