Posted on 07/17/2024 1:40:03 PM PDT by Morgana
Son, one day you’ll ask us what it was like when you came into this world and for years, we will lie. We will say it was joyful and wonderful and beautiful and all the other -fuls we can think of, because the truth won’t be easy to tell.
That the story began nearly two years before you were born, when your mom’s obstetrician confirmed she was pregnant. That appointment was two days before my 36th birthday, and one day before your grandpa, Pop Pop, was diagnosed with incurable cancer.
We will fib, skipping over the parts about joy, wonder and beauty being clouded by a fear I was too afraid to speak of — that Pop Pop wouldn’t live long enough to meet his grandchild.
We will wait until you are older to tell you how that fear was upstaged by another, when a doctor explained the terms “nuchal fluid,” “chromosomal abnormality” and the three different trisomies: Down’s, Edwards’ and Patau’s. These are chromosomal conditions that cause severe and sometimes fatal birth defects.
The doctor presented us with options — options I was scared to share with Pop Pop because he was raised Catholic in the ’60s, which made him pro-life by default.
We will tell you white lies until you are grown, because we can’t share your story without mentioning Kate Cox, Nancy Davis or the Dobbs decision. We will only share the good parts, and none of the bad, because we won’t know how to explain to a toddler the simple fact that you might not be here if we had lived somewhere else.
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We need this from the heaven perspective. Letter to son’s soul.
Hopefully the second son will read this and realize what sick, narcissistic monsters his parents are.
Save your lame murdering excuses for God
The word for these people are “ghoul”. These sickos are ghouls.
wow. this is just. unreal how…dark this is.
I praise God that…He is God. And that there is time for them to seek His mercy.
The morally superior Hollywood crowd is preaching from their pulpit again.
I was just thinking that. Jesus is the final judge. No one will be able to escape that.
The title of the article is misleading.
I guess if either the husband or the wife ever have a health problem, then the spouse can divorce or kill them?
I’m going to go ahead and not comment.
Kind of. But the content is sick & twisted either way.
I remember reading about the disgusting woman over 20 years ago,with healthy twins,who rationalized killing one, keeping one all so she could continue graduate school. That was economic empathy and liberation I suppose. It was a NYT article written like it could be from the lifestyle section. The son would be well over 20 years old. I would like to know his feeling and if the mother regrets.
Wow that’s good I’m keeping that one
So true just reeks of liberal white privilege, if only the depths of horror the writer is justifying or attempting to desensitize us to weren’t so catastrophic. Banality of evil.
That’s all well and ghoulish, but the title doesn’t make any sense, as they didn’t abort the second child, how can it be “his” abortion?
This is from a source believed reliable.
This kind of story is hard to use to convince people to become Right to Life people.
It essentially takes people to believe in a principle in spite of the great burdens and sorrows it will bring them.
In other words, people who believe in the Almighty and whose faith is strong enough to withstand stress like this.
One may not be able to 'convert' pro-choice persons to a pro-life point of view UNLESS he converts them to faith in God.
And that is a tough order, but not impossible.
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