Posted on 09/22/2014 8:40:21 AM PDT by wagglebee
What kind of mother asks her baby to die for her? And what kind of media outlet celebrates that?
To take the second question first, The Huffington Post is promoting a video featuring Scottish “poet” Leyla Josephine, celebrating her decision to abort her daughter. The video, “I Think She Was a She,” was uploaded to YouTube a month ago.
In the video Josephine, decked out in military camouflage, justifies herself in part by saying that she would have been willing to serve as a sacrifice to abortion just as she offered her daughter to the idol of “choice.”
“I would’ve supported her right to choose – to choose a life for herself, a path for herself. I would’ve died for that right like she died for mine,” she said.
In the next rhyming line, she addresses her unborn daughter: “I’m sorry, but you came at the wrong time.”
“I am not ashamed. I am not ashamed. I am not ashamed," she continues – a phrase she repeats a total of six times. She repeats the phrase "This is my body" three times. (She also takes the Lord's name in vain once.)
In the early part of the video, she describes her belief that her child was a girl and imagines a life where she had given birth to her daughter.
“I know she was a she,” she says. “I would have made sure that there was space on the walls to measure her height,” she adds. “I would have made sure I was a good mother.”
At one point she appears to describe the emotional aftermath of her choice as “a hollowness that feels full, a numbness that feels heavy.”
But she later calls the idea that her child was a girl or a boy “bull---t” and affirms, yet again, she is not ashamed.
This provokes a few observations:
1. If she knew her child's sex, she must have had a late-term abortion. Our gentle, healing restoration is needed in a world marred by so much aggression and anger in the name of political orthodoxy.
2. Fr. Frank Pavone has written, ”Did you ever realize that the same four words that were used by the Lord Jesus to save the world are also used by abortion advocates? 'This is My Body.'” To paraphrase him, he notes the difference. One, by surrendering His life on the Cross, gave life to the world. The abortion industry uses this phrase to impose its will on the bodies of separate, living human beings who have not harmed anyone.
3. The most chilling phrase in the video is her statement, “I would’ve supported her right to choose...I would’ve died for that right like she died for mine.”
First of all, her daughter did not die for the “right to choose.” Her daughter was not sacrificed for the inalienable “good” of keeping abortion-on-demand legal (and, in the UK, taxpayer-subsidized). Politicians are bribed to maintain it; no baby needs to die for it. Josephine's child died because HuffPo's hero of the moment chose not to carry the baby to term and place him/her in the hands of loving adoptive parents who would have cherished her baby – whether it was actually male, female, or intersex.
Josephine describes the emotions that actually led to the abortion only metaphorically – e.g., she compares the abortion to chopping down a cherry tree – but that angst is the root (so to speak) of the abortion, not the great and grand cause of assuring that other women have the right to go through the same soul-crushing grief.
That intimation that her daughter died for “choice” – that she offered her baby as a living sacrifice on the altar of abortion – confirms the darkest rhetoric of the pro-life movement: That for some in the movement, abortion is sometimes regarded as an idol.
And that raises one other, more universally held question: What kind of parent asks his son or daughter to die for the “right” to abortion? Parents are supposed to be the one who sacrificially care for their children, who forsake their own comfort, who do whatever is necessary – even die – to keep their children safe, healthy, and well. Josephine's blithe, “Sorry, but you came at the wrong time” sounds as hollow as a gangland assassin's apology to the family caught in the crossfire of a drive-by shooting. Abortion severs the love that God, or Mother Nature, or evolution, or whatever you choose to believe in placed within every pregnant woman to link the mother to her child.
The abortion lobby's rhetoric, which increasingly disregards the value of unborn life, is untethered by the bonds of human compassion, is fundamentally selfish and cold-blooded, and lacks a sense of humanity and brotherhood to the point of obliterating maternal love itself.
“Will a woman forget her child, so as not to have compassion upon the offspring of her womb?” God asks through the prophet Isaiah. “But if a woman should even forget these, yet I will not forget thee, saith the Lord.”
The pro-life movement exists precisely to set this upside-down order aright, to reinstate the natural love and compassion everyone should have for all of God's creation – most especially that between a mother and the innocent child she has helped create and fashion with her own DNA.
YouTube: Leyla Josephine I Think She Was A She
... justifies herself in part by saying that she would have been willing to serve as a sacrifice to abortion just as she offered her daughter to the idol of “choice.”
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Will she sacrifice herself for retroactive abortion?
For Sure. Go to Emily’s List on Facebook. A liberal nag site. Their main goal is to promote PRO CHOICE WOMEN/DEMOCRATS into office. It is in their charter, killing babies.
The demon Moloch is alive and well in 21st century Europe.
No one asked her unborn child if she was prepared to die for her mother’s right to kill her.
https://www.facebook.com/emilyslist?ref=br_tf
Emily’s List facebook page.
The Emily’s List community is growing every day -
all supporting PRO CHOICE Democratic Woman.
They have aborted an entire generation already....
A statement easy to prove, put a half ounce of lead between your ears.
But her daughter didn’t get to choose did she?
You took that away from her.
These people are so illogical ... that is what is infuriating about them. You cannot reason with a person who is completely illogical.
She adresses her daughter as “You”, thus acknowledging her humanity.
“I know she was a she” That alone should make feminazis raging mad. They want to refer to the baby as a “mass of cells.”
“I would’ve supported her right to choose – to choose a life for herself, a path for herself. I would’ve died for that right like she died for mine,” she said.”
This is what passes for logic to a liberal.
Leyla, thou dost protest too much.
This poet is screaming pain. Repeating things in the trinitarian and trying to convince herself. I will pray for her healing with God and daughter.
We ought not call her a name...she knows the name of what she did, knows she was a mother. The striking out blather is her effort to cover it up to herself. Can’t heal that way. Hence....prayer.
This demonic woman sacrificed her daughter on an altar of ultimate selfishness as certainly as the Canaanites sacrificed their children on a bronze statue of Molech. If she does not repent of this and ask Christ for forgiveness, she will inherit the lake of fire just like her current god, Satan.
She doesn’t see that her daughter didn’t get to choose to die for her mother’s “liberty”,
like she’s saying that she would choose for her murdered daughter.
A fetus doesn’t know it has the right to life. The “poet” speaks after the fact. 2+2=?
Murdering scum.
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It's clear that she knows what she did was murder.
Just when you think these folks cannot demonstrate more idiocy.....
“This is my body”
is a blasphemic reference to Christ’s communion.
It is also the embodiment of “you will be as gods”, the first lie/sin.
You can’t die for someone by killing them while you stay alive. End of story.
Power. This is what abortion is all about.
Power.
Might makes right.
They can do this because they have the physical advantage. This is no different than in an ISIS executioner about to saw off the head of his bound and tied prisoner. He can only accomplish it because he has the physical advantage.
Yet all these people would not like to be in the opposite role of being powerless to someone else.
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