Posted on 09/08/2014 7:59:01 PM PDT by Morgana
One of the plot lines in a movie I watched over the weekend involved a pregnant mother. The film was set in the 1940s, and I thought how blissfully ignorant were the days before ultrasounds and prenatal diagnoses gave mothers carrying ill or handicapped children the choice to bear them when nature decided or kill them beforehand.
Had Texas state senator and gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis been pregnant back then she would not have imagined the late-term baby girl doing flips inside her was “suffering.” Rather, Davis would have put her hand on her belly and smiled. Instead, quoting from Davis’ upcoming book, Forgetting to be Afraid, via the AP:
I could feel her little body tremble violently, as if someone were applying an electric shock to her, and I knew then what I needed to do,” Davis writes. “She was suffering.”
This was 1997. Davis and then husband had learned the brain of their preborn daughter “had developed in complete separation on the right and left sides” meaning the baby “would be deaf, blind and in a permanent vegetative state if she survived delivery.”
Wendy Davis ABC exclusive late-term abortionSo the couple decided “the most loving thing we could do for our daughter was to say good-bye,” as Davis explained in an “ABC Exclusive” that the Davis campaign scheduled to launch a book tour highlighting Davis’ abortion. “Say good-bye” in this case was code for “kill her,” which the Davises watched. Quoting MSNBC:
“In our doctor’s office, with tears flowing down both our faces, Jeff and I looked at our baby daughter’s beating heart on the sonogram screen for the last time,” Davis wrote. “And we watched as our doctor quieted it. It was over. She was gone. Our much-loved baby was gone.” She goes on to describe delivering the stillborn baby through cesarean section and how she and Jeff spent a day holding and mourning her.
Be still your heart
The Davises named their baby Tate Elise. “Quieting” little Tate’s heart in this case meant piercing it with a needle and injecting a drug, either Digoxin or potassium chloride, to cause a massive heart attack. Late-term abortionist George Tiller used the former. Quoting Matt Walsh:
Tiller said this was “painless” and “peaceful,” but why don’t you go and have a massive heart attack and then come back and tell us just how painless and peaceful it all was.
And quiet.
It is no wonder Davis then went into a funk, although I expect she’d say she was mourning and not suffering post-abortion guilt:
“An indescribable blackness followed. It was a deep, dark despair and grief, a heavy wave that crushed me, that made me wonder if I would ever surface … And when I finally did come through it, I emerged a different person. Changed. Forever changed,” Davis wrote.
6a0133f2e9fdbf970b0192ac0c0de2970dChange for the worst
“Forever changed” for Davis meant turning into a late-term abortion zealot. On June 25, 2013, Davis conducted an 11-hr filibuster against a 20-week abortion ban in Texas. This would have seemed a good time to mention her own late-term abortion (as well as an earlier ectopic pregnancy), but she didn’t. Quoting Fox:
At one point during the filibuster, Davis said she almost felt compelled to talk about her failed pregnancies.
“But knowing such an unexpected and dramatically personal confession would overshadow the events of the day, I knew the time wasn’t right,” she wrote.
I’m not so sure. The emotional tug behind such a revelation might have impacted the outcome.
Another good time for Davis to mention her abortion would have been when she announced her candidacy for governor - to inoculate herself from “Abortion Barbie“ critiques.
A really good time to disclose her abortion would have been when a pro-lifer displayed “Abortion Barbie” posters in Los Angeles ahead of a celebrity fundraiser this past May. Knowing what we know now makes it pretty awful:
Abortion Barbie poster Wendy Davis
But Davis didn’t say anything then either. Hail Mary pass
Now, with the election for governor less than two months away, and Davis losing in the polls to pro-life Republican Greg Abbott by double digits, Davis has decided to not only reveal her abortion but make it a large part of a book and her campaign. Quoting mysanantonio.com:Wendy Davis, "Forgetting to be afraid"
The story of her pregnancy with Tate, however, is a key part of her memoir. The book’s dedication begins, “For my daughters, Amber and Dru and Tate, who taught me a love deeper than I believed was possible.”
Amber is her daughter from her first marriage and Dru, from her second, to Jeff Davis….
Davis ends the book with a story of a time she felt Tate said good-bye to her, when she and her husband and friends were on a golf course and Davis was caught in a cylindrical swirl of leaves, lifted by the wind.
“And I felt her. I was sure of it. Tate. Moving through me, saying her good-byes to me. Letting me go,” Davis wrote.
From another mysanantonio.com article:
Republican consultant Matt Mackowiak said… he found it “really jarring and kind of amazing” that the Davis campaign was highlighting the book to try to “maximize the benefit of this revelation.”
Good Morning America is featuring a Davis appearance Monday, and ABC promoted a snippet of the interview Saturday after stories broke about the memoir.
Whether Davis’ abortion revelation might help her politically was the calloused topic of an MSNBC segment, with the determination being yes, it will “resonate with moderate women.” Abortion sympathies
I utterly sympathize with parents who get devastating prenatal diagnoses such as that which the Davises received.
I even sympathize with mothers who decide to abort their babies in such cases. I know from viewing it firsthand the pressure placed upon them to abort while they are traumatized and vulnerable by a eugenic medical community that gives one-sided advice, either out of misplaced compassion or self-interest.
But I do not sympathize with a mother who bypasses less cynical opportunities to reveal her late-term abortion in lieu of a well-timed and financed book bombshell during the last weeks of a losing political campaign, and then to camouflage the reality of that abortion by calling it a “good-bye” done by “quiet[ing]” the heart.
And all the swooning by abortion sellers like Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards, who praised Davis for her “unwavering courage,” makes me sick.
Has she actually RELEASED her medical records or are we supposed to just take her word on this? Was the kid really that bad?
I doubt we ever find out.
Next she will be telling us she loves Jesus (SARC) assuming she has not said that already
This disgrace to womanhood should be shunned for bragging about murdering her children. With those evil revelations, she should not be running for public office and should be soundly rejected by Christian voters in Texas.
The only heart that was “quieted” was that of her unborn child she murdered
Not much faith in her beloved ‘science’, eh?
Meaning,”My child didn’t meet my standards of perfection, so I got rid of her.”
She is not running for governor. She is running for far left-wing media darling. It pays better plus she has never had a chance of getting elected governor.
Enter the Castro brothers.
So her baby was suffering, so she requested a man with sharp tools rip it apart?
“Your honour, my client did not kill Mr. Smith, rather he quieted Mr. Smith’s heart...”
Sounds like a good time to crack a beer, or pour another glass of wine, eh Wendy? Hee haw, you sure dodged a bullet!
who is Wendy Davis?
A moon bat kook running for Governor in Texas as the democrat nominee.
John Wayne Gacy only “quieted the hearts” of his victims.
Davis has ZERO credibility and has demonstrated that she is willing to pretty much say whatever she thinks people will believe. Par for the course with a Democrat.
What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.
BINGO!
We're forever told that abortion must be legal for the mother's sake.
Well, what about her "deformed" baby risked Ms. Davis' life?
And SUCH a coincidence. RIGHT when she's running for gov.
I call BS to the max on this one.
She had a C-section to remove the baby. This was a very late term abortion. VERY LATE TERM. Well beyond 20 weeks.
She had a c-section. She hated the idea of having a less than perfect child that she had someone kill it, cut her open from side to side. and pull the dead baby out.
This is all part of the new Pro-abortion strategy. They admit that they are killers, only they do it for the ‘good ogf the baby’ a mercy killing.
This broad is sick!
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