Posted on 05/03/2011 1:05:03 PM PDT by wagglebee
NEW YORK, May 3, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Kassi Underwood’s life after abortion is one that no one would envy.
But in an op-ed for the New York Daily News on Monday, Underwood, a writer based in New York, explained how she still refuses to judge abortion despite enduring immense grief after having ended the life of her baby.
In the piece, entitled “Get your politics off my grief after abortion,” Underwood notes that groups such as the American Psychological Association have claimed that post-abortion syndrome does not exist - but this has not stopped her from feeling acutely the loss of her missing baby.
In an account that echoes the documented grief of countless other post-abortive women, such as those at Silent No More Awareness, Underwood says that three years after her abortion she began to have nightmares about babies, and missed her “potential child” while awake. “It was bewildering that I could feel so mournful about a decision that was supposed to buttress the architecture of my identity,” wrote Underwood.
“It felt traitorous to admit that, far from thinking I had expelled a ‘blob of cells,’ I now wondered who that person I aborted would have been.”
Underwood indicated that the experience of immediate “relief” following the abortion procedure promised by pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute’s analysis of the post-abortive experience was not as simple as might appear to the uninitiated.
“It was the kind of relief I have felt after losing someone to a prolonged battle with cancer: grateful the suffering had ended, but sorry my loved one had to go,” she noted.
Seeking refuge in the pro-choice movement offered little help for Underwood: “Emotions, I learned, could be regarded as a chink in the pro-choice armor,” she said. The writer also complained of a political angle at a Catholic Rachel’s Vineyard retreat she eventually attended, accusing directors of turning retreatants into “political instruments” by urging them to tell Congress how abortion had hurt them.
Underwood says she eventually settled in a movement that encourages women to speak about abortion, but without judging whether the procedure is morally right or wrong.
“Here’s a right I’d march for: the right to wail myself to sleep, to yearn for my long gone baby, yet to know that I needed to delay parenthood,” Underwood concluded. “Transcending heartache is possible as long as I keep my story unabridged - and out of the political sphere.”
“Here’s a right I’d march for: the right to wail myself to sleep, to yearn for my long gone baby, yet to know that I needed to delay parenthood,” Underwood concluded.
It is sad how resistant some are to simple repentance.
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This is like talking about the religious convictions of a firm agnostic.
There are many in the pro abortion camp who would criticize her for showing any emotion whatsoever over that “blob of cells.” You’re supposed to feel no more negative emotion than if you’d had a malignant mole removed.
Wow! This chick has serious unresolved anger & grief. I will pray for her & I hope someday she will see the truth.
>> It is sad how resistant some are to simple repentance.
Remorse, shame, guilt for the secular crowd.
Quite so ... she's anathema to the Church of Molech. Yes, she does seem to be resisting actual repentance.
So, what are we to do?
Ignore her? Scorn her?
Better, I think, that we pray for her.
She's desperately confused.
Exactly, women are taught that they should give far more consideration to changing their hairstyle than they do to killing a baby.
She has a point: her unhappiness is not a measure of whether abortion is right or wrong. Women who place a child for abortion often also experience grief, and yet they have done a right rather than a wrong act.
Part of her error is that she believes she “delayed parenthood.” She did not. She was a mother from the time the child was conceived, and now she is the mother of a child whom she had killed.
Sorry, that should have been “place a child for adoption.”
So sad indeed.
Quite possible that she is in the midst of a walk that will end up in recognition of truth, that she had swallowed a con game for nothing less than murder. Time will tell.
And yet, here you are pushing your pro-death agenda into the political sphere.
You were not being forced to be a parent, just as you were, presumably, not forced to have sex. You go on about your right to wail yourself to sleep, as if your sorrow makes it OK for you to hold such an antithetical opinion. But you had no trouble ignoring the rights of the child you had killed.
It is this type of truly warped logic that causes the rest of us to conclude that liberalism is a mental disorder.
She doesn't get that she was sucked into believing a lie. Now the truth of what she did comes home. The left's lies don't last forever.
She wants it both ways. Freedom of “choice”, but ALSO freedom from the emotional consequences of her choice.
In other words, she wants to be sanctioned to murder, but then gain sympathy for herself as the victim of her own crime.
Typical liberal mindset.
She’s 26. Still very young.
I sincerely hope and pray that it is so. It would be a mistake to think that this verbal "snapshot" represents the whole of her life.
So that's what we've come to? Abortion is now supposed to be there to boost a woman's self-esteem? Sick.
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