"I Had an Abortion" [Mega-Barf]

Hartford Advocate ^ | 1/22/04 | Lorraine Gengo

[The Westerner]

"By law" meaning if you all have your way and abortion is once again made illegal in the United States.

[madprof98]

I was trying to think of something cute to say, but there's nothing funny about what you are saying. You're an apologist for women like those in the article, and that makes you even more disgusting than they are. Enjoy your life now. Maybe it'll make eternity seem shorter.

[Mr Rogers]

I'm sorry that her mother had to give up "a very intelligent life" to raise this immoral selfish bitch.

I stopped reading at this point. She makes raising 3 children sound like a demeaning waste of human life. I hope her mother's other 2 children grew up to be more caring about others. I did read long enough to see this woman never had any kids - didn't want to waste her life on children.

[cupcakes]

Horrifying! Women's History Month? As a woman, I want no part of these women and their history. There are women who make this choice, I do not agree with it, but they do. It takes it to the level of a sickness though when a woman is not only flaunting the fact that she did not adequately protect her uterus from a pregnancy and child she did not want, but that she would be so cavelier about having to destroy a life for her own irresponsibility. If someone gets an abortion it is with a heavy heart, reverence, and disappointment and certainly not something to flaunt as normal and ok. There should be shame, if not for the fact they are killing an infant which is bad enough, but that they didn't do enough to protect themselves from an outcome they did not want.
What is outrageously sick is I believe some of these misfits might even get pregnant on purpose to be able to abort a living human being so they can say they did it too sister!

[cupcakes]

What is sad is that mom probably had a big hand in that attitude. Wonder how often the kids had to watch mother lament over how she was missing out to raise her awful children? *If* this was the case, that mother has much to be ashamed about and her fruit is being shown through her daughter.

[cupcakes]

I don't know anyone in my family who got an abortion, but it could have happened. My neighbor's aunt had six abortions, and that would have been before it was legal. Hard to fathom.

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As despicable as abortion is at any point in history, the primary difference between having had one forty years ago illegally and today is that women 40 years ago did not have the kind of knowledge of their reproductive systems, access to effective birth control, or even ability to voice a no to sexual advances of a husband or boyfriend without fear of repurcussions. These things are only a problem for the woman who allow them to be a problem for her now. The "necessity" for abortion has long passed. That is the dirty little secret the pro-aborts won't tell you.

[Aliska]

women 40 years ago did not have the kind of knowledge of their reproductive systems,

With all our present knowledge and a myriad choices for birth control, it seems like women have even less control than they did 40 years ago. Most girls made it through high school without getting pregnant and often with no birth control.

It seems to me that the more we know and the more choices we have, the more of a mess we make of things.

When I was growing up, most girls dreamed of getting married and having families like their mothers did. It was a status symbol not to have to work, and the ones who did go to work were in the minority and I don't know if they really wanted those careers or to escape from a bad marriage. Some women were driven into the work force for economic reasons. I don't know what they dream about today, but whatever it is, it is based on a very distorted world view. I blame society for most of what has happened.

I don't remember women being unhappy to be wives and mothers when I was growing up. Their families were their whole lives. They didn't demand all the expensive things people think they have to have today. They did have nice things though. They just didn't change the carpeting and redecorate the house every five years. It's good for the economy to have women with money and an insatiable appetite for more and more.

[Hillarys nightmare]

I didn't bother to read this story, because I become enraged at any woman who gets "prone", winds up pregnant, and then kills the child for the sake of her "convenience", and then concocts a reason to justify HER killing of an unborn child?!

As for all the sob stories of justification,: go see if Oprah is interested! For every one of these over the top, sad sack, "I had to do it for the better interest of myself" stories, there are perhaps a thousand stories of guilt ridden women who realize that what they did was wrong and admit it in true sorrow!
But they seldom ever get invited on the TV circuit, because their story is not supportive of the Pro-Abortion gang.
These self absorbed women don't deserve a soap box to stand on.

[MHGinTN]

"... guilt ridden women who realize that what they did was wrong and admit it in true sorrow!" ... And once the child has been exterminated, that action is irreversible. That child who was alive is no more on this Earth ... and the world is not a better place for that slaughter.

[netmilsmom]

I am credulous that you, as a thinking adult would agree the the best solution is an abortion.
You are self centered and you proudly display it. A thinking woman? A thinking woman knows that it costs big bucks to have an abortion and nothing to keep her legs closed. It prevents her 100% from getting any sexually transmitted diseases. And because you cannot be in anyone's head, you are advocating a mind altering decision. Why do you think women are upset after a miscarriage? Our bodies were designed that if a pregnancy is terminated, our hormones go and we get depressed. (Office Manager/Medical Assistant, thank you).

You must be a man and will never understand. This quote, "And I think it's just as irresponsible to give birth and have the child adopted for conveniences sake" proves it. Perhaps a woman with no compassion for other humans?
Maybe some personal responsibility, i.e. birth control or abstinence, is a better solution.

[netmilsmom]

Oh and by the way,
"Me, me, me, me, me, me,"

I'm sure you will understand this even if you don't understand the post before.

[Cronos]

"Abortion is certainly an important way of freeing the world of an unwanted human being," she added. "To continue to give birth under such bad circumstances is a sin in itself. No one should be born that way, without the love and desire of their parents." wonder if she ever heard of adoption of even more important -- of self-control

[The Westerner]

Well, I appreciate the fact that you withheld the vitriol that I usually get, although being told it's all "me, me, me,..." is a good bit of name-calling. At any rate, don't be credulous. I really do think this way. I detect at the root of your argument a problem with sex as such. Why are you angry that a woman can't keep her legs crossed? First that implies that there is something wrong with sex. Second that implies that in all cases, an unwanted pregnancy is the result of promiscuity.

What I'm really trying to understand about pro-lifers like you who are so emotionally invested in another person's life, is why? There must be at least 5 extremely critical to the future of this Republic issues that deserve such emotion and scrutiny. Why do pro-lifers get so vitriolic when they don't know the people? It's like you imagine the fetus to be a person with a rational, conscious mind aware of its own destruction. I know the argument is that these are "living" humans, yes, so is a every other species' unborn fetus, eggs, etc. Why not the exact same sensitivity over killing nests of wasps?

[lonerepubinma]

US population is 291 million, half of them women = 145 million women in the USA.

Est. 40 million legal abortions since Roe V Wade, and apparently multiple serial killers out there.
I love the way the left just throws so called facts out there and thinking people will not question them.

[KantianBurke]

Alice divorced her first husband in 1932. She remarried my great-uncle, John Thorpe, some years later. They never had children.

You've got 3 guesses as to why and the first two don't count.

[JoJo Gunn]

Well said.

[netmilsmom]

Let me take this point by point...to begin with I apologize for the "me, me, me." crap. It was uncalled for and very childish.

>>I detect at the root of your argument a problem with sex as such. Why are you angry that a woman can't keep her legs crossed?<<
Women, who actually have no natural instinct to have sex, only to procreate, open themselves to many psychological problems using sex for recreation. Women's minds are wired to take on sex partners to make children and therefore we go for the best of our male counterparts. We expect something back and many times it doesn't happen. Men on the otherhand are wired to have sex with as many females as they can (in order to better the chances of passing on their genes). Women who allow this to happen, even encourage it, end up with STD's and unwanted pregnancies. No birth control is 100% effective and STD's can live on the scrotum which are not covered by a condom.


>>First that implies that there is something wrong with sex. Second that implies that in all cases, an unwanted pregnancy is the result of promiscuity.<<
Nothing is wrong with sex, it's great. But there are many things a couple can do to come to orgasm beside intercourse.
Not every pregnancy is the result of promiscuity but every natural pregnancy is the result of sex. As long as Abortion is used as birth control, why worry?

>>What I'm really trying to understand about pro-lifers like you who are so emotionally invested in another person's life, is why? There must be at least 5 extremely critical to the future of this Republic issues that deserve such emotion and scrutiny. Why do pro-lifers get so vitriolic when they don't know the people? <<
From someone who worked in a Psychiatrist's office and personally knew women who were emotionally devistated by their "Choice", it's because I feel for people. Society has made this all so easy without giving these poor women the full disclosure of what may happen after. I was "pro-choice" until I met a couple women and one man who showed me the aftermath. No man is an island, we need to care about each other. All the facts need to be told to a woman. Let them see the Ultrasound of that "fetus" and see how many woman still make the choice.


>>It's like you imagine the fetus to be a person with a rational, conscious mind aware of its own destruction.<<
The human brain is a wonderful thing, we only use 10% of it. Brain waves can be detected in the unborn at about forty to forty-three days after conception. You, nor anyone else can tell what is going on there.


>>I know the argument is that these are "living" humans, yes, so is a every other species' unborn fetus, eggs, etc.<<
A human zygote will not be anything but a human being. No matter how much a woman tries she will not give birth to anything else. Not a puppy, a chick or a kitten. It is human.

>>Why not the exact same sensitivity over killing nests of wasps?<<
Honestly, isn't that a silly question?

[MHGinTN]

In your ghoulish wisdom, you offered, "I really do think this way. ... It's like you imagine the fetus to be a person with a rational, conscious mind aware of its own destruction." No, and that is typical of you dehumanizing ghouls, you try to define what it is that pro-lifers are speaking out to protect, as if your definition (which is nothing but your arbitrary application of when the individual alive human being is of worth sufficient for you to grant it the right to life). What a piece of work you are, arbitrarily deciding that only thinking beings have worth such that they deserve the unalienable right to the life they are already living! [I sure hope you have nothing to do with caring for your elderly and infirm grandparents or parents, cause your beliefs are a killer!]

Then you go on to assert, "I know the argument is that these are "living" humans, yes, so is a every other species' unborn fetus, eggs, etc. Why not the exact same sensitivity over killing nests of wasps?" And with that piece of rhetorical shock spittle you expose your self as having no more value for unborn humans than for unborn goats. Not at all surprising that you are so dead of heart, but it is surprising that you would be so open about it! [Is Peter Singer your demigod hero?]

You must find FR uncomfortable, what with these ad hom attacks like I've throwing at you ... perhaps your fellow ghouls at the DU or Moveon.org would be more worshipful of your soulless crap, maybe you could even get the 'christians for Dean' to embrace you since they prove to have no discernment either.

[cicero's_son]

GREAT point.

[cupcakes]

Just because women continue to be irresponsible even with the myriad of choices available to them, it does not justify abortion.