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.
Uggg! there definitely was some booze involved.
Very sad that she didn’t figure out how completely selfish she is until somebody else was sacrificed at her altar of “freedom”.
Tragic. This woman is pitiful.
This poor woman is obviously deeply conflicted and "compensating" for what she has done. Its clear that deep in her heart, she knows her grave error, and mourns her child, yet can't bring herself to admit it. Yet she uses the fake words and notions of the abortion movement as cheap justification.
my bad...
All fluker sluts look the same to me...
Another slut.
It’s too bad that her mother didn’t believe in birth control or abortions.
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The problem with our society is that we give greater honor and legal protection to them than we do to those who try to do right even if when it hurts.
This silly woman sounds like she is deluding herself, although maybe she is a sociopath.
One thing of which I am confident is that Miss Chatel would never truly give a rat's tail as to what I, or anybody else, would want but would certainly expect us all to cater to her every wish.
What a shame her parents weren’t dog lovers....
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Wonder if she’ll feel the same when she’s sixty, old and alone...?
I think the irony here is that the writer did not give birth to the dog she loves. She got it from another (canine) mother. Would her life be worse if her dog had been aborted? Whose life has she made worse by aborting the child they would have been happy to care for?
——“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.”-——
Is this called “transference?” If not, it should be. Obviously, her decision pains her. Someday she will address her pain openly, either when she has children, or when she passes child-bearing age.
Planned infanticide won’t be there to support her.
No kidding. If you'd asked me to envision a stereotypical liberal abortion-lover, she would have looked just like this one. Ugly short haircut, ugly thick-rimmed (but oh-so-fashionable) glasses, and a smug, arrogant expression on her face.
Probably not, but liberal women don't exactly have the gift of foresight. I've known a few of these types over the years. They have a demographic checklist of all of the people they've had sex with in order to establish their open-mindedness (White dude? Check. Black dude? Check. Dude that's 20 years older than her? Check. Dude that's a woman? Check.) They get abortions like it's some kind of feminist rite of passage, then realize once they're in their mid-to-late 30s and still looking for the perfect man that they may never have a child at all.
So sad. She definitely needs Jesus in her life—but first she needs to realize she needs Him! All sins can be forgiven, but she will not recognize or acknowledge her sin, and she will laugh at the idea of God reigning supreme until finally she is so desperate, so alone, so miserable that then she will realize how wrong she has been to put herself at the center of her universe. Only when she is broken will her soul be able to be healed.
Right now it sounds like she still is hard-headed and hard-hearted, too. Again, so very sad...
“What a self-centered, egomaniacal, vapid little bitch.”
Look on the bright side. This critter will never curse the world by spawning.
The sexual revolution, so called, has left countless women in the same boat.
Or, put in old fashioned terms, “Why buy the cow when the milk is free?”
This story is BS. She made it up to draw attention to her ‘freelance’ writing resume.
Worse than that, she’s a murderer.
It is not over until it is over!
Too bad you mother did not believe and practice what you believe and practice!
In some cases it would have been better to have not been born; such as Judus Isariot.
“But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost; In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them, which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.” (2 Corinthians 4:3-4)
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