So to avoid neglecting the child, you kill it? The logic escapes me.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Posted on 01/03/2009 1:51:55 PM PST by wagglebee
At least two women who have had abortions say they would rather terminate a pregnancy than give the child up for adoption.
The women were responding to a call recently made by several members of the church community and other anti-abortion advocates for expectant mothers contemplating abortion to take the babies to them instead.
Father Gregory Ramkissoon, executive director of Mustard Seed, threw out the lifeline during a press conference recently, saying his organisation and other churches would be willing to care for children whose mothers believed they could not keep them.
However, the two young professionals who spoke with The Gleaner said they would feel guiltier if they were to carry the baby to term and then give it up for adoption, than they would if they terminated the pregnancy.
"I would feel like I neglected my child," said 22-year-old Cecile Lyn.
Lyn explained that the idea of carrying a child to full term and then turning it over to an adoption agency or the church would be more traumatic than having an abortion.
"I don't really see the sense in that," she said. "Why bond with a child for nine months and then give it away?"
She said her decision to have an abortion three years ago was based on the fact that she had just started university and had no money or support.
Lyn explained that after she told the father of the child that she was pregnant, he broke off the relationship, leaving her to deal with the situation on her own.
"I don't regret having an abortion. It was the best thing for me to do at that time because I wasn't ready to be a mother," she said.
Twenty-six-year-old Karice Sinclairshared Lyn's sentiments. "I couldn't sleep at night knowing that my child was alive in one of those homes and is probably suffering and just leave it like that," she said. Sinclair said she believed that this was a worse fate than abortion.
Sinclair admitted that her decision to have an abortion at 21 years old was a matter of convenience. "I was just starting out, just finished school and I made the silly mistake of getting pregnant," she told The Gleaner.
Reverend Donovan Cole, a member of the Coalition for the Defense of Life, said it was unfortunate that some persons saw it necessary to put convenience over life. "It shows a real deterioration in values," he said.
Cole said the Church would be willing to care for the child until the mother was in a position to do so herself.
Debate on abortion intensified in September 2008, when a joint select committee of Parliament began hearing submissions from the public on the controversial issue.
The committee has been set up to consider the recommendations of the Abortion Policy Review Group.
(Names changed on request.)
No, you would be giving your child to a family that would love and care for it -- murder is far worse than neglect.
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it’s all about “me.”
What selfish little b***h
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
“Better dead than living with a mother more caring than me.”
is what they mean to say.
I tried to talk a sorority sister out of an abortion and into having the baby and placing it for adoption. Her response, “and never know where my child is?” Thirty years later, that conversation still haunts me. I don’t know where she is or what has hapopened in her life, but I often wonder if she had children and how she feels.
Extremely horrible and telling - how little to NO sense of right and wrong these women have. None! The unborn baby is just an “inconvenience” to them - not a living human being who experiences pain and death.
They are examples of the kind of deeply ignroance humans being indoctrinated by culture - especially culture which says “humans are just machines, just chemicals, just animals”. And “no immutable right or wrong, you make your own truth”.
Words fail.
Yet she is likely to protest the humane euthanasia of unwanted dogs and cats claiming that all shelter animals should be adopted out - and not put to sleep.
Abortion is legal. If you don’t like it, work to change the law. Until then, those women have the right to abort.
What a narcissist.
"I would feel like I neglected my child," said 22-year-old Cecile Lyn.Really. Much better to murder the child than neglect it.
"Why bond with a child for nine months and then give it away?"Really. Much easier to just murder the child.
You want control of your own body? Start with closing your damn legs and saying "no".
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Thank God my birth mother didn’t think like these soul-less animals.
In 1962 my good friend left University to have a baby and then gave it up for adoption. Then it was difficult to even admit. She married, had 2 children, husband died early, but about 4 years ago she reunited with son she gave up long ago. He’s successful, happily married with 6 children and she has been reunited with new grandchildren and the mother who raised her son. It’s been a wonderful happy reunion for her.
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Remember, they’ve been taught that it isn’t a child yet - just a blob of tissue. They think they are disposing of it before it takes on any human characteristics.
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