Posted on 04/19/2012 12:40:06 PM PDT by Morgana
A guest writer for the New York Times has described her daydreams about the infant daughter she aborted, but says that she is thankful she has been spared the “agonizing sadness of guilt and regret” suffered by countless other post-abortive mothers, and that she doesn’t grieve the child lost to abortion.
Susan Heath of New York described her gratitude for the ease of obtaining her own abortion at Planned Parenthood years ago when, after bringing four children into the world, her contraception failed.
“I’m pregnant but I’m not trapped. All I had to do was call the clinic and make an appointment,” she wrote. Rather than fearing bombs or “running the gantlet between pickets shouting at me that I’m a murderer,” she says the path was smooth, thanks in part to an abortion counselor who didn’t show her pictures of her unborn child’s development.
Heath described a hassle-free abortion procedure, including kind abortion workers who “tuck [her] up under a blanket” afterwards. She was so grateful, she says, that she donated several hundred dollars to Planned Parenthood despite her insurance paying for the abortion.
But the writer recalls one brief post-abortive memory linking her story to that of many mothers who, she concedes, didn’t have such an easy ride:
Two years later, I’m driving upstate by myself. I look down and think that if I hadn’t had the abortion, there would be a baby seat next to me with a small child in it, resting comfortably, knowing it would always be safe because I was in charge. It might be a girl — I would have liked to have a daughter in the family mix.
But I’m not grieving over the absence; I don’t have and never have had a single qualm about not bringing that child into the world. I know many women who have grieved greatly over the children they decided not to have, and I am thankful to have been spared that agonizing sadness of guilt and regret. I also know many women who, like me, have felt only gratitude and relief at having been able to take control over their lives safely and legally.
Heath concludes by celebrating that her living progeny, including five grandsons and three granddaughters, will have “the same legal right to choose that I had.”
There’s a name for people who don’t have guilt.
Sociopath.
“Two years later, I’m driving upstate by myself. I look down and think that if I hadn’t had the abortion, there would be a baby seat next to me with a small child in it, resting comfortably, knowing it would always be safe because I was in charge. It might be a girl — I would have liked to have a daughter in the family mix. “
No regrets? Then why is she thinking this? If she had no regrets she would go on with her life as if nothing happened.
My thoughts exactly. She does regret not having that miracle in her life. What a sad and empty existence she must live every day.
What is most shocking about her truly sick rationalizations, is that she already has children.
Could she possibly imagine her life without one of them?
Wait a minute....yes...she probably could. Its just a “legal right to a choice” after all.....
But you did bring that child into the world. And then you killed it.
How modern of her.
What a horrible and sick woman.
What do you say about a woman who says, “I killed my child, but I don’t regret it? MY life is good.”? I wonder what she’ll say to God?
>>>There’s a name for people who don’t have guilt.
Sociopath.>>>
That says it all. Thanks.
And I wonder if when she’s sick, or old, whether her grandchildren who will know no guilt about abortions, will decide to euthanize her.
She will have to give an accounting of herself one day.
She might come to have some regrets then.
Hi, my name is Susan - waves to the crowd.
Hi Susan! Crowd shouts back.
I murdered my baby and I have no regrets! Giddy Susan.
Applause from the crowd.
The reality:
Her murdered baby even now cries out to the Creator of the Universe for justice. That justice is just ahead folks. Even now, at the door.
“I don’t have and never have had a single qualm about not bringing that child into the world.”
Ah, so she’s acknowledging it was indeed a child, and not merely a mass of cells or what have you?
but says that she is thankful she has been spared the “agonizing sadness of guilt and regret”
I’m wondering how her aborted must feel never having the opportunity to experience life? It must be quite an experience making God’s decisions for Him.
I don't know what I'd do without my wonderful, caring daughter.
I don’t know. This sounds like a modern day good news story. Mother continuing career unfettered, her own flesh and blood dead infant sacrificed as a tribute to feminism, and obliterated guilt. If all career paths had such happy endings, psychiatrists would all be out of work! Bob
No regrets? Then why is she thinking this? If she had no regrets she would go on with her life as if nothing happened.
My thoughts exactly. It seems to be on her mind quite a bit.
No mention at all of the father, or of her children and how they felt about her killing one of their siblings.
“Oh, I could have aborted *you*, too. You know, instead of my having to deal with the *hassle* of children.”
She had her abortion just five years after Roe v. Wade. I wonder which of her children, if any, were born after Roe v. Wade, given some buffer time for PP to set up a “convenient” clinic in her area?
Maybe if she had her druthers, she would have aborted all her children.
MURDERER!!!! Yes you are!!!
"Don't regret it at all."
"If I regretted it. I'd feel bad."
"But I don't feel bad, so I don't regret it. Not one bit."
"No, really. Someone else might regret it, but not me. I don't regret it."
"Not a bit."
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