[NYer]

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[NYer]

Consider the curious case of Ellen Burstyn -- neither a religious woman nor a pro-life advocate. The well-known 77-year-old actress (The Last Picture Show, The Exorcist, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore) shocked the secular world when she labeled her 18-year-old decision to abort "wrong, young, and dumb." That choice, she said, was "the lowest moment in her life." Understandably curious how a decision made more than 55 years ago could still deeply trouble Burstyn, an antsy male interviewer then asked, "Do you ever get over that?"

Academy Award winning actress Ellen Burstyn Says Abortion was the Worst Thing in Her Life

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[john drake]

Excellent posting, thank you. One issue in the “feminist” mentality for abortion-on-demand that demands women to exert control over their body, etc. for the “betterment and equality” of all women; it always perplexed me that 50% of the children being aborted are female, so where’s the “strength of unit amongst the sisters”, so to speak? The hatred of men by some of them I can understand, but to murder your comrades in arms?

[TigersEye]

But I did learn something I had little appreciated: I learned that loss of an unborn child is no longer communicated as a sad or mournful event, and that the chosen children -- those that a mother chooses to bear -- struggle to reconcile their existence with the elimination of unwanted siblings.

Are your parents Pro-Choice? I guess you got lucky. Is your spouse? Is your doctor?

[TASMANIANRED]

But I lost a little sister to SIDS when she was a week old.

I know it devastated my Mom and Dad..but I have carried it for years too.

The best friend that I didn’t have, the sister to share being a teenager with, to do all the things that sisters do.

Even as an adult, I’ve wondered about how things would have been different if she had lived.

[Misterioso]

Why did you post this in News/Activism? Dishonest.

[The Comedian]

Worshipers of Moloch, whether they know it or not, are going to experience the same fate as their human sacrifices.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[thecodont]

I’ve seen a work environment in which many educated, professional women have a family of two (one boy, one girl) and marvel at how so many of these women managed to be able to choose both the number and gender of their children.

It’s gotten to the point that when I see a family that breaks that pattern (only one child, two children of the same gender, three or more children) I tend to think of those children as “natural” and wanted, rather than “planned.”

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[RnMomof7]

What an excellent article ...it touched my heart ...

The right to life movement has been able to prevent the ‘normalization ‘ of abortion as morally neutral as has happened in Europe..

My thanks and prayers for the warriors for life

[HungarianGypsy]

Our first baby would have been a honeymoon conception. Only, I found out when I was 12 weeks along that I was carrying a dead 9 week old embryo. I hated that everyone, except my dad (family) said to “get move on” or “it’s for the best”, since my husband had lost his job staying home to take care of me when I had been having strange pains. The only good thing is afterward we tried for another baby. He, my oldest, was conceived a month before the one I miscarried would have been due. Most people tease us about having five children. Many don’t realize we really had six.

[Albion Wilde]

"Chosen" -- a term once richly imbued by Judeo-Christian history as that brand of unconditional love by God for each of His children (1 Jn 4:7, 16) -- has flattened and darkened to signify those children a mother opts to bear rather than abort.

[wagglebee]

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