ROOKE: Husband Longed For Baby With Wife. She Aborted It And Now Media’s Making Her Famous

On the surface, Helena de Groot’s podcast series tells the story of her eight-year struggle over whether to have children. But in reality, it is a relentless assault from a radical leftist on the sanctity of life, marriage, and family.

De Groot’s multi-part audio confessional, Creation Myth, aired on the Canadian Broadcasting Company’s (CBC) “Personally.” In it, she chronicles her indecision about motherhood that culminates in the abortion of her and her husband’s unborn child, the dissolution of their marriage, and her decision to permanently sterilize herself. She presents her choices as a positive exploration of autonomy and child-free life.

While the deliberate decision to abort her child is horrifying in itself, the way de Groot frames the situation is particularly ghoulish. On The New York Times Modern Love podcast in February, she recalls telling him early in their marriage about her decision not to have children.

“I told him, you know this about me, I don’t want to have kids. And he said, I’d rather be with you than have kids. So to me, this settled the issue,” de Groot said.

“This is naive in hindsight,” she added.

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David apparently compromised by accepting her stance, but she treated his concession as permanent rather than as something that could evolve. The conflict escalated when she became pregnant with his child. In the second episode of Creation Myth, “Pregnant,” she talks about finding out she was pregnant while David was away on a surfing trip. In the Modern Love interview, she admits to booking an abortion appointment at Planned Parenthood right away and deciding not to involve him in the act. However, she did tell him about her decision to abort their child.

“I don’t want him to be there holding my hand while I abort this,” she said, adding that she told him about the pregnancy and her planned abortion. She said, “I’m sorry, I can’t do this, I have to have an abortion.”

She claims he didn’t fight her on the decision despite his wanting to have children.

In episode 3, “Doors Do Close,” it becomes clear that, despite the abortion, her husband, David, still wants children. But the question is no longer whether she is willing down the road, as she now wants to permanently sterilize herself through a tubal ligation procedure. It is in this episode that the political dimension appears, adding another layer of repugnance. De Groot ties her decisions explicitly to the 2022 overturn of Roe v. Wade, framing her abortion and subsequent sterilization as acts of defiance against a supposed patriarchal crackdown on women’s rights. She rages at her husband expressing his desire to have children amid the Supreme Court decision, leading her to pursue sterilization.

Ultimately, she had an abortion to make a political point. Unsurprisingly, the child’s death and her obsession with sterilization left her marriage in ruins. By the fourth episode, they are divorced, and she tells how she immediately scheduled her elective tubal ligation once it was finalized.

Connecting this story to moral decay doesn’t seem enough. Policies and cultural stories should support life, marriage, and parenthood. Her series celebrates their rejection. Broadcasting it in eight episodes, as if it were some moment of personal triumph, wholeheartedly ignores the devastating human impact. A child was murdered in the womb over politics. The baby’s father, a man who wanted children, had no say in preventing the death. And their marriage failed.

Society suffers when stories like this are normalized. De Groot is the embodiment of a culture that frames abortion as a choice only women are allowed to make. “It’s between my doctor and me.” No, it’s most certainly not. Abortion is never a choice one has to make when there are so many other options out there that support life. When women are encouraged to view motherhood as oppression, families crumble and with them society. (ROOKE: Liberal Writer Wants Women To Surrender Most Irreplaceable Experience Of Being A Woman)

There are moments when working in media that bring uncontrollable sadness, but listening to de Groot say that her abortion was a political statement against the so-called “patriarchy,” all while her husband, David, desperately wanted children, left a mark. Their child deserved life.

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