Posted on 10/24/2006 10:02:53 PM PDT by Lorianne
"Sandy Hingston is a senior editor and parenting columnist at Philadelphia Magazine."
A parenting columnist??? One who is unashamed of killing her own unborn baby because she was "scared" of her telling her parents that she had sex in college? Simply disgusting.
You said it best.
Who else was going to speak up, to witness to her?
This line speaks volumes. It's a religious rite to the author.
Try explaining abortion to one.
"You mean, they KILL the baby?"
I was suddenly seeing the issue not from my comfy old political perspective, but from a different angle: that of a young, naive, kindhearted girl who wouldn't hurt a kitten, much less an unborn child.
Fetus.
She went from unborn child to fetus. Had to convince herself too of the lie she was telling her daughter. Pathetic and sad. :(
With enough incentive, people can convince themselves of almost anything.
Her story reminds me of stories of how racists turn their children into racists. The children grow up learning there is no difference between races, that we are all the same, but then the parents convince them otherwise, and then those kids go off and if they are persuasive they get a few more on their side, and we have the next generation of racist pigs.
In this case, it's abortion. People know killing babies is wrong, it's something we are born knowing, but parents can deceive their children.
I had a choice, and my life is better because I did
They argue it's for the baby, but it's not, it's to improve their own lives. I disagree that her life is better, but even if it is, who cares.
I bet men who kill their wives find their lives "better" with their wives gone, too. Burglars have better "lives" because they have money, as do embezzlers.
You think Skilling, before he was caught and is going to jail, didn't think his life was BETTER because he had millions of dollars from cheating people?
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The author of this piece is disgusting!
Holy cow. I'm speechless.
There are definitely blue collar areas around Philly. Upper Darby comes to mind, but there are others. I live in a suburb of Philly and have lived where it was definitely blue collar (Ardsley). I find this article pathetically and emphatically evil. I raised a daughter by myself and raised her to know that she had choices. That she could--and should--go to college. That getting pregnant was a choice. And that a baby has the right to be born--and the mother has the responsibility to see that he/she is.
me too!! it is one of the most chilling things i have ever read. the daughter had the intuitive sense to KNOW killing a baby is wrong and the MOTHER sells her on the BLESSING of abortion. i am dumbfounded.
I understand what you're saying, but it would be better if teens considered getting pregnant to be the aberration.
And mothers giving baby showers for their pregnant 15 year olds? WTF?
Yeah, it's tough to argue in favor of bloody dismembered dead babies against cute onesies and cooing over precious bundles at the football game.
Heck - her daughter in this story is ONLY 3 years younger than she was when she murdered her unborn child. That was almost thirty years ago.
Shame on the author. What a horrible thing to do and pass on to her lucky to be alive daughter.
The mother is evil. She is a liar and a murderer.
The mother killed one of her children physically ... then she killed the other one spiritually.
Reading this article, I had the impression she lived in Jersey.
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