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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.
I have 4 kids—last one is 18 years old. I read the article. Why did my monitor screen get blurry?
After reading the story I can say with confidence-this woman’s husband is a self-centered weasel.
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!!!
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.
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.
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???
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.
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.
How does someone “accidentally” have intercourse?
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
More about Ronda:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/01/21/MN163392.DTL
(2001) Across the street from the National Archives, 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.”
Kaysen also complained that the demonstrations seemed poorly organized and unfocused.
http://www.breakupnews.com/photo.asp?blog_id=60
(7/2004)
Ronda Kaysen, 27, would like to reiterate that she and Daryl Rosado, 42, remain broken up. The couple first broke up on Valentine’s Day 2002, after Mr. Rosado cancelled the evening’s activities. The two had been dating for six weeks. “He was a total loser,” said Kaysen of her former flame. “He flaked on me like three times in a month.” Rosado was Kaysen’s first relationship after her tumultuous break up with Martin Brower, a design student at Pratt University, eight months earlier. Why anyone would date a male design student remains unclear.
Rosado marked the beginning of a string of short-lived affairs for Kaysen. “It was all about the sex, anyway,” said Kaysen, a Brooklyn-based writer. “And if he wasn’t going to put out, what was the point?”
http://dir.salon.com/story/mwt/letters/2005/06/23/rude_comments/index.html?pn=2
(2005) Lynn Harris must have been that fly buzzing around my kitchen this weekend when my mother came to visit. “You should have a baby soon. Women are so unlucky, nature isn’t kind. Look what happened to your sister — she had to have a cesarean!” I guess that’s what happens to women who have babies over 30 — they get cut open. Funny thing is, I’m not even married! And I’m only 27. Ms. Harris is right; the inappropriate, invasive questions are outrageous. If people would spend more time worrying about their own lives and less time worrying about mine, we’d all be a little better off.
— Ronda Kaysen
So Ronda, “If people would spend more time worrying about their own lives and less time worrying about mine, we’d all be a little better off.”, why did you write the NYT article???
Sure am glad they got over their “me-ism” enough to allow their baby to live! Amazing how short sighted some people can be. They think a baby means they can NEVER ever do what they want to do again.
Second, regarding her quote, "No, no, no,” I said. “This isn’t good. We can’t have this baby.”...doesn't she mean "we can't have this inanimate mass of tissue"?