Posted on 11/04/2021 11:48:37 AM PDT by Morgana
On October 30th, People ran a story as part of their ‘Women’s Choices, Women’s Voices’ “stories from abortion-seekers” campaign, featuring the example of a Texas woman named Mariah Armonta, a single mom of three living children, with her youngest being just nine months old. When she took a pregnancy test after missing her period in mid-October, the result confirmed that Armonta was expecting her fourth child. The 25-year-old, who had been back to work for just six months following her nine-month-old daughter’s birth, told People that her initial reaction was panic.
She scheduled an appointment at a Texas abortion business but scheduled a second appointment at an out-of-state abortion business in case her baby had a heartbeat. Her panic is what the Texas abortion business is now hoping will drive her to an abortion without taking the time to think it through. “My first thought is, I can’t have this baby. I can’t have another baby. I have three already and I do it by myself, and it’s hard,” she told People. “I don’t want to keep doing this by myself. And I barely started working again to support them. I just got it figured out, how to get everything done with three kids and work.”
Her story begs one important question that the People article fails to ask: ‘Where is the child’s father?’
Tragically, Armonta’s thoughts turned next to abortion as a solution for what she apparently believed to be solely her ‘problem.’ She described her mental state as she determined whether her child was under the gestational age limit to have an abortion following Texas’ September 1st enactment of the Heartbeat Act, which prohibits abortion once a preborn child’s heartbeat can be detected. “I was like, ‘Where am I going to go? What am I going to do?’ I was freaking out and crying a lot. I had been crying for days. I was just like, ‘Oh my god, I don’t know what I’m going to do.'” She felt “helpless” at the thought of not being able to abort in her hometown of Abilene. “I was like, ‘Oh my god, I’m not going to be able to do it in time.”
According to People, after confirming that her preborn child was under the six-week gestational age limit for abortions in Texas, Armonta drove three hours to an abortion facility in Austin for a chemical abortion. However, the Texas law isn’t based on a six-week timeline — instead, it states that the abortionist must check for a heartbeat before committing the abortion. The law states:
[…] a physician may not knowingly perform or induce an abortion on a pregnant woman unless the physician has determined, in accordance with this section, whether the woman’s unborn child has a detectable fetal heartbeat.
Armonta stressed that so far she has no regrets in her first few weeks after having an abortion, which is consistent with the relief many women report in the immediate aftermath of abortion before reality sets in months, years, even decades later. Armonta pointed the finger of blame at people who “are just so judgmental” and are “taking away the [abortion] services everywhere.” She lamented, “Women, especially single moms — we already have enough on our plate. Fathers don’t always stick around. It’s hard for people to catch [the pregnancy] in time.”
Two days later, she was back at work. She commented, “People were like, ‘You seem like you’re fine.’ People didn’t really know that I had an abortion, some people I just told that I miscarried. A lot of people are judgmental. But it’s my body, it’s my choice.”
Armonta’s devastating story of choosing abortion largely due to financial circumstances and lack of support illustrates just one aspect of the cascading fallout of the sexual revolution. The idea of no-strings-attached sex is at the heart of the sexual revolution. And that fallacious idea, that sex can be a purely recreational activity completely divorced from its procreative capacity, has had horrific consequences. Because men and women have been sold this lie, many people find themselves utterly unprepared when a child is conceived from a sexual encounter, leading to abortion as a quick fix. Meanwhile, the baby body count has risen to the tens of millions in the intervening decades since the sexual revolution and the legalization of abortion.
Sadly, women largely bear the brunt of unexpected pregnancies, as men are able to bow out of financial, familial, and other responsibilities because they didn’t ‘plan’ on becoming fathers. Inevitably, the lives of helpless, innocent children like Armonta’s preborn baby are sacrificed.
If under Texas law anyone who plays any part in causing the abortion to happen can be sued by any third party then can’t the father be sued since without him there would have been no abortion to begin with?
25 and on her 4th kid? Krazy glue her vagina shut!
My wife is retired, while I have been back working for 4 months. Great job, I have flexibility when needed to help. Grandson is 11, active in football and baseball, granddaughter is 17 months old.There’s always something going on.
Until people start using their brains and exert responsibility for themselves, these stories will continue to proliferate.
The quality of good fathers let alone good men is hard to come by. Most men now are porn addicts and narcissists.
i do. I know several actually that had enough with babies, but not sex. and of course would not get snipped.
Exactly.
Yes, both are guilty.
And if she chooses to live that lifestyle, she should use a contraceptive. Why bring kids into it?
insurance covers abortion sometimes, almost never with b/c.
That’s the sad truth.
She would do much better on her feet rather than on her back.
She should keep her legs closed if she doesn’t want to be a parent. At least that’s what men are always told.
Only females get the right to a normal sex life where they can bail on the responsibilities of being a parent at will.
Men cannot, and they are on the hook financially with no escape hatch.
True equality would remove the female escape hatch as well.
“Sadly, women largely bear the brunt of unexpected pregnancies, as men are able to bow out of financial, familial, and other responsibilities because they didn’t ‘plan’ on becoming fathers.”
Total lie. Men can “bow out” and live life basically as a fugitive. Paychecks can be garnished, licenses from driving to professional get revoked, etc. The laziest woman on earth can walk into a court and easily get such a judgement. A male is just as much on the hook, except he cannot simply decide to kill the baby the way women can. Only women get a legalized yes or no vote on being a parent if they are not abstinent.
Men are laughingly told keep it zipped if you don’t want to be a parent. Nobody tells women that. It is assumed they have a right to a sex life without baby risk.
Doesn’t sound too “equal” to me.
No, because he is not a voting member in the decision and has zero power. She can do it no matter how much he objects.
So the Uber driver who takes her to the abortion clinic is "a voting member in the decision" and can be sued but the guy who got her pregnant isn't and can't? That doesn't make much sense.
How did she contract pregnancy?...a bad shrimp chimichanga?...didn’t wash her hands after touching a door nob?...sat to close to the cat lady on the bus? I hope I don’t catch it!
In some communities, fatherhood does not exist except in theory.
Dad’s an anal sphincter so I’m going to brutally murder my child.
The chilling coldness of some women towards fathers could literally freeze the fires of Hell.
Mothers are the ones murdering innocent little preborn babies between conception and birth.
Mothers are the only ones legally authorized to murder innocent little preborn babies between conception and birth.
If the mothers don’t sign, the babies live.
If the mothers do sign, the babies die.
Yet, instead of empathizing with the fathers whose baby daughters and baby sons were willfully murdered by the mothers of the babies, some women will refuse to empathize and instead make the ugliest false claim possible, that the fathers of the babies “must have” wanted their daughters and sons to be murdered by the mothers of the babies, and thus do not merit empathy.
yup
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