Posted on 06/16/2009 12:31:57 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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For my first trip out and about since learning I was pregnant, I went to meet with the director of an adoption agency. He was so supportive and sweet that I walked away choked up but not in tears — it was the first day I didn’t cry. Even though the adoption agency can pay my medical costs and set me up with adoptive parents for maternity shopping, grocery shopping, birthing classes and all kinds of programs, it didn’t feel like enough. I told the director how scared and lonely I’ve been and he just said, “I know. I can tell. We’ll take this one step at a time.” So many of the comments urged me to consider adoption but I already feel so attached to the little zygote inside of me (my friend named it Ziggy) that I don’t think I could carry a baby to term just to give it away. The mere thought of handing my child to someone else, as altruistic as it is, breaks me.
That shifted my thoughts to keeping the baby. My parents have also been reading through the comments and they’ve gained a new insight too. Sure, a baby would be wonderful to have at the Thanksgiving table, but what about the rest of the year? Even though they would love a grandchild, I think they’re starting to understand how hard this will be for me.
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If I’m not there to turn in a policy paper or a memo, someone else’s child might not get their mosquito net or child support check. What I do matters, not just in my own small world, but in the big picture.
(Excerpt) Read more at parenting.blogs.nytimes.com ...
I wish she had not aborted and instead given her baby up for adoption.
Oh, honey, wait until the unavoidable truth hits you later - and it will hit you - that you are and always will be the mother of a dead baby.
That will bring a pain upon you that is indescribable and never ending.
I wonder how she’s going to feel about killing her baby after a few years when she’s saddled with $100,000 of student loans to pay on a $30,000 a year job.
D**n, what a ghoul.
A few days ago, when I was talking to my mom on the phone, I finally broke down. I said, “It’s just like how everyone said high school would be awesome and it was awful and then college would be great and I hated it and now everyone is telling me that being a mom will suck at first but then it will be wonderful. What if it’s not? I want to do something I enjoy for a change, something for me!” As selfish and childish as it was, it was the truth. I was tired of working so hard to make everything come together under pressure. I finally had my chance, after 3 miserable years at a college my parents adored, to do something all about me and my dreams. I know the world has rules and (this program’s) rules are especially tough, but those were the rules I wanted to play by now. I guess those rules don’t allow for a baby at 22.This says it all about the entitlement generation, everything is for "ME!" How incredibly selfish; the only reason she has the "right" to kill her child is because her parents weren't as selfish as she.
Agreed. She’s too selfish to give her child to another family who will love and care for the child - so she decided to kill it instead.
What depravity exists in the world.
What a sick narcissistic witch.
The entire focus of this essay was ‘I’ and ‘me’ and ‘my’. Look how often those words show up. Nothing much about ‘baby’ or ‘he’ or ‘she’ unless it was how the baby would inconvenience the mom. Selfish!
This writer (if this is a for real story) is certainly not ready to be a mom. You have to give to be one! Too bad she is so self focused that she couldn’t give her child to someone who would put themselves aside and love it as their own.
You could tell how selfish the little brat is just in the first few paragraphs.
I read this column and all the posts in response. I strongly suspect the original column is fake, that whichever “journalist” interviewed this woman and monitored the responses actually made the column up. Isn’t it convenient how thoughtfully this woman seemed to consider every option, then wrote about her decision to “terminate” in a way that addressed almost every possible objection? The woman’s mother supposedly supports her, even the baby’s father supposedly stepped up, etc. Boy, these people are all just swell, aren’t they? Everybody is so reasonable and supportive; everybody seems to agree the only thing that matters is what the pregnant woman wants for herself. I smell a rat.
I notice the NY Times will only publish supportive comments towards the witch...... What a bunch of ghouls.
Yup, she spends a lot of time justifying killing a very inconvenient little human being.
It wouldn’t be the first time the NYT’s has made up a story.
The people I thought I could rely on are absent and it’s heartbreaking.
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What did she expect? Her friends are self-absorbed liberal/Marxists!
What a sick sick society we live in
Well, the way the baby’s father stepped up was to offer to give her a ride to the abortionist.
Incredibly, incredibly sad on all counts.
But killing the little zygote doesn't cause her any problems, apparently. Some people are so selfish they would rather kill their child than let someone else have the child. of course, this woman is probably a liberal -- they hate when other people get stuff, and think it's best if everybody suffers if they can't have what they want.
She new the "father" for 12 years, and thought he was a crappy guy who wouldn't step up to the plate on the pregnancy -- but that didn't keep her from sleeping with him and getting pregnant.
Of course her family is "supportive", what else are they going to do. And she talks about how all the other people who said they would help "disappeared", but having read what she thinks is justification for killing her child, I have no doubt she drove them off with her narcissism. Everything was about her, her needs, her wants, her fantasies, even how "bad" she would feel if someone else raised her child.
A sad thing is that not only is this woman terrible selfish, but if you go to the site and read the comments, there are lots of people who cheer on her murdering ways.
I think that screed pretty much explains why 1.5 million abortions are performed in this country every year.
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