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When One (baby) Is Enough (ultimate in cold selfishness)
nytimes ^ | July 18, 2004 | AMY RICHARDS as told to AMY BARRETT

Posted on 07/18/2004 11:39:14 AM PDT by dennisw

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To: Clemenza
This is the type of woman I meet on an everyday basis. Pretty much the major political issue for these women is "keep your rosaries off my ovaries, but please buy me a $600 pair of Manolo Blahniks."

I can't think of a more devastating indictment.

481 posted on 07/22/2004 5:21:50 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: Aquinasfan
If you're in the room, and the baby is about to be murdered, you act as you would if a man was threatening your child with a knife.

In your imagination, maybe. Witnesses to abortion have no legal right to physically stop them, that I know of. There is nothing this man could have done but use his power of persuasion. Beyond that, he was powerless.

482 posted on 07/22/2004 9:29:12 AM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (NO SIMS CITY ON PUBLIC LAND.)
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To: dennisw

darn, no email address.


483 posted on 07/23/2004 2:16:54 AM PDT by GeronL (Time for a Constitutional Amendment banning Government giving money away to anyone or anything...)
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To: CindyDawg
Did she ever decide who's fault it was?

She saw nothing to fault. Its just like choosing between Coke and Pepsi for her.

484 posted on 07/23/2004 2:18:01 AM PDT by GeronL (Time for a Constitutional Amendment banning Government giving money away to anyone or anything...)
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To: snowstorm12

The viability argument is flawed because it is based on a false premise.

A fetus is viable in the environment it was designed to be viable in at that particular stage of life, namely the womb, only by removing the fetus from its natural environment, does it cease to be viable. But that is true of every human being, and indeed all life. Put a born human being under water, and he is no longer viable, take a fish out of water, and it is not viable.

Viability is an matter of medical technology , not ethics. As our medical technology advances, the time of viability for a fetus taken out of the womb changes. The issue of when human life begins can not determined by the level of avilable technology, that would imply that a fetus that is considered a human life in modern day USA suddenly ceases to be one if the mother is suddenly dumped in the amazon jungle. What is truly not viable is a system of logic that can lead to such an absurd conclusion.


485 posted on 07/23/2004 2:55:47 AM PDT by Truthsearcher
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
Witnesses to abortion have no legal right to physically stop them

Who gives a shi- about bogus legalities when your child is about to be murdered in front of your very eyes?

A bad law is no law.

And I'd rather be judged by a bunch of liberals than have to answer to God for my inaction.

486 posted on 07/23/2004 5:15:08 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: Aquinasfan
Who gives a shi- about bogus legalities when your child is about to be murdered in front of your very eyes?

How far would you go? Would you kill the doctor?

487 posted on 07/23/2004 8:46:58 AM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (NO SIMS CITY ON PUBLIC LAND.)
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet

40 million dead babies later and counting.

I can see violence being used to stop this violence one day.

Infanticide is but one facet of the crucible.

My views are no "Talibanista Histrionics".....it's just realism. If we ever do take up arms here to defend against encroachment on spark issues like gun confiscation, I can see the fight against infanticide becoming literal quickly.


488 posted on 07/23/2004 8:54:27 AM PDT by wardaddy
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
No. I think the best strategy would have been to yell "Don't kill my babies!" or "Murderer!" loud enough so that everyone in the office could hear. That would probably traumatize the mother and the doctor, or at least get the doctor to put the murder on hold. It might also knock some sense into the staff and any other patient/victims.

It would probably end the couple's relationship. It might get the dad fined or jailed, but it might get the mother to think about what she's doing and save the babies. It might not. She could always go somewhere else to murder the babies. But it seems like the dad's best shot.

489 posted on 07/23/2004 10:49:59 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: dennisw

Amy Richards' story, "When One is Enough" (7/18/2004), about the "selective reduction" of her pregnancy with triplets, made my skin crawl. This couple didn't want to have to "start shopping only at Costco and buying big jars of mayonnaise," so they simply killed two of their three babies, to make their lives easier.

They knew exactly what they were doing. "Oh, my gosh, there are three heartbeats," she wrote. "I can't believe we're about to make two disappear." Then "a shot of potassium chloride to the hearts of" two of the three babies, administered by "the specialist" (Dr. Mengele?), and, presto change-o, the problem of triplets is solved.

This is narcissism carried to a murderous extreme: killing your own babies because they would be too much trouble to raise. To this mom, "it's all about me." More than 10% of the words in her article are "I," "me," and "my." Nothing in the world is more important to her than her own comfort and convenience, not even the lives of her own children.

Scripture says that the prince of this earth is Satan, but some Christians don't want to believe it. After reading this story, how can they not? If our society condones this, why are we shocked at middle class "prom moms" who drown their inconvenient newborns in toilets or toss them in dumpsters? Why are we shocked at anything at all?

-Dave


490 posted on 07/24/2004 4:50:23 AM PDT by ncdave4life
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To: ncdave4life

My email to the author:

Your life is dedicated to the advancement of women.
With that in mind, what gender were your aborted twins? What if they were girls? What about their advancement?


491 posted on 07/24/2004 5:28:04 AM PDT by Treeless Branch
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To: I-53
This is one of the most horrible things I've ever read. I'm with Mrs. Jennie Chancey here: "Prepare for what is surely one of the most chilling articles ever to have been printed. This essay, recently published in the New York Times, is one woman's story of her "reduction" procedure, done to kill two of the babies in her womb when she found out she was carrying triplets. As I read through this, I kept waiting for the punch line. Surely the mother would see the barbarity of what she was doing and change her mind. Surely in the end her boyfriend would stop her from stopping two little heartbeats. But the conclusion is so disturbing it will leave you in disbelief as it did me. Lest we forget: Abortion on demand is not about the "life of the mother." It is not about health. If you entertain a notion that the "right" to abortion is about saving lives or preserving health, I pray you abandon that notion after reading this essay. Abortion on demand is at its heart about self-centeredness. It is about taking another person's life so that your own will not be bothered. Can we not see the far-reaching consequences of such a decision? Does the woman in the essay not realize that her cold-blooded "reduction" teaches the next generation to view all human life as disposable? What will happen when this woman is elderly and "in the way?" If we create a culture that devalues human life simply because a new baby will mean "I'll have to start shopping only at Costco and buying big jars of mayonnaise," then we are asking for a society that will murder its elderly, its lame, its blind, and all the other "unfit" members when they become inconvenient. God deliver us from such a fate. May we learn to treasure and value the precious gift of human life, training the next generation to see that cold-blooded murder is never justified. May we stand in the gap and take the initiative to help those women who are in the midst of a "problem" pregnancy, offering to share the expenses, adopt the child, train the mother...whatever it takes to prevent the "reduction" of human life. ~ Mrs. Chancey " read at: http://www.ladiesagainstfeminism.com/artman/publish/ And here's what the murderer looks like: http://www.feminist.com/askamy/ Disgusting excuse for a human.
492 posted on 07/24/2004 6:26:09 PM PDT by deruchette
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To: blueminnesota

"Was her Manhattan apartment really so much more important than her children?"

Was her apartment worth her immortal soul? God calls sodomy an abomination. This is far worse than that. Not from rape. Not from incest. Not to save the life of the mother. Just to save an apartment and avoid buying large jars of mayonaise.

[I was reviewing a Rush tape and thought I'd look this up on the web. He was also sickened by this. It was something to hear. So I checked out Google and get pinged back to the FR. Lots of people talked about this on the web, but the FR's link was at the top.]

God bless you and everyone here for caring!


493 posted on 11/28/2004 10:15:08 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (Some glaciers are resisting Global Warming.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

2005 Bump. This article must never be forgotten. Amy Richards is the poster-child for the American left.


494 posted on 01/04/2005 11:51:16 AM PST by Antoninus (Santorum in '08)
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To: Antoninus

My wife and I found out on 12-21-04 we are having twins. We could not be happier. I could never even think about doing this.


495 posted on 01/04/2005 11:54:43 AM PST by TXBSAFH (Never underestimate the power of human stupidity--Robert Heinlein)
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To: bourbon

Yeah, but I believe the one lady actally had and kept her baby, even though she was unmarried. Big difference between her and this nasty piece of work, imo.


496 posted on 01/04/2005 12:09:04 PM PST by exnavychick (I'm no expert, but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night!)
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To: Siamese Princess

In the 19th century, doctors discovered that the baby moves and is alive even before it can be felt by the mother.
___________________________________________________________

I saw proof of that myself at my 11 WEEK ultrasound. S/he was doing a Jane Fonda workout in there.

Not alive...give me a break.


497 posted on 01/04/2005 12:32:25 PM PST by exnavychick (I'm no expert, but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night!)
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To: TXBSAFH

Congratulations!!


498 posted on 01/04/2005 12:37:39 PM PST by exnavychick (I'm no expert, but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night!)
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To: exnavychick

Thank you.


499 posted on 01/04/2005 12:38:27 PM PST by TXBSAFH (Never underestimate the power of human stupidity--Robert Heinlein)
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To: Antoninus

The key is to impeach judges. Simply waiting for the leftist creeps to retire is not enough.


500 posted on 01/05/2005 1:01:49 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (The Four Law Breakers: Senators Rockefeller, Durbin, Carl Levin, Ron Wyden)
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