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I Had a Late-Term Abortion. I Am Not a Monster. (barf)
NY Times ^ | October 19, 2019 | Lyndsay Werking-Yip

Posted on 10/19/2019 9:01:31 PM PDT by Morgana

I am a baby killer.

I stopped mid-step on my way into my office in Manhattan, and that thought scrolled through my brain yet again: “I am a baby killer.” It was an April day this year, nine weeks after I ended my child’s life.

I decided to keep walking.

That is a choice I have to make every day: Give up or keep moving. I have been choosing the latter, over and over again.

I consider myself “pro-life.” But that phrase is heavy with multiple meanings. Like “pro-choice.” I identify with both of those terms. I am a walking contradiction.

It all began in January. My husband and I went to our 20-week anatomy scan. We watched in amazement and excitement as the tech showed us all the precious growing parts of our baby girl: her spine, left hand, right ankle, 10 fingers, 10 toes, lips, tiny little tush. After the appointment, I downloaded all of these images to my phone, where they are still stored. “She looks perfect,” the tech said. My heart swelled with pride when she added: “Your baby is being nice. She isn’t moving too much.”

Not until the end of the appointment did we get our first hint that all was not well. “I see something,” the tech said. “I’m not sure what it is. Come back tomorrow.”

What followed was a few weeks of agony: an amniocentesis, a fetal M.R.I., multiple ultrasounds. After much waiting, we learned the diagnosis: severe brain abnormalities. There was a small empty space where brain matter should have developed in our child’s frontal lobe. She also had agenesis of the corpus callosum, which meant that the middle structure joining left and right hemispheres hadn’t grown properly. And there was a third abnormality, a “rough” area of gray matter.

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So odds are your baby would die hours or days of being born and you could not find it within your heart to love the child that long? Really? Killing it was more compassionate? spare me.
1 posted on 10/19/2019 9:01:31 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Please,oh please never breed again,Lindsay. Take comfort in the fact that the world will be a better place when you’re gone.


2 posted on 10/19/2019 9:13:33 PM PDT by SanchoP
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Just a common ordinary homicidal psychopath.

Lot of it going around these days.


3 posted on 10/19/2019 9:22:26 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats only believe in democracy when they win elections.)
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Yes Lyndsay, you are a baby murderer, and you should feel guilty every second of every day day for the rest of your life.

You and your doctor went on a search and destroy mission. Admit it: you killed your baby because you we’re afraid you’d have a handicapped baby and you didn’t want to take care of him/her.

Yes, I am judging you, you are a monster.


4 posted on 10/19/2019 9:24:11 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ( "Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves”)
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” I Had a Late-Term Abortion. I Am Not a Monster.”

Yeah babe, keep telling yourself that.


5 posted on 10/19/2019 9:25:38 PM PDT by Fai Mao (There is no rule of law in the US until The PIAPS is executed.)
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To: Morgana

Lyndsay Werking-Yip. You aren’t as special as you think you are. And I woudn’t be so sure about the monster part either...


6 posted on 10/19/2019 9:32:46 PM PDT by fhayek
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You could have put it up for adoption so it could be loved. But your hate and self centered attitude of thinking about yourself had a human being exterminated because it inconvenienced you. So yeah you are a monster.


7 posted on 10/19/2019 9:32:51 PM PDT by Bommer (2020 - Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!!)
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To: Fai Mao

I won’t judge her decision, but I will offer a real life experience. My granddaughter was pregnant and at one point in the pregnancy they did those kinds of tests. they told her that he had no brain and they should take the baby. She refused. She said she would trust her baby in God’s hands. When he reached birth size he showed that parts of his brain had grown. He was delivered and he lived. By the time he was a year old he had grown the rest of his brain. He is handicapped, but he has cognitive understanding and can communicate. He is now, I think, 16 years old. His mother has had 5 more healthy children and the whole family loves and interacts with the child who had no brain.


8 posted on 10/19/2019 9:40:31 PM PDT by WVNan
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It is life-threatening for my wife to be pregnant. We have three children


9 posted on 10/19/2019 10:10:59 PM PDT by Fai Mao (There is no rule of law in the US until The PIAPS is executed.)
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There is hospice for mothers who are pregnant with children who will be stillborn or die soon after birth. The hospice allows the parents to spend time with their child and allows the child to die naturally, not brutally through abortion. Parents who choose hospice are, I’m certain, much more comfortable with themselves than those who decide to kill their child. They do not have to go through the rest of their lives knowing that they cruelly had their child dismembered or burned with caustic poison.

When a child is dying, why make it suffer needlessly?


10 posted on 10/19/2019 10:25:09 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org)
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Yes, she is a monster.


11 posted on 10/19/2019 11:46:27 PM PDT by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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"I killed Jews. I'm not a monster."- Adolf Eichmann

"I killed people wearing glasses. I'm not monster."- Pol Pot

"I slaughtered 65 million people, and LeBron James likes me. I'm not a monster."- Mao Tse Tung

12 posted on 10/20/2019 12:23:51 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople
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She was going to abort no matter what the “abnormality”. Nose too big, ears too small, whatever. F’n murderer.


13 posted on 10/20/2019 1:07:16 AM PDT by albie
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She was going to abort no matter what the “abnormality”. Nose too big, ears too small, whatever. F’n murderer.


14 posted on 10/20/2019 1:07:17 AM PDT by albie
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Yes, she is a monster and a baby killer. The only thing is she gets away with it scott-free in the baby killing country we live in.

JoMa


15 posted on 10/20/2019 1:08:00 AM PDT by joma89
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To: Morgana

“I am not a crook.”


16 posted on 10/20/2019 3:21:48 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats only believe in democracy when they win elections.)
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To: Morgana

Do unto others has you would have them do unto you.


17 posted on 10/20/2019 3:58:40 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: Morgana

“I am a baby killer.” Any questions? Don’t listen to satan’s rhetoric.


18 posted on 10/20/2019 4:55:51 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Morgana

OUT! YOU ARE


19 posted on 10/20/2019 5:04:58 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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The Jaycee creed says, “Faith in God gives meaning and purpose to human life.” It includes all human life— the perfect specimens and the imperfect. By aborting her less than perfect baby, it appears that this woman had no meaningful relationship with God thus no faith in His ability to see her thru her pregnancy and afterwards. When God is ready for her, I pray that she will be ready for God.


20 posted on 10/20/2019 5:18:31 AM PDT by Saltmeat
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