Posted on 06/20/2013 7:52:31 PM PDT by DaveyB
New York, NY (CFAM) — From the stage at the recent Women Deliver conference, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s daughter Chelsea revealed that her much-admired maternal grandmother was the child of unwed teenage parents who “did not have access to services that are so crucial that Planned Parenthood helps provide.”
Chelsea’s grandmother was born of an unintended pregnancy. And new research shows that her family is not alone in treasuring a person who – if Planned Parenthood had been successful – would not have been born.
“Every child a wanted child” is the rallying cry of family planning organizations that promote abortion as a way to achieve that goal. The New York Times Magazine recently described a study of women who were turned away from abortion clinics because their pregnancies were too far along. Researchers found that in the vast majority of cases – 95% – the mothers bonded with their babies. A significant percentage later denied having ever sought an abortion, despite the fact they were included in the study on that basis.
In a different long-term study, Dr. Rebecca Callahan observed a similar change in attitude among mothers with unwanted pregnancies in rural Bangladesh. Although 42% of the women initially labeled their pregnancies as unwanted, over half of them changed their views retrospectively. Over 60% of women who originally stated their intention to have no more children classified subsequent births as wanted or, at worst, mistimed. Callahan presented her findings at the 2013 meeting of the Population Association of America.
Instead of focusing on the positive finding that women’s initial aversion or ambivalence about pregnancy does not mean the child will be unwanted, Callahan expressed concern that “the rationalization of births as wanted distorts the true level of unintended pregnancy.”
While neither study examined why the women’s preliminary attitudes toward their pregnancies were negative, both were dismissive of the mothers’ eventual change of heart. “It’s psychologically in our interest to tell a positive story and move forward,” Dr. Katie Watson told The New York Times Magazine. “[I]t’s wonderfully functional for women who have children to be glad they have them,”
The fact that many wanted children result from unwanted pregnancies calls into question the very reason for organizations like Planned Parenthood and the United Nations Population Fund, whose mission statement seeks “to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted.”
The Guttmacher Institute, founded by Planned Parenthood, publishes articles warning of the dire consequences for “unwanted” children – implying that they would have been better off never being born. Despite current research demonstrating that an unplanned pregnancy does not necessarily predict an unwanted child, these findings are rarely used to develop interventions to encourage expectant mothers to embrace their unplanned offspring or consider placing them for adoption.
Wish you hadn’t said that.
Does she have any idea what she’s saying?......
Oh, Chelsea, I truly wish she had!!
Tempting, Chelsea, but still not good enough reason for me to support Planned Parenthood.
A lot of people lament that she didn’t. Thanks DaveyB, additional:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3033754/posts
The dope Chelsea can’t figure it out that she never would have existed if her grandmother had access to Planned Parenthood.
please stop stalking me.
yeah chelsea, i lament that too.
the dumb doesn’t fall too far from the tree.
Grandfather paradox
The grandfather paradox is a proposed paradox of time travel first described by the science fiction writer René Barjavel in his 1943 book Le Voyageur Imprudent (Future Times Three). The paradox is described as following: the time traveller went back in time to the time when his grandfather had not married yet. At that time, the time traveller kills his grandfather, and therefore, the time traveller is never born when he was meant to be.
heck, her father was born of an unwed mother whose parents faked a marriage certificate with a dead man.
That scandal is well known to everyone in Arkansas...
Webb was a bastard? Who knew?!
She’s speaking of her MATERNAL great grand mother. Hillary’s grandmother who birthed Hillary’s mother who birthed Hillary who birthed Chelsea. Coulda stopped it all way back then.
Actually, in Arkansas it is known that the only reason Hillary got pregnant is that she kept her maiden name when her husband was governor and started pushing lots of stuff on the locals who resented it, so they voted him out.
Two years later, Voila, Bill and his wife, now Mrs. Clinton, went around campaigning as the nice American couple, complete with baby.
Since Bill was able to mate with the kitchen sink, one doubts Hillary would have to resort to an ugly man’s sperm to get pregnant.
But you gotta admit, Chelsea looks an awful lot more like Webb than she looks like Bill.
true, but if I were picking a sperm donor, I'd find a better looking guy to father my kid...
I mean, do you really wish your own grandmother hadn't been born?
That's tough. No grandma, no mom, or is it dad, she wishes hadn't been born, then, no Chelsea!!!
What would the world do without the Clintons, don't ask!!!
three words: hanging curve ball
Jeez. The stupid just emanates off that one, doesn’t it? And that was what...$500,000 worth of Stanford/Ivy League/Oxford education?
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