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"Our Two Lives Include a Third?" (NY Times Journalist's Accidental Pregnancy)
New York Times ^ | July 15, 2007 | RONDA KAYSEN

Posted on 07/15/2007 6:26:07 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o

TWO weeks after my husband and I quit our jobs, gave up our Brooklyn apartment and moved to Mexico to travel and work as freelance reporters, I discovered I was pregnant. Among the subjects I hoped to write about in Mexico was its restrictive abortion laws. Now I was contemplating an abortion myself. Even though my period was 10 days late, it hadn’t occurred to me that I could be pregnant....

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Mexico
KEYWORDS: abortion; dilemma; freelance; freespirit; kaysen; liberals; nytimes; pregnancy; prolife; rondakaysen
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It's good.
1 posted on 07/15/2007 6:26:10 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
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To: don-o; cpforlife.org; Coleus; Mr. Silverback; cgk

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2 posted on 07/15/2007 6:27:24 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Good.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Yesterday the Catholic blogger Amy Welborn offered some really worthwhile reflections on this piece. She did not like it as well as you did. Here's what she said:
What is always, consistently and invariably missing from this kind of reflections is any kind of moral sensibility. There is no essential understanding of right or wrong expressed (although it's hard to believe it's not felt at some level) - it is all about what is right for us, right now, in our lives. The baby's life literally has no inherent value. There is no admitting of what "not having the baby" actually means in real life, in real time, in real actions.

This is the missing piece, this is the bridge that those committed have to cross - the rhetorical work that abortion advocates have done over the past four decades has worked and worked well. Undoing that work and doing our own is the task - of example, of teaching, of love.

And, even though some don't like to hear it - of law as well. The law speaks loudly, and right now we know exactly what it says. That matters.


3 posted on 07/15/2007 6:32:31 AM PDT by madprof98 ("moritur et ridet" - salvianus)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I have 4 kids—last one is 18 years old. I read the article. Why did my monitor screen get blurry?


4 posted on 07/15/2007 6:33:22 AM PDT by Clara Lou (Fred Thompson, '08-- imwithfred.com)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
I hope, thru this, she (and David her husband) learn how wonderful a gift from God their child is.

The Lord works changing hearts and minds about abortion. That kind of change often takes time. I know, in my case, it took Him 5 years.
5 posted on 07/15/2007 6:35:53 AM PDT by Talking_Mouse (O Lord, destroy Islam by converting the Muslims to Christianity.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

After reading the story I can say with confidence-this woman’s husband is a self-centered weasel.


6 posted on 07/15/2007 6:36:54 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (If there's lead in the air,there's hope.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Man....wait til the child reads this article. He/She will be glad it's alive, but the bond between parent and child will be eroded tremendously by their callous "just get rid of it" thinking.

These idiots went to Mexico with NO plan, NO job, just to experience those SMELLS and to climb pyramids? The cabs don't even have SEATBELTS!!!

7 posted on 07/15/2007 6:36:55 AM PDT by Suzy Quzy (Hillary in '08.....Her PHONINESS is GENUINE !!!!)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
She also thinks Mexico's healt care system is the greatest:

A Joyride Through Mexico's Healthcare System

So, it's probably a good thing she's pregnant in mexico where the healt care system is the best.

8 posted on 07/15/2007 6:38:15 AM PDT by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
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To: Talking_Mouse
I hope, thru this, she (and David her husband) learn how wonderful a gift from God their child is.

God??? These people don't believe in God.

9 posted on 07/15/2007 6:40:25 AM PDT by madprof98 ("moritur et ridet" - salvianus)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
I do not for the life of me understand how anyone could put material things and self gratification before that of Gods gift of a child.

It just seems to me to be so shallow and air headed to even think of murdering and unborn child to enhance a career.

10 posted on 07/15/2007 6:41:18 AM PDT by OKIEDOC (Kalifornia, a red state wannabe. I don't take Ex Lax I just read the New York Times.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Life doesn’t happen until it happens to a liberal.

Wait until she has an ultrasound and sees her child and hears its beating heart.


11 posted on 07/15/2007 6:41:31 AM PDT by theBuckwheat
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To: raybbr
I'm beginning to wonder how anyone would birth in America.

Retirees flock north to Canada for affordable prescription drugs. Why Americans aren't heading south to give birth is beyond me. It seems like a much better choice.

Forgot this part. Perhaps it's because the best care really is in the U.S. Why are mexican women virtually crawling across the border to have their babies here?

12 posted on 07/15/2007 6:42:16 AM PDT by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
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To: raybbr
There are good hospitals in Mexico city if you have money. But they aren’t thinking of the baby to well if they live there. The pollution is awful. Not a good place to take your first breath. They have the ability to live in a better environment and should be thinking of all the child's needs. I wish the child well.
13 posted on 07/15/2007 6:48:17 AM PDT by mefistofelerevised
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To: Farmer Dean
After reading the story I can say with confidence-this woman’s husband is a self-centered weasel.

I read the entire article, you are insulting weasels

This guy is a worm

14 posted on 07/15/2007 6:49:20 AM PDT by Popman (I removed my Bushbot brain chip after he didn't veto the McCain Feingold election anti freedom bill)
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To: Suzy Quzy
Not only do people not wear seat belts in Mexico, they smoke like chimneys!

But every aspect of the life of a liberal is about supporting the Overall Theme, even aspects they are not aware of. Right now the Overall Theme is to tear anything having to do with America down, which means we will move heaven and earth to agitate for some cause here, but that same issue is of no interest in some third world country.

What does this indicate? That the Real Issue was not seat belts or smoking, but just Against Anything American. Hate US healthcare, not because of any objective standard about health care, but because it must be better anywhere else, even in Cuba where the citizens get to share on bottle of generic aspirin.

15 posted on 07/15/2007 6:50:01 AM PDT by theBuckwheat
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To: raybbr
Why are mexican women virtually crawling across the border to have their babies here?

Stop trying to introduce logic to the discussion. As Glenn Beck so often says, you can't discuss things logically with a liberal because their justifications for their views are so twisted, if you actually draw them to the logical conclusions they don't meet up. The circle doesn't close. There's no coherence.

So, to a liberal the pregnant Mexican woman is only here because her husband dragged her across the border. He came because he was forced by "big farming" (Bush's buddies, all) to come to do work that "Americans won't do." See, doesn't that make more sense?

16 posted on 07/15/2007 6:50:25 AM PDT by craig_eddy
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To: Mrs. Don-o

TWO weeks after my husband and I quit our jobs, gave up our Brooklyn apartment and moved to Mexico to travel and work as freelance reporters, I discovered I was pregnant.

would the baby be an anchor baby???? free health care? free welfare? free schooling? in-state tuition for college???


17 posted on 07/15/2007 6:50:28 AM PDT by nyyankeefan
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To: mefistofelerevised
The pollution is awful. Not a good place to take your first breath.

Some years back the mayor of Mexico City was complaining about
the pollution and poor sanitation infrastructure of Mexico City.

IIRC, in so many words he said "If sh-t would glow, we wouldn't
even need street lights at night!"
18 posted on 07/15/2007 6:51:35 AM PDT by VOA
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To: madprof98
God??? These people don't believe in God.

This may be part of the way He brings them back to Him.

God is much more willing to forgive then we often give Him credit for, especially for people we don't agree with. "While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" means while these two people were contemplating killing their child, not believing in God, and having live together for many years before getting married, Jesus loved them enough to die for them.
19 posted on 07/15/2007 6:52:39 AM PDT by Talking_Mouse (O Lord, destroy Islam by converting the Muslims to Christianity.)
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To: raybbr
I'm beginning to wonder how anyone would birth in America. Retirees flock north to Canada for affordable prescription drugs. Why Americans aren't heading south to give birth is beyond me. It seems like a much better choice.

Maybe this idiot (I thought she was journalist) ought to go Here (page 46-47) and compare the infant mortality rate between mexico (23) and the U.S.(7) before she spews her idiocy anymore.

20 posted on 07/15/2007 6:52:40 AM PDT by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
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