Posted on 07/11/2018 8:34:11 PM PDT by Morgana
A Missouri professor readily admitted to having an abortion for selfish reasons in grad school.
In a column Thursday in the Riverfront Times, Julie Setele, Ph.D., a professor of sociology and criminology at Webster University in St. Louis, defended her abortion and the infamous U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade.
Setele expressed concern about the open Supreme Court seat and the possibility of Roe v. Wade being overturned. She said women will be “oppressed” if they cannot legally abort their unborn babies.
“It is vital that all people who can become pregnant have that choice,” she wrote. “It is imperative that we have the right to not be parents or to be parents, as we so choose, and that we have the right to raise our children if that’s the choice we make.”
Setele admitted to being selfish and irresponsible when she chose to abort her unborn child at age 24. A graduate student at the time, she said she just was not ready to be a parent.
“The pregnancy was unplanned and unwanted, and soon terminated,” she said.
A common admission in women’s abortion stories, Setele was irresponsible and did not use birth control:
Overwhelmed with teaching my first college course, I forgot to pick up my [birth control] prescription. When my boyfriend came to visit that weekend, after the pharmacy had closed, I told him we’d have to use condoms. He was displeased and said so. Fueled by youthful hubris and a gendered desire to please, I agreed to risk it. When I discovered I was pregnant, he played the romantic Good Guy™, insisting we could make it work, while I served up pragmatic realism. For me, the “choice” was clear. I did not want to be a parent, at least not any time soon and maybe not ever. Four years into a Ph.D program, I had more than enough on my plate. My boyfriend breathed a quiet sigh of relief.
She rejoiced that the state where she was living does not require informed consent (basic facts about the abortion, its risks and alternatives, and fetal development – what Setele called “lies”). Her public employer health care plan (meaning taxpayer-funded) covered 80 percent of the cost of the abortion, she said.
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After experiencing “five minutes of the most excruciating pain of my life,” her abortion was over and her unborn baby was dead – though Setele never mentioned her child in the piece.
Setele basically admitted her decision to have an abortion was a selfish one.
“Then I was free,” she wrote. “I was just me again. … My decision to terminate an unwanted pregnancy prioritized my self-determination. I chose myself, and I am proud every day of that choice.”
But she did not just choose to put herself first, she chose to have her unborn baby’s life destroyed so that she could live how she pleased. Her baby, even at the earliest stage of development, already was a living human being with his/her own unique DNA and, most likely, a beating heart.
Legalized abortion does not free women from oppression. Roe v. Wade oppresses unborn babies by allowing them to be destroyed for basically any reason their mothers’ choose up until birth.
I’m sorry but irresponsible behavior does not justify murder.
Then keep your knees together, wench!
She could have easily prevented this by having a friend, if she has one, duct tape her knees together.
And we’re it’s not for birth control.
“It is imperative that we have the right to not be parents or to be parents, as we so choose, and that we have the right to raise our children if that’s the choice we make.”
You have that right. Don’t spread your legs.
Unplanned? Oh, yes it was. Anytime you drop your panties, you know pregnancy could be a result. Evil creature.
My sister in law was/is a loser and a druggie who got pregnant.
We asked for the baby.
She gave it to us!
It’s one of those things that renews your faith in God.
With the exception of the permanent or long-term methods (sterilization, hormone implant, etc.) most contraceptives reduce the statistical risk that any one act of intercourse will result in pregnancy, but increase intercourse frequency, meaning decreased risk is countered by increased exposure.
In other words, with the rubbers, jams, jellies, foams, etc. the increased # of sexual encounters statistically negates the reduced risk of the act.
It's more infrequent, but women even get pregnant when they're on the Pill.
Strange that women (and men) don't think of how powerfully and intricately woman is designed to ovulate, or conceptualize 300 million spermotazoa swimming up the woman's inner waterways like salmon swarming upstream. It's actually hard to shut the entire system down. Life finds a way.
Bottom like: if you don't want a baby, don't do the baby-making thing.
I wouldn't say "incapable," but I'd say it's harder.
Abortion always produces "One dead, one wounded," although women will often say "I don't feel wounded, I only felt relief." But the wound is still there, and the ability to bond with your child later will be impaired.
(Multiple partners will make it harder to bond with a man, too. Notice the vast increase of women's callousness, cynicism, and bitterness against men, and vice versa.))
That's one reason why there are so many women who are relationship-impaired. With God's grace there can be healing, but it's going to be much harder to get it right.
Keep it zipped, horndog.
Contraception use and abortion rates rise in tandem and fall in tandem.
Historically, with the exception of the USSR, no nation has ever legalized abortion without a couple of decades preceding it by contraception.
Contraception makes it more, not less, likely that a baby will eventually be conceived and deliberately destroyed.
"She could have easily prevented this by duct taping her boyfriend's penis to bis abdomen."
It takes two.
Sent Julie Setele, @susanbactivist a photo of her child (warning graphic content)
http://i68.tinypic.com/2s0k29e.jpg
This woman and ALL who commit abortion should be in JAIL.
Fair enough!
When I discovered I was pregnant, he played the romantic Good Guy™, insisting we could make it work, while I served up pragmatic realism. For me, the “choice” was clear. I did not want to be a parent, at least not any time soon and maybe not ever. Four years into a Ph.D program, I had more than enough on my plate. My boyfriend breathed a quiet sigh of relief.
I seriously doubt that this vile wretched female has any authority to speak for him or ability to do so accurately. She murdered his child, and seeks only to rationalize her crime in her own mind.
She cared enough about her child to give up the baby, and you are the type of person that could welcome that child into your family. Yes, that does renew ones faith in God!
She turned 7 today!
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