Posted on 10/30/2009 7:08:01 AM PDT by Publius804
An addiction that only motherhood could cure
Irene Vilar tries to explain the pathology that led her to abort 15 pregnancies
The two little impossibilities want Mami's attention.
Loretta, a self-assured and quietly focused 5-year-old, hides squiggly line drawings under the furniture at a relative's home in Alexandria. Lolita, a high-spirited 3-year-old, sways to Beethoven's "Für Elise."
Mami scoops up both daughters. They tumble into the soft embrace of the couch, all squeals and nuzzles and squirmy delight. The girls start wriggling loose, and Mami pulls them back. One more hug. For an instant, it's as if releasing them would somehow make them disappear, would confirm their utter impossibility.
That Irene Vilar embraces the role of motherhood is a grand incongruity, a mind-blower. She has just published a precariously nuanced, intellectually ambitious and unnervingly frank memoir titled "Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict." In the book, Vilar writes about a "shameful" period in her life -- before she became a mother -- when she says she underwent 15 abortions in 15 years.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Probably Bush’s Fault.
She’s living the liberal dream....
“...precariously nuanced, intellectually ambitious and unnervingly frank...”
Ahh, the fabled triple adverb-adjective combo. Technically, only people with useless college degrees are allowed to employ such a turn of phrase.
I could not read it. Makes my flesh crawl.
A friend of mine I no longer talk much with said she lost total track of how many abortions she had ... I wouldn’t be surprised if it was around 15. She lives pained to this day and doesn’t even understand the connection. Yes, it’s sad indeed.
I had a friend like this once. A long time ago. I’m in my 40’s now.
She was a nurse, of all things. Who was amazingly fertile, evidently. Each new boyfriend yielded a new abortion. After three, I asked her what she was thinking and offered to try to help. After six, I wondered why she was still someone I considered a friend. And I never spoke to her again; to this very day.
However, I pray for her every day and hope that something snapped some sense into her, since I sure wasn’t able to.
Uggh - saw this elsewhere.
Don’t know what is worse. The cavalier abortions, The evil, irresponsible pervert professor (symbol of our higher education today), or the fact that although this woman has seen God’s grace through the love of her children, she still supports abortion.
Several times I have had the experience of certain laquered, self consciously chic “women of a certain age” casting acidic glares at my kid when I have been hanging out with him at a park or mall, just having fun together.
I noticed too the utterly unhinged, demonic hatred some of these types dumped upon Sarah Palin and so tellingly upon her family.
I wonder how much “aborter’s remorse” is out there for those now punished for not being punished with a baby?
If that is indeed what Robin Morgan believes, then she'd also have to admit that many hundreds of thousands of abortions every year are not "consensual" or "by choice," because of the "power imbalance" of the mating couple.
Of course, she does not conclude that. But she should according to her own published definitions and values.
Abortion is never the choice of the child. Often not the choice of the man. And very often not the free (true, uncoerced, knowledgeable and willing) choice of the woman, either, especially if she is very poor, vey young, or (like Vilar) very emotionally dependent.
Truly pathetic that so-called feminists support this ugly, cruel, pitiful travesty.
This line pretty much tells the story about the pro-abort movement. If they think getting an abortion is such a great idea or is really no different than say using a condom, why isn't this woman championed for all her abortions?
With more than Fifty Million (50,000,000) legal surgical abortions in the USA since 1973, the answer to your question is "A Lot"
I hate to say this, but she just didn’t give a shit about the abortion. Good grief, she was a nurse. She knew about birth control, of course.
It was stunning.
I just suddenly couldn’t stand the sound of her voice when she wanted to go out (back in the day). Eventually, I felt dirty just being in the same room with her, even though I’d done nothing wrong.
The kicker? She was one of the nicest people I ever knew in my whole life.
She presented me with a disconnect that I could never reconcile.
This woman is quite unbalanced. I’m sorry that she is so fertile. I’m sorry that she has any kids. They will suffer from her conflicted personality. She wants another child now? No conscience.
Considering the likelyhood of getting pregnant from a single act of intercourse which must be experienced within a certain time frame I’ll bet that this person is NEVER off of her back.
Here we go again. We applaud addicts who go to rehab like they just saved the world (from themselves?) or won the Nobel Peace Prize...that evidently means nothing.
What a world of the self-centered.
This abortion addict named her daughter “Lolita”? THere are no words...
I give her credit for her confession but she’ll have to see God for forgiveness.
Why would anyone think she could suddenly be a good mother now? I predict she’ll snap and kill her kids to get her old life back.
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