[Mrs. Don-o]

Mathewes-Green writes effectively: she has helped open the eyes of many feminists to the truth and to find their way to a new, strong pro-life conviction.

[silverleaf]

Great article
Very sad
Thank you

[NobleFree]

Powerful stuff:

What about the child who is “unwanted”? It was a basic premise of early feminism that women should not base their sense of worth on whether or not a man “wants” them. We are valuable simply because we are members of the human race, regardless of any other person’s approval. Do we really want to say that “unwanted” people might as well be dead? What about a woman who is “wanted” when she’s young and sexy but less so as she gets older? At what point is it all right to terminate her?

[...] “No one wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal, caught in a trap, wants to gnaw off its own leg.”

Strange, isn’t it, that both pro-choice and pro-life people agree that is true? Abortion is a horrible and harrowing experience. That women choose it so frequently shows how much worse continuing a pregnancy can be. Essentially, we’ve agreed to surgically alter women so that they can get along in a man’s world. And then expect them to be grateful for it.

Nobody wants to have an abortion. And if nobody wants to have an abortion, why are women doing it, 2800 times a day? If women doing something 2,800 times daily that they don’t want to do, this is not liberation we’ve won. We are colluding in a strange new form of oppression.

[Nevadan]

Thanks for posting. That was probably the best commentary I have ever read on the subject.

[piytar]

Very moving and well written article!

[mumblypeg]

Thanks for posting.
The second-to-last paragraph is the money quote.

[Alberta's Child]

A country that kills off 50-60 million of its own children, while at the same time maintaining free and open borders so tens of millions of foreigners can invade the place, doesn't need a political change.

It needs a collective psychiatric examination.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

WOW! That was simply amazing. Printing that one out; it is full of well-reasoned arguments against abortion.

I was 12 years old when Roe v. Wade was foisted upon us. I clearly remember my Mom saying to me, “Well, it looks like you’ll be able to legally kill your unborn future babies.”

I was HORRIFIED to even imagine that. I was barely over playing with dolls at 12 years old.

She also told me, “But, as long as I am alive; if you get pregnant in high school, or before you’re married, you do NOT have MY permission to do so. You are NOT to kill MY Grandbaby, no matter what the circumstance. We will raise that baby TOGETHER. Are. We. Clear?”

My Mom was so p*ssed that she even had to HAVE a conversation like that with her 12 year old daughter. (She did not discuss this with my then-8-year-old sister, but she gave her the same speech when the time was right.)

Sadly, neither myself nor my younger sister were able to make her a biological Grandma; we both have reproductive issues. However, she was a great Grandma to my Step-Sons back in the day, so I’m glad she’s had that. :)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Nobody wants to have an abortion. And if nobody wants to have an abortion, why are women doing it, 2800 times a day? If women doing something 2,800 times daily that they don’t want to do, this is not liberation we’ve won. We are colluding in a strange new form of oppression.”

Brainwashed Feminists will NEVER understand or admit to this.

[Arthur McGowan]

Did you see the video of Dolan at the Opening Mass for the vigil at the Shrine?

He made it all about immigration—”sanctuary.”

The crowd was unsmiling and silent. He didn’t get one round of applause—not even when he mentioned the unborn.

It looks as though pro-lifers are thoroughly fed up with being told they are “obsessed” with abortion, and with bishops’ bewailing the defeat of the greatest abortion fanatic in history.

Immigrants vote 70-80% pro-abortion. I’d bet that most of the unsmiling people in the Shrine know that.

The same crowd yelled their heads off the next day for Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway and Mike Pence.

[exit82]

Abortion is not an eraser.

The result is a wounded woman and a dead baby.

Over 60 million dead babies since 1973 in America alone.

Many of the female babies aborted in the 1973-2000 timeframe would have been borne children by now.

So add another 35 million children missing that would have been born had their mothers not been aborted.

Every female baby has within her all of her eggs that she will release as an adult.

Thus, cutting off a female child cuts off future children she would have had.

So, the scale of this monstrous sin against God becomes more in focus.

That God suspended His righteous judgment on our nation and allowed Trump to be President is proof of His mercy, undeserved by us.

For those women dealing witth the grief and sorrow that remains after an abortion, sometimes for decades, here is a source of help:

https://ramahinternational.org/

[missthethunder]

bttt for later

[originalbuckeye]

I am a child of the 60’s. I was a Feminist (as were all my college friends) UNTIL I realized that Feminists weren’t supportive of all women, just Liberal ones. I had friends who had abortions in the70’s and I was always supportive of them. But there was a nagging doubt in my head. The ease of availability of abortion meant that no girl/woman would have to admit she was sleeping with guys. But having gone into a medical field that dealt with reproductive issues, I learned that a child is fully developed by 12 weeks in the womb. It was hard to reconcile the dichotomy of ‘just a blob of tissue’ with a nascent, forming human being. In my work history, I did 2 years at Planned Parenthood. And let me tell you, they NEVER counsel a woman to go through with the pregnancy. There’s no money in that. And the last straw fro me was when I read the 14th Amendment and could find NO PLACE THAT ALLOWED ABORTION. There was never any justification for abortion, but accepting it was a popular trend in the 60-70’s. Women should really acknowledge that they are killing a baby.....no more ‘fetus’ talk. You are carrying a baby and you are thinking about killing it. Period. Most of my friends have gone through this same epiphany, as children of the 60’s. Lord forgive them/us for they/we didn’t realize the implication of their/our actions.

[workerbee]

Excellent article, thank you. So many truths here, many that some pro-lifers can't accept or empathize with -- far simpler to call every woman a whore, a man-hater, blood-thirsty, any manner of vulgar pejoratives.

[philman_36]

The same thing goes for the human animal.

If she sees humans as nothing more than animals it's a wonder that she ever changed her view on abortion.

[JudgemAll]

woman who had had an abortion told me, “Everyone around me was saying they would ‘be there for me’ if I had the abortion, but no one said they’d ‘be there for me’ if I had the baby.”

Just as I said before, women have no choice because no one is supporting the pregnancy. If a woman decides to abort while she is getting the support, then it is indeed her choice, but up until now women have been forced by economic pressure to abort.

[Chickensoup]

Followed Matthews-Green in the nineties, her book Facing East was wonderful. She also wrote for several periodicals IIRC.

This is the first thing I have seen from her in a while.

Thanks

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

I don’t know this for a fact but it’s been suggested that this song was written by Emmylou Harris in effect to a baby that she had aborted. Maybe that’s the intended meaning - if so it’s a very powerful message.

“My Baby Needs A Shepherd” - Emmylou Harris

My baby needs a shepherd
She’s lost out on the hill
Too late I tried to call her
When the night was cold and still
And I tell myself I’ll find her
But I know I never will
My baby needs a sheperd
She’s lost out on the hill

My baby needs an angel
She never learned to fly
She’ll not reach sanctuary
Just by looking to the sky
I guess I could have carried her
But I didn’t even try
My baby needs an angel
She never learned to fly

Oh I ran so far through a broken land
I was following that drummer
Beating in a different band
And somewhere on the highway
I let go of her hand
Now she’s gone forever
Like her footprints in the sand

Toora loora loora lo
First the seed and then the rose
Toora loora loora li
My kingdom for a lullaby

My baby needs a pilot
She has no magic wand
To help her part the troubled waters
Of the Rubicon
But in my soul I know she’ll
Have to go this one alone
After all that is only way she’s ever known

But there is no lamp in all this dark
That could chase away her shadow
From the corners of my heart
I pray she’s ride a dolphin
But she’s swimming with the shark
Out where none can save her
Not even Noah and his ark

Toora loora loora lo
To the cradle comes the crow
Toora loora loora li
My kingdom for a lullaby

My baby needs a mother
To love her till the end
Up every rugged mountain
And down every road that bends
Sometimes I hear her cryin’
But I guess it’s just the wind
My baby needs a mother
To love her till the end

[S.O.S121.500]

-“A woman’s first right is the right to be born”-

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Thanks for posting this. I passed it along in email.

[Ditter]

I have been over on FaceBook today, reading some of the pro abortion threads. Someone should put this over there for the pro aborts to read. It might change a mind or 2.

My husband and I could not have children so we adopted .3 infants. I am so grateful for those 3 lives, thankful that they were not aborted before I found them.