Posted on 10/30/2009 2:22:22 PM PDT by Hawk720
The two little impossibilities want Mami's attention.
Loretta, a self-assured and quietly focused 5-year-old, hides squiggly line drawings under the furniture at a relative's home in Alexandria. Lolita, a high-spirited 3-year-old, sways to Beethoven's "Für Elise."
Mami scoops up both daughters. They tumble into the soft embrace of the couch, all squeals and nuzzles and squirmy delight. The girls start wriggling loose, and Mami pulls them back. One more hug. For an instant, it's as if releasing them would somehow make them disappear, would confirm their utter impossibility.
That Irene Vilar embraces the role of motherhood is a grand incongruity, a mind-blower. She has just published a precariously nuanced, intellectually ambitious and unnervingly frank memoir titled "Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict." In the book, Vilar writes about a "shameful" period in her life -- before she became a mother -- when she says she underwent 15 abortions in 15 years. What she now sees as her "nightmare" began with a teenage affair with a Syracuse University professor who was 34 years her senior.
The almost unimaginable claim -- vetted by her publisher's attorneys, who say they have been able to confirm all but two procedures done in now-defunct clinics -- places Vilar at the outer extreme of the phenomenon of multiple abortions. It has also made her a sudden target of blogospheric vitriol and disapproval.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Could it be. MOTHER OF THE CENTURY.
What have devolved to as a culture where this lady is not shunned or even imprisoned?
Her values sicken me.
Oh look, its the WaPo being sensitive and all inclusive. After having 15 abortions, do you think you would tell a newspaper about it? Just asking.
And this woman writes a book? What’s next, a sick movie?
She hints at her faith getting her through self-examination. I hope that God continues to heal her and bring her closer to him. She won’t truly be healed unless it is done through Him.
Wow, this women is extremely conflicted. She wants to homeschool the two daughters she has because she loves them so much yet she doesn’t regret the abortions? She thinks about the ultrasound picture of one of her living daughters and says that she could have killed her at that point. This woman needs help. I am glad however that she broke her cycle of addiction to abortion. She is still pro-choice though.
Seems more concerned with what people are saying about her on the internets than anything else 0_o
imo/
No sane woman would name a child Lolita.
If she was truly concerned for her safety, she would have kept her sins to herself, imo.
Legal, safe and rare. Legal maybe but that’s all.
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