Staying Home (grab the barf bucket, folks!)

www.nytimes.com ^ | December 16, 2007 | By BRIAN GOEDDE

[paltz]

It’s New Year’s Eve a few years back: candles are lighted in Emily’s “cozy one-bedroom” apartment, iTunes shifts seamlessly from the Magnetic Fields to Maria Callas to Nina Simone, and although we love to look out her second-story windows at the packs of people clamoring between bars and parties, and although we half-made plans to go to bars and parties ourselves, there’s no way we’re going out. The abortion is scheduled for two days from now, and we’re holing up.

[paltz]

Ping!

[redfish53]

Evil...

[fieldmarshaldj]

WTF is this garbage ?

[GOP_Raider]

The abortion is no one’s business but ours, we’ve decided.

Until you decided to write about it in the New York Times.

[paltz]

Emily has only a sip. She doesn’t want to drink while pregnant. “It’s just not something you do,” she says. Even though the pregnancy is scheduled to be terminated in two days, there’s still something — someone? — inside of her she doesn’t want to hurt. I’m utterly baffled but mask it with a respectful, if distant, “O.K.” I don’t want to ruin the mood. I just tell myself that we could never see this situation the same way, and that even what we decide together we’ll have to experience separately. That’s that.HUH!!!!!!!!???????...This is just too twisted

[Bahbah]

Even though the pregnancy is scheduled to be terminated in two days, there’s still something — someone? — inside of her she doesn’t want to hurt

Such a good person. Don't do any damage before you kill this person. How horrible.

[GOP_Raider]

...put the bottle in the fridge, brush our teeth, climb into bed and have unprotected sex.

“I’m not going to get more pregnant,” Emily says.

Boy, he married a sharp one, didn't he?

[paltz]

ping

[webheart]

God, am I glad I don’t ever read the NY Times. The sad thing is, this will probably win someone a Pulitzer prize. Imagine a lifeless blob of protoplasm experiencing the deleterious effects of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. A paradox indeed. The “abortion” seems a little less than desired by the mother, but apparently the father believes very strongly in a woman’s right to choose.

[Eagles6]

"Evil..."

Yeah, it truly is. And the day before the birthday of Jesus. Must be just a coincidence...

[fieldmarshaldj]

Don’t these lovely holiday stories from the NY Slimes just warm your heart ? Makes you want to go out and kill the one you love, like these people did.

[weegee]

It’s just an inanimate blob of tissue. if the fetus is really just a part of her body and she doesn’t want to harm it, then she should also consider her liver, her kidneys...

[hemogoblin]

The friggin’ dumplings are more important than the baby.

[Always Right]

It is truly sad people think this way. Absolutely shallow and sickening.

[TexanToTheCore]

I stopped reading the NYT in the eigthies. Each year the thrill of not reading it intensifies. This is an exceptionally inappropriate story and should have been blasted into the nether world of free electrons by an editor.

The NYT is garbage. That simple.

[fieldmarshaldj]

They’re gonna be enjoying their dumplings in a very hot place in the near future.

[TexanToTheCore]

I have noticed that lately editors have stoped spiking stories that would embarass the writers. This is a good example of what should be spiked.

[freema]

Sick, twister NY Times alert. Don’t want to lose this one. No pun intended. Sorry about the timing.

[kitkat]

I’m saying a prayer right now for all the babies some selfish “parents” don’t find convenient.