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....
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Amen....these people are pathetic and there’s MILLIONS like them here.
It is time for both of them to grow up. I pray that the baby may help bring that about, but I am not optimistic.
re: the statistical data,
As a good scientist friend of mine says, “Nothing like some contrary
data to destroy your favorite theory”
Of course it won’t matter to a former NY Times reporters.
For them it will be “false, but true”.
Someday this kid is going to love his mother for saving his life, and hate his sperm donor for wanting so badly to be rid of him for lifestyle reasons.
So much for the orginal argument about abortion needing to be legal to save the life (style) of the mother.
(Interesting insights into the sperm donor’s liberal logic about abortion- better to have an abortion than ride around pregnant without a seat belt)
The father is a self-centered jerk.
One of the good things about Mexicans is that they LOVE babies, obviously. Perhaps the influx and growth of the Mexican American population (whether we fix the borders or not, this is going to happen), will bring a new appreciation overall towards babies and Life.
The reality is the baby comes to live with you not the other way around. Her last sentence is what awaits all parents, the one that I still am enjoying……….
I read a small part of the report. It’s the obvious. Thanks. Too early for me to read 58 pages right now. I need coffee.
I hope her and husband see the baby throwing them the finger.
The Lord is already at work with them. There they are in Mexico, surrounded by people with children, little babies everywhere. They might never have thot of keeping that child were they in NYC still. And once that child is born, they will never be the same. “Theoretical” hits Reality. Reality wins.
How does someone “accidentally” have intercourse?
Wow, talk about literally throwing the baby out with the bathwater! Amy Welborn must have one of the tinniest ears in the Western world!
The mother-to-be didn't put her moral sensibility into "religious speak" or the kind of right-and-wrong language that apparently will appease dogmatic Catholic demands. But the piece is literally pregnant with moral sensibility! What's more important, it was actually published in the NYT, where it has a very good chance of influencing a lot more liberal minds that have been brainwashed by the "pro-choice speak" of the writer's husband. It will save babies' lives!
The author of the piece clearly knows right from wrong on an unspoken but obvious level. And that perception will now reach many more like her, coming as it does from a "culturally acceptable" point of view. We will win this war one mind and one baby at a time, not by forming our usual "purist" circular firing squad.
I happen to be agnostic when it comes to divine influence. I'm not wishy-washy: I just don't have so much arrogance as to believe I can know the Great Mystery. Nor do I believe any other mere mortal can, not the Pope nor any other religious leader. What's much more important to me is living a moral and ethical life and espousing positive life-affirming values. That I try to do. If Amy Welborn doesn't like my position, or the author's, she can tend her own Holy water.
Wonder if her husband is the boyfriend she talks about in this article:
“I feel your pain: Learning to live with a Red Sox fan”
By Ronda Kaysen
“By the time my boyfriend told my mother, over brunch in a Downtown cafe, that missing the afternoon’s Red Sox game was akin to missing the birth of his first child, I already had a good hunch of what future lay ahead for me. Chances are it involves a TV in the delivery room.”
http://www.thevillager.com/villager_77/ifeelyourpain.html
Plenty of ranting and raving in your reaction, but nothing about what Amy actually said—that the one and only ethical standard the writer upholds, and the only guide she followed in reaching her decision to give birth, is “what is right for us, right now, in our lives.” That’s why the NYTimes printed the piece; it would also have printed it if she had decided on partial-birth abortion, or infanticide for that matter, as long as it felt to her like the thing to do at the moment.
As the late Steve Allen used to say, "You can't argue with that logic."
I dunno, CITIZENSHIP?
It wasn't the report, per se, I was interested in. It was the stats. The author is bragging about the great care babies get in mexico compared to the U.S. According to the report the neo-natal fatality rate is over 3X that of the U.S.
I realized something. She's being used and doesn't even know it. They must know she's a journalist. They give her access to all the best care knowing she'll write these glowing stories while the proletariat in mexico dies around her out of her sight.
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