Welcome aboard Ron. I’m happy to see you here. I hope you’ll be an active poster.
Occasionally you’ll see comments from someone who doesn’t belong here, but according to our founder, Jim Robinson, this is a pro-life site. He was a vocal supporter of Terri Schiavo, and has voiced his support for other victims and potential victims of the euthanasia movement.
Statement by the founder of Free Republic ~ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1103363/posts . “As a conservative site, Free Republic is pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-Constitution, pro-Bill of Rights...” You should read the whole statement. I think you’ll find most, if not all of it to be right in line with your own views.
I think you’ll also find that Free Republic is a good forum for getting your message out there, and for gathering information to help you in your efforts to defend vulnerable people.
Thank you for your work to protect those in the crosshairs of the euthanasia movement.
Thread by me.
August 15, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Unlike aborting a child conceived naturally, ending the life of an unborn child conceived by in-vitro fertilization (IVF) feels like just another choice in an already consumerish process, one IVF mom confessed in an article for the New York Times.
If I had conceived these twins naturally, I wouldnt have reduced this pregnancy, because you feel like if theres a natural order, then you dont want to disturb it, the mom, Jenny, told author Ruth Padawer.
But we created this child in such an artificial manner in a test tube, choosing an egg donor, having the embryo placed in me and somehow, making a decision about how many to carry seemed to be just another choice.
The pregnancy was all so consumerish to begin with, and this became yet another thing we could control.
Padawer explained in the article that the couple decided to abort the twin because they felt that, at best, she could give each one only half of her attention and, she feared, only half of her love. The couple had to fly in a doctor from thousands of miles away because local physicians refused to abort their twin.
While initially a remedy for IVF megapregnancies (when numerous embryos unexpectedly survive the implantation process), so-called selective reduction abortions have became an option for pregnancies as common and normal as twins.
But aborting a twin has proven difficult to swallow even for the pro-abortion IVF business culture, and many doctors, while allowing other abortions, still refuse to commit them on a twin. One expert quoted in Padawers article recalled how, when the question of killing one twin was put to his clinic staff in the late 1990s, every one of them - the sonographer, the genetic counselors, the schedulers - supported abortion rights, but all confessed their growing unease with reductions to a singleton.
Padawer ended the article with the story of two anonymous lesbians who both learned they were pregnant with twins through IVF on the first birthday of their son, who was also conceived by IVF. One woman miscarried, and the other aborted one of her unborn children.
While grateful that the abortion was possible, the latter woman, who is due in December, said she still wondered if she chose the right one.
Even as it was happening, I wondered what the future would have been if the doctor had put the needle into the other one, she said.