Posted on 03/13/2012 5:48:02 AM PDT by IbJensen
NEW YORK, NEW YORK, March 12, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – American Idol judge Steve Tyler and his then-girlfriend still regret her abortion. So does former Britney Spears backup singer Kelly Clinger. So do millions of other famous and anonymous women across the country and around the world.
Not Amanda Chatel, a self-described “selfish” New York-based freelance writer. In an online article posted on the website The Gloss on Friday, she claimed she had an abortion in 2005, calling it “the best decision of my life” and writing that she prefers the companionship of her Jack Russell terrier to motherhood.
Chatel left her “very liberal” family and moved to New York City to become a writer. “I wanted a life that sparkled,” she told the New York Post. Within months, she was pregnant but could not believe her diagnosis, because she “drank too much, smoked too many cigarettes, too much pot and had also dabbled in a few other recreational items.”
Despite her fiercely “pro-choice” upbringing and her resolute decision to abort her child – supported by the baby’s father – she began to feel differently about herself. “I was all of a sudden dirty. I was a slut. I was disgusting,” she wrote.
The idea that she was “carrying something unwanted, unloved and a burden to my life and my future” wore her down. “I hated myself for thinking something that was part of me was so repulsive,” she wrote.
She proceeded to research what 10-week-old babies looked like, “torturing” herself by asking, “Did it have hands? Did it have eyes?”
“The nights leading up to my abortion, I’d lay in my bed with my hands on my stomach apologizing” and calling her unborn child by name. Still, she never saw her baby as more than “just cells.”
She claims she had an abortion on Holy Saturday 2005, adding her mother could not be with her because she could not “explain to my Catholic grandmother that Easter is canceled because my mom needs to run to NYC for her daughter’s abortion.”
How does she feel now?
“My abortion is something that never really crosses my mind at all, and in the brief moments that it does, I feel almost guilty that I don’t feel guilty about the decision I made seven years ago,” Chatel writes.
If she had become a mother, she states she would have missed out on other life experiences, like being in a cafe in Paris suffering “a necessary and deliciously inspiring heartbreak.” She would not “write for The Gloss or live in NYC or have my Hubbell.”
Hubbell, her Jack Russell terrier, was a gift from her parents in the wake of her abortion.
“Hubbell is my baby,” she wrote. “Hubbell is the age my child would be this year had I not had my abortion.” She tattooed his name on her arm “as a reminder that sometimes the most difficult decisions end up being the best.”
The author, whose Twitter handle is @AngryChatel, told the New York Post she was dedicated to remaining childless. “I am selfish!” she admitted.
“My sister, who’s two years younger, is married and has two kids,” she said. “I just look at her life, and it’s really my worst nightmare.”
Chatel is shutting down her low-traffic blog to concentrate on freelancing for such outlets as The Gloss, Untapped New York, Jewcy, and Green Shoelace.
Reflecting on her abortion, she wrote last Friday, “It was not a decision I wanted to make, but hell, it was the best decision of my life…I would not have it any other way.”
At least one detail of her story is out of place. Amanda claimed the date of her abortion, March 27, is “ingrained in my memory no matter what I try to do about it,” adding it “was the Saturday of Easter weekend.” But March 27, 2005, was Easter Sunday.
If authentic, her remorseless reaction would represent an additional deviation from the norm. Last September, the largest meta-analysis of abortion data, involving more than 877,000 women, discovered abortion led to a 155 greater risk of attempted suicide, as well as greater substance abuse and depression. A 2009 study in New Zealand found 85 percent of post-abortive women suffered a negative emotional consequence as a result of their abortion.
Sounds a bit like Stanley Dunham.
Search.
What a self-centered, egomaniacal, vapid little bitch.
Jack Russell terriers deserve better mommies
Someday her sister’s kids will pick crazy Aunt Amanda’s nursing home and Aunt Amanda will leave all her money to the SPCA
At least Stanley Dunham saw her child as a ticket to Africa to be part of a tribal harem... if you want to believe the story about Barry’s paternity
She’ll never know what she missed, but God knows.
Parenthood changed my perceptions about many things. What this poor soul doesn’t realize is that it would have changed hers, too. Or she would have wound up like Casey Anthony, because she’s that evil. One of the two.
This woman will never know what true love is. Most people think it’s the love between a man and a woman. I submit it is the love you feel for your children. There is nothing like it. Is it easy? No, but it is the most enduring and satisfying.
Amen.
But you don’t know it until you experience it.
And those that don’t experience it? They take your words as “hate”
The world is getting flipped upside down.
Thus, an unemployed lefty justifies her abortion because a baby would have interfered with her boozing and drugging.
“I prefer my dog to a child; after all, my agenda can still be fulfilled, if not by the womb, then by Public School recruitment”.
Good point, and no woman can accurately say that she loves a man if she is willing to kill that man’s child by abortion.
This is evolution at its best.
Who would want a child of this beast in our world?
If this bitch’s mother had her aborted, it would have been the best decision in her life.
This statement right here points to how much the Left bastardizes words. "Pro-choice" is supposed to mean that the person can choose. In this case, "choice" means abortion, period.
The Left wants us to believe that pro-life means that women will be forced to have and keep children. They want us to believe that pro-choice means that they can choose to abort or to carry the child to term. In an overwhelming number of cases, women who claim to be "pro-choice" feel that they don't want a child but damn the consequences of having sex with every Tom, Dick, and Harry on the block.
I'm gonna call BS on this author. My bet is that she's using this as an unverifiable truth to further an agenda. I bet no one ever knocked her up nor did she ever get pregnant. If she can produce proof, I might listen, but she'll never get any of my sympathy. You don't want a baby? Keep your legs closed or join a convent!
“Mental illness is such a tragic thing to behold”
Best decision of her life, she’s so happy she did it, but her twitter name is AngryChatel. Don’t all happy well adjusted people add “Angry” before their name?
So sad that these wacko liberals don’t even know they are wacko!
There are some people's genes that simply don't belong in the pool. If they want to keep themselves out, you almost have to think of it from two perspectives. One, a completely innocent child has been murdered, but two, maybe the effect of this worthless POS will end here. Sad as it seems, the benefit of one almost outweighs the other.
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