Owning Up to Abortion

The NY Times OP-Ed ^ | Published: July 22, 2004 | BARBARA EHRENREICH

[ruddigore]

Okay... wow. Pretty bold there.

[eastsider]

But what makes it morally more congenial to kill a particular "defective" fetus than to kill whatever fetus happens to come along, on an equal opportunity basis?

Absolutely nothing.

[The Old Hoosier]

Got to hand it to her--she's an equal opportunity baby-killer.

[Busywhiskers]

Talk about rationalizing poor decision.

[ICX]

So in this nauseating piece of trash, Ehrenreich lambasts women who abort for defects such as deafness or dwarfism, yet refers to her choice to abort 2 healthy children based on her monetary situation at the time as 'easy.' Bullshit is to liberals as water is to fish.

[martin_fierro]

Honesty begins at home, so I should acknowledge that I had two abortions during my all-too-fertile years.

She neglects to mention whether Bill Clinton was the father.

[Mike Bates]

I was a dollar-a-word freelancer and my husband a warehouse worker, so it was all we could do to support the existing children at a grubby lower-middle-class level.

She didn't have the freedom not to get pregnant again?

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[RepoGirl]

I was, and remain, a lioness.

This is a pretty accurate statement. Lionesses sometimes eat their young, don't they? Hamsters do, but I guess to say, "I was, and remain, a hamster..." doesn't have the same ring to it.

[KJacob]

"You can call me a bad woman, but not a bad mother"

I can and will call you a bad mother. The message you are sending to the children you kept is "I could have aborted you too". I guess they could be thankful that she didn't, But they could go through life wondering about the siblings they never got to know.

[L98Fiero]

"Yeah, I killed two babies, so what? I was poor."

Just sick.

[wideawake]

You can call me a bad woman, but not a bad mother.

She's right.

There's no way you can call a woman who pays someone to murder two of her children a bad mother, can you?

And I am sure she is a lioness toward the other children that she allowed to be born - lionesses do eat their young, don't they?

[JLS]

No matter what one thinks of abortion, this woman is an a moral elitist.

[najida]

Personally,
I think she shouldn't be a mother at all.

[Fenris6]

"Yeah, I killed two babies, so what? I was poor."

Avarice spreads his wings in triumph.

[martin_fierro]

I was a dollar-a-word freelancer and my husband a warehouse worker, so it was all we could do to support the existing children at a grubby lower-middle-class level.

Latest LibLine: "We kill the children because it's for the children."

[I got the rope]

BTTT

[Juan Medén]

Abortion will be abolished and history will look back on the age of abortion as an age of barbarism. School children will read of it in history books and will crinkle up their noses in disgust much like we now regard infant exposure practiced by the Roman empire and slavery practiced by the colonial powers. Tapes of defenders of abortion and editorials like these will appear in special interactive formats so that children will take away the appropriate frightening lessons that such people did indeed exist and could return some day again. Then we will all work with more conviction and zeal to eradicate such opinions from our society.

[Boxsford]

lawn mowing break....Where to begin this is so pathetic:

The trouble is, not all of the women who are exercising their right to choose in these cases are willing to admit that that's what they are doing. Kate Hoffman, for example, who aborted a fetus with Down syndrome, was quoted in The Times on June 20 as saying: "I don't look at it as though I had an abortion, even though that is technically what it is. There's a difference. I wanted this baby."

Oh really? She wanted her baby and says her abortion is only "technical". She wants the kind of baby she wants--not the gift God has given her. What message does this send to people with down's? They aren't of value because they aren't "perfect"? What is the definition of perfect?
I have heard of women being told that their babies would have down's syndrome but chose to have their babies anyway---guess what? The babies didn't have down's.

[Jaysun]

The prejudice is widespread that a termination for medical reasons is somehow on a higher moral plane than a run-of-the-mill abortion.

Only a truly sick b*tch could make such a statement. Psycho.

[fooman]

Gee I wonder why dwarfs complian of this practice. Maybe they worried that society will start POST natal abortions....