"Our Two Lives Include a Third?" (NY Times Journalist's Accidental Pregnancy)

New York Times ^ | July 15, 2007 | RONDA KAYSEN

[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....

[hocndoc]

The piece is published in the “Fashion and Style” section, under “modern love.” And for a while there, I didn’t think she actually had a “choice,” if her husband disagreed.
Here’s my blog: http://www.lifeethics.org/www.lifeethics.org/2007/07/fashion-style-modern-love-and-abortion.html

[montag813]

Ronda Kaysen, 23, a 1999 graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz, held a blue and white banner reading “Keep Abortion Legal.” Kaysen, now a writer in New York City, had boarded a bus chartered by the National Organization for Women at 3:45 yesterday morning for the inaugural. “I felt I had to make my voice heard,” she said, describing Bush as an appointed president. “This is the most upset I’ve ever been. I’ve lost sleep over this.”

The Lord works in mysterious and ironic ways.

[Moonman62]

She could have gone to Mexico City for the abortion where it’s legal. The elites in Mexico hate their lower class people. That’s why they want to dump them in the US, and why they made birth control a constitutional right.

[Moonman62]

That's one sick but appropriate graphic with the article. At least she decided not to have the abortion.

[Hot Tabasco]

I can say with confidence-this woman’s husband is a self-centered weasel

Well, having never been married myself and certainly with no children, I have to agree with you......I was hoping that she ended up dumping the self absorbed kid in Mexico City to let him get on with his hippie-trek alone.

[codercpc]

Excellent point. I think that we at FreeRepublic tend to forget that a whole bunch of us could have been in this situation ourselves, at less "moral" points in our lives, and also contemplated these scenarios.

When I become judgmental , I sometimes have to remember "there but for the grace of God, go I".

We just have to Thank God that she made the right decision, and hope that the life of her child will make her look back at this time in her life with shame.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Yeah, I thought about that image, too: a blindfolded woman ready to smash an incoming baby with a baseball bat.

There may be more prolife people lurking around the New York Times than we suppose.

[Mrs. Don-o]

One good thing is, she’ll be able to refute the abortion advocates’ assumption that an unexpected pregnancy (and childbirth) will knock a woman’s life and career off the tracks forever.

Funny thing, the feminists think a woman can handle the Presidency, but can’t handle a pregnancy.

[Farmer Dean]

This woman’s life is a train wreck,a lot of the mess has been caused by the men she chooses and her cavalier attitude towards sex.Knowing what in life has true value is the key.

[hocndoc]

That’s a pinata in the picture.

[Moonman62]

Thanks, we know that. The symbolism is the same.

[hocndoc]

Yep, just “bat” that whole baby idea - and the baby - around for a couple of weeks. Candy or a child? More immaturity.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Now that I squint my old eyes: yeah, there’s a faint suggestion of a string attached. But the same message: smash the baby, grab the goodies for yourself.

I think the cartoonist has made his/her own judgment.

[mefistofelerevised]

She’s a liberal journalist. The truth doesn’t matter.

[madprof98]

The article is accompanied by the graphic, above, of a blind-folded woman and a pinata - in the shape of a baby.

My God!

[reg45]

For those who depend on the public system, care is often inadequate, especially in poor, rural areas. However, for Mexicans with the means to afford private doctors and private hospitals, the options are staggering.

This is one of the best arguments I've seen AGAINST the public system proposed by the Democrats.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Re: “accidental pregnancy.”

This has to do with the contraceptor’s profound alienation from natural sex. Contraceptive-using women typically are amazingly unaware of and insensitive to their own bodily natures. When pregnancy does occur (as it almost always will, sometime in the contraceptive career) it’s seen as an outrageous imposition. You get this eye-rolling, foot-stomping, angry “How could this happen!!?”

Reason #8748549834 why contraceptives are physically, emotionally, spiritually and sexually absurd.

[starlifter]

I agree. My bet is they divorce relatively quickly. And she is bending over backwards for the bum.

[hinckley buzzard]

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.

High time. This woman is 29, idiot boy is probably the same or older, and they sound like 17 year-old videogame addicts who face having to live without their Xbox. "NY Times journalist" indeed.

[raybbr]

This is one of the best arguments I've seen AGAINST the public system proposed by the Democrats.

Good point. Again, the ignorance (probably on purpose) of this woman is astounding.