Posted on 05/11/2008 11:48:32 AM PDT by wagglebee
Actress Ellen Burstyn (The Exorcist) writes in her recent autobio about her abortion (in her 20’s).
Much later she saw a picture of a baby at the same period of gestation as when she aborted.
She said she had no idea it looked like that, that she was aborting a real baby.
Her mother responded with “what did you think it looked like.”
Coutse evil Planned Parenhood won’t ever tell the truth—referring to the unborn baby as the “product of conception.”
What seemed like a good idea at the time (and her defense of it) can later become a haunting nightmare.
Nurse friend works with older patients——some talk about nothing but their abortions and babble on and on regretfully about the babies they would have had.
Their nightmares must be hideous.
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What a ridiculous line of reasoning: because something happens, it ought to happen. Because it ought to happen, we must “understand” it.
Lucy, never mind the critics, here is a well known person who agrees with you.
“To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing”.
Adolph Eichman
If all your friends are skanks ....
Me too.
She needs to hang around with a higher class of people.
Seriously.
What can one say? I hope she will find peace and forgiveness when she realizes the destruction of innocent life.
The title should be, “Why I killed two of my own babies.”
Or maybe there isn’t really any reason to write an article like this.
“Some hard-line anti-abortionists will tell you that there is no real difference between getting rid of an unwanted pregnancy at eight weeks and at 24.”
Which is really stupid, because it has been scientifically demonstrated beyond all question that at nine weeks the Blue Fairy comes and turns the clump of cells into a real baby with her magic wand.
Me too.
Lots of big ‘ol capital letters there, but I’m puzzled as to exactly what you plan to do regarding the abortion of male babies.
"I've been wanting to write you since meeting with you last December. I have been referred to Project Rachel via a friend...who is very much involved in the anti-abortion movement and serves it so well.
The purpose of this note is to say "Thank you." I'm not sure why it has been so difficult to articulate the profound effect the meeting had on me. Words seem inadequate in this instance to express my gratitude. I have struggled greatly with the aftermath of my abortion. My previous attempts to reconcile were unsuccessful. What was different this time was the absolute and complete acknowledgment of the baby destroyed. It was no longer just a "little bit of tissue" or a "blood clot" that ceased to exist. So much of the pain I've felt through the years has been for that unborn, discarded, and denied human being.
So when you said, "You can name your baby," something shifted for me. I will never forget those words because he then became a baby, at last retrieved from the garbage pail into which he was so brutally tossed. Thank you for acknowledging him, for helping me recover him, for restoring the dignity I denied him. I can now be a little easier with myself knowing he's been taken care of-that he's been lifted from the depths and placed so lovingly in God's care. I've named him Matthew Joseph. I hope you'll say a prayer for him.
I have one more "thank you"-thanks for representing Jesus Christ so well with me".
***
"I've just attended the healing service, "At Peace with the Unborn," held at (our) church. The feeling of peace in my heart right now is beyond belief. The grief and burden that has been with me for too many years is lifted. It was a totally beautiful and purposeful service!
I pray that this service reaches all women who share its need. Thank you for bringing this service to us. Sincerely, A Catholic who has come home."
Healing Wounds: The Rachel Groups
Cardinal John J. O'Connor
Archbishop of New York
Member of the Pontifical Council
for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers
“I do agree with one part though. There are a lot of women that are grieving and hurting silently. They need support. Not the “its ok. Everyone does it support , but that God forgives and heals support”.”
Well said Cindy Dawg..
Has anyone contacted the Telegraph to ask when the article about the women who chose to let their babies live will be running?
“Virtually every woman I know of my generation has had an abortion”
Stopped right there. Unbelievably sick.
I’ve had 2 miscarriages.. I have ultrasound pictures of both of them... one of them was named... I think of both of them as my children in heaven because they ARE.. your womb wasn’t empty before you miscarried, it had a child in it. I’m sorry you don’t get it.
Basically, a year after she had me, she got pregnant again. She was already so "tired and stressed and overwhelmed" that she couldn't handle another child, and so, in 1974, she had a "perfectly safe and legal" abortion.
I was horrified, and spent a lot of time in my teens feeling like I was such a difficult baby that it was my fault that she killed her baby.
It drove a permanent wedge between us.
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