Why Won’t Parents Talk About Helping Their Daughters Get Abortions?

Slate ^ | October 11, 2018 | Rachel Klein

[C19fan]

“Your daughter’s 14, huh?” asked the guy at the wedding reception. “I guess you’re heading for the Grandma Danger Zone.” I wasn’t offended exactly (it was a party, after all, and most of us were drunk and speaking freely), but I was a bit surprised by the casualness with which a relative stranger commented on my child’s theoretical sexual activity. Trying to move the conversation along, I chuckled politely and replied, “Well, if she did get pregnant now, I would help her get an abortion, so that won’t be an issue.” There was a long silence as this man and the other people in the conversation looked at me in shock. He’d made a lighthearted comment about my daughter’s potential teen pregnancy, and I’d responded in kind with a lighthearted comment about my daughter’s legal right to exercise her reproductive agency. Why did his comment garner laughs and knowing glances while mine elicited a full-on record scratch? Mercifully, someone changed the subject, and I was left with knowing that I, and not this man, had said something terribly wrong.

[RedMonqey]

Yeah, I’ve always found “Abortion “ jokes as a great way to break the ice at parties

/sarc

[Mrs. Don-o]

It's untrue and unjust for you to generalize this to "all women". "All women" don't have abortions, and "all women" don't advocate "abortion rights," or even believe that there IS such a thing as an abortion right.

Each woman who chooses abortion is inescapably responsible for her own evil choice,but there is more than one evil choice going on here.

One evil choice was made by the all-male group of SC judges who unconstitutionally fabricated this so-called right to abortion.

Another choice was made by the millions of men who have begotten offspring for sudden destruction, by having intercourse with women they had no intention at all of having children with. (Yeah, yeah, there are men who would have tried to save their child from abortion if they had even known of its existence; but you know as well as I do that men are statistically more likely to be "pro-choice" than women, and there's a reason for that.)

So quit your global gender generalizations

It's repugnant anti-female-only grandstanding.

[Redwood71]

Our society has locked itself into a battle of theories that is being thrust into our youth’s inexperienced lives. They are given such things as the right to use their reproductive system, which is manure as it is a privilege, not a right, and with that has surfaced the much smaller determination of the recognition of responsibility to themselves and their future family. Kids are bombarded with ways to “make it” in society, normally at the lowest level with their age and inexperience, so they buy into the idea they can be adults at early ages.

So is freedom to do what you want really freedom. Or is it just another predetermined effort to capture our kids into government dependency? And in way too many cases ruin their lives and that of their children.

The writer mentioned a 14 years old girl. Anyone with any thought capacity knows that a pregnant 14 year old girl has very little future and no tools to make it better. Problem is that by that time, they are down river without the paddle. All because they weren’t impressed by abstinence and weren’t taught about the future they could realistically have by respecting themselves. And all for the vote.

rwood

[blueplum]

grandma zone could imply that The Clueless One would soon be looking at her own daughter getting married. - seeing they were at a wedding/reception and all. It was worth a chuckle and a small-talk lead in to, does she dream of a big wedding like this or, what do you all think about an seaside wedding, forest wedding, your cousin skydived in, no way!, etc. Which would have kept the conversation going pleasantly for some time.

Clueless Rachel laid a big fat stinker by word-associating grandma zone with illegitimate pregnancy requiring an abortion. Trashing her own daughter. Not worth a chuckle. Introducing the topic of abortion - at a wedding - for goodness sakes - is pure social crassness. It's just not done. And it sure slammed a lid on any other 'happy wedding banter filled with laughter' talk at the table. Leaving, 'how bout them Dolphins?' to trail off into the sudden thickness of the air.

[EdnaMode]

Articles like this are just sad.

[This I Wonder32460]

“Supporting that point, recall the guy who didn’t want his daughter “... punished with a baby”.”

You mean not be punished with a baby, like his poor mother was punished with him?

[Trumpisourlastchance]

Why are so many Jewesses such rabid child killers? I ask that question as a Jewish man half of whose family was wiped out by the Nazis.

[alexander_busek]

“Your mother’s 84, huh?” asked the guy at the wedding reception. “I guess you’re heading for the Alzheimer Danger Zone.” I wasn’t offended exactly (it was a party, after all, and most of us were drunk and speaking freely), but I was a bit surprised by the casualness with which a relative stranger commented on my mother’s theoretical intellectual decline. Trying to move the conversation along, I chuckled politely and replied, “Well, if she did become demented, I would help her get a mercy killing, so that won’t be an issue.” There was a long silence as this man and the other people in the conversation looked at me in shock. He’d made a light-hearted comment about my mother’s potential mental decline, and I’d responded in kind with a light-hearted comment about my legal right to terminate her life. Why did his comment garner laughs and knowing glances while mine elicited a full-on record scratch? Mercifully, someone changed the subject, and I was left with knowing that I, and not this man, had said something terribly wrong.

Regards,

[Secret Agent Man]

The truth is the truth.

[alexander_busek]

I guess that’s cheaper more convenient than helping to raise your grandchild. Think of all the baby clothes and birthdays and schooling, and recitals and school plays you don’t have to deal with anymore. Grandchildren can be such a pain.

Regards,

[Secret Agent Man]

Never said “all” women. I am speaking in general terms. Which inherently makes room for exceptions.

And now we’re done.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Because the public schools take care of that.

[Psalm 144]

Life unworthy of life, eh, Rachel Klein?

[Psalm 144]

Life unworthy of life, eh, Rachel Klein?

[yldstrk]

These days everybody puts their daughters on birth control for acne. Do it.

[DuncanWaring]

The world would have been a better place without him.

[JimRed]

...my daughter’s legal right to exercise her reproductive agency.

She exercised "her reproductive agency" when she engaged in the behavior that results in reproduction. Now it is simply executing an innocent party for the behavior of two others (or one other, in the case of rape).

[JimRed]

Whom ever wrote this original post is totally without any Spiritual Foundation. and spreading such horror here on Free Republic is the work of a radical leftist socialist scum bag

WADR, this falls under the heading of "know thine enemy". If it was not posted here, what are the odds any of us would see it, an additional example of the evil that confronts us?

[Mrs. Don-o]

However, it's the women who have abortions who are the exceptions. Since 1975 - 1995 - 2015 the rate of women of reproductive ages who have abortions in the US has dropped from roughly 40% to 30% to 22%. If you look closer at the stats, you'll see that if you eliminated the outliers --- NY, CA, and DC ---from the charts, the percentage of aborters across the 30-year reproductive lifetime drops in states like mine to closer to 10%.

Your generalization turns out to be an exaggeration. One approved, and probably manufactured, but the abortion industry and ts enthusiasts.