I wish my mother had aborted me

The Guardian ^ | 8/15/2012 | Lynn Beisner

[mojito]

If there is one thing that anti-choice activists do that makes me see red, it is when they parade out their poster children: men, women and children who were "targeted for abortion". They tell us "these people would not be alive today if abortion had been legal or if their mothers had made a different choice".

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The narrative that anti-choice crusaders are telling is powerful, moving, and best of all it has a happy ending. It makes the woman who carries to term a hero, and for narrative purposes it hides her maternal failing. We cannot argue against heroic, redemptive, happy-ending fairytales using cold statistics. If we want to keep our reproductive rights, we must be willing to tell our stories, to be willing and able to say, "I love my life, but I wish my mother had aborted me."

An abortion would have absolutely been better for my mother. An abortion would have made it more likely that she would finish high school and get a college education. At college in the late 1960s, it seems likely she would have found feminism or psychology or something that would have helped her overcome her childhood trauma and pick better partners. She would have been better prepared when she had children. If nothing else, getting an abortion would have saved her from plunging into poverty. She likely would have stayed in the same socioeconomic strata as her parents and grandparents who were professors. I wish she had aborted me because I love her and want what is best for her.

Abortion would have been a better option for me. If you believe what reproductive scientists tell us, that I was nothing more than a conglomeration of cells, then there was nothing lost.

[MrPiper]

Ps, my guitar plus boose helps.......

[MrPiper]

PSS, bringing kids into this world voluntarily is a sin. But accidents are ok.

[MrPiper]

I mean should be a sin.......

[MrPiper]

Proverbs 8:36b: “All they that hate me love death.”

but I don't hate him, just life is not worth the pain!!!!!

[Bellflower]

but I don't hate him, just life is not worth the pain!!!!!

Life is to worth the pain. Take it from me, as I have had tremendous pain of all sorts, emotional and physical, and I can attest to the fact that, yes, it is worth the pain.

Whenever you love, there will ultimately be heartache, but love is everything, and real love lives on forever. These may sound like only pretty words, but they are not just pretty words, for they are absolute, rock solid reality.