A Lament for the Forgotten Mothers

The American Spectator ^ | May 7, 2022 | Melissa Mackenzie

[T Ruth]

Many women find out they were mothers too late. I don’t mean an accidental pregnancy. I mean, they learn that they were mothers after they aborted the baby they were told was a clump of cells. This discovery causes great distress for all but the most amoral and sociopathic. Women are shocked to learn that they cannot forget the decision they made in haste, or by coercion, or by brainwashing.

The body doesn’t forget. The subconscious remembers everything.

Even the humblest woman makes an indelible mark on the future by becoming a mother. She influences a future generation, one child at a time.

Too little is written for these women. Feminists believe that no pregnant people like this exist. They play pretend. Watching the wildly theatrical pro-abortion crowd one gets the impression that they’re protesting too much. Underneath, there is pain they dare not speak, for to do so would be to tell themselves the truth: the dehumanized zygote, then embryo, then fetus is a baby and she killed it and in so doing, killed part of herself.

Some women breeze along and come to the realization when they decide to get pregnant with a baby they want. Then, the horror sets in. It’s even worse if the woman can’t get pregnant or suffers with infertility. It must be God’s punishment, she says to herself. How can God forgive me for murder?

God forgives at repentance. A woman, though, lives with her choice forever and may never forgive herself for what she’s done.

These women are mothers. They are forgotten and their pain denied.

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Girls grow up hearing about careers and how difficult motherhood is. Careers are great, but nothing compares to motherhood. ***

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[stanne]

“Mexican food, anything spicy and hot, was not just wished for but needed. Yes”

We were vegetarian at the time I was about 3 months. We were in Germany. Hub was a pilot and his B/P was way up. We fixed it but I had to have that pork at the brauhaus in Reichenbach-Stiegen. I would not let go of his arm until we pulled into the parking lot. Kid is still a carnivore. A meat connoisseur.

Rachel’s Vinyard is there for those who seek forgiveness. Jesus heals.

[T Ruth]

Thanks for the tip: Rachel's Vineyard

[Arcadian Empire]

Portraying mothers who murder their daughters and sons as invincibly ignorant is inaccurate and counterproductive.

[LibsRJerks]

As a nurse, I’ve seen a lot of older women in their 60’s, 70’s at the hospital at or near the end who had no one to visit them. Not a husband, not a child, no one. I had to wonder if they gave up their children to abortion of their own free will and then found themselves alone later in life.

I can’t figure out why women don’t think of this. Perhaps this will be the only child they’ll ever bear — the only child who would have stayed nearby, given them a grandchild or two. A family. All the trouble of trying to raise a child is nothing compared to the emptiness at the end of life without someone to care for. How can having that child and raising it ever be a mistake?

We are a great country where women can have children young, get them to school age, and then take all the opportunities provided to them to return for their education and move back into the world world. Or, continue working while they are pregnant, and are given ample maternity leave to get things in order. I just don’t see the enormous hassle anymore.

There’s also no stigma, it seems, to be a single mother, or to marry the father later after having the child. Hell, all we see are brides and the Dads walking down the aisle holding the kids nowadays. Most young people nowadays buy the house first, move in, then marry later anyway. It’s all goofy, but what is the problem with at least allowing the child to live?