That's a pretty hard story to write. I hope it provides some of the healing that you need....prepare yourself for remarks that may be made ignorantly. No one else knows your scars for that decision.
I think you should send it in - and "gregory" is the last person I'd consider in the big picture.
Best to you.
Well I must say I'm warmed by the response to this thread. You have no idea how many years I've belonged to this forum feeling like an utter hypocrite. And yet damn, I've got a story to tell and whoever commented that if more women were to tell their abortion story people would really think twice about it was right on.
Then I recall hearing that goofy woman's abortion story on Rush Limbaugh, don't know if any of you heard this...she couldn't get a morning after pill and she blamed the whole thing on Bush.
As for the mythical "gregory"...well my fear is, laughable though it might be, that he might actually be a Freeper!
I've described him as a staunch conservative although in that era, I dunno. He really did belong to the John Birch society, don't know if any of you heard of this. I am now 55 years old so many of you might be younger.
And I did detail that he was upset, AFTER the fact, so hey, it's possible the guy is a Freeper as in this day and age FreeRepublic is a hangout for self-confessed conservatives. He was a computer type of guy and even as I type this my heart beats wildly in my chest as my strong hunch is that he does visit this forum.
As for being pro-choice, hey, I suppose I'm pro-choice too. When I think of a 13 year old impregnated by her own father or a rape victim being forced to carry her rapist's child to term, well I have plenty of thoughts about this.
I don't pretend to have any easy answers. No one does. I only know I had an experience and while it's anecdotal, I've talked to plenty of women who have had abortions and NOT ONE was at all happy about it. It just irks me to no end that the NAGS just keep on going, and going and going, like that annoying rabbit.
IF MS. magazine really, and I mean REALLY, wanted to do women in this country a service, they'd collect true stories about abortion from women. A woman does not want to have an unborn baby ripped from her womb I don't care how blase she pretends to be. It's part of our natural instinct.
And I don't care if people call me a murderer, on this forum or elsewhere. I think I am a murderer so it's not like this is new to me.
So I told my story. So sue me. Go on and link to it, share it with everyone, I don't care. Who knows, maybe I'll start collecting my own little not-so-nice abortion stories to counteract the smug libbers who think they did such a good thing.
As to how I transformed from a liberal to a rather rabid conservative, as I like to consider myself, well age and maturity tends to change one's perspective. Of all the liberal causes I've chased during my life, I was a rageing woman's libber. Raging. Why I even dressed in green and went to D.C. to attend Reagan's inauguration. Why? Because Gloria Steinham told us to. We were told that women across the nation would show up wearing green to protest what was then perceived to be Reagan's male chauvinist stance on things.
I marched against the Vietnam war, I hated men because they were, well, men and wanted to keep females barefoot and pregnant and were all male chauvinists. I bet only you older folks remember that phrase, heh.
I burned the flag, smoked dope, made love and not war and voted proudly for George McGovern. Man, I was a freaking nut job.
I'm not proud of it. I am further incensed to learn in my middle years that I was also a victim of a lying media that distorted the Vietnam war, foamed at the mouth over Nixon, a basically nothing thing, and in general shaped public opinion the way they saw fit.
I will read your personal freepmails to me and hey, Gregory, if you're out there, why don't YOU tell the story?