Posted on 08/15/2012 10:35:00 AM PDT by 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.
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As a unicorn, you should know! :-)
Referring back to her remark about proving the existence of unicorns — no disrespect to unicorns!
This bumpkin doesn’t understand what her mother gave her when she chose life. She gave her credibility which is the only thing we are truly born with. Too bad she has already lost it.
It's not too late. You can still self-abort.
Depraved. Truly. This is what is left when someone has been successfully convinced that there is no G-d except wealth. These lefties piss and moan all the time about rich people, but it’s a fact that they serve mammon utterly. We must pray for someone like this that G-d throws a lifeline somewhere along the way, and she grabs it.
You might have a hard time making that point with the Amish.
Easy for her to say - now.
In Jesus' name, Amen.
This woman needs our prayers and fast! Unfortunately, the time she spent in some weird hyper-Calvinist “ Christian” sect seems to have poisoned her against Christianity and reinforced in her the idea that she is evil and worthless.
Prayers for her; I hope soembody can show her that God loves her and she is not evil and worthless.
“...I wish she had aborted me. ...”
Got news fer ya there Lynn Beisner, ol’sport...
I wish she had too... we all pretty much wish yer ma did, after reading yer article...
Waist high, right across the plate...
“Anti-Choice Activists”...??? She means normal people who don’t consider murdering an infant anything other than outright murder...
Man...they REALLY are unhinged, aren’t they...
Limbaugh was right; when these people are out of power, they’re pathetic and ridiculous. When they’re in power, they’re lethal and dangerous.
LOL! Yeah, we were told that too. Abortions weren't legal then, and I can still remember when one of my classmates ended up pregnant and had to leave school. She was one of the brainy ones, so we were all surprised at what had happened. Back then the general notion was, only bad girls get pregnant, and even if you did have sex with your boyfriend, we were so naive, that we thought it could never happen to us. I know she gave the baby up for adoption because when I graduated from highschool, I went to work for the county's Child Welfare Department. I came across her old record one time in the closed cases. She was a very sweet girl, and I always hoped that she found happiness in her life.
Insanity is being bred into the left. Their lord and master Darwin will get them in the end.
no such thing as Santa claus or miracles. If abortion can prevent one life of frustration, boredom, and pain, it's worth it. The frustration, and pain of one life outweigh the unknown life of one not lived knowing pain
ps, if I could pick up a rifle and walk from the east coast to the west coast, life may be worth it, but that option is no longer an option. To many rules to keep the unwashed safe and the taxes coming in from the unknowning.
“Anti-Choice.”
Guns, tobacco, trans fats, Big Gulps, schools, health plans, Social Security investments, right to work, voter ID, border security, religious freedom, etc.
Anti-Choice indeed.
Did she ever hear of adoption?
I was thinking more of a gun to the head. What ever works I guess.
They live in Britain. There you have to bribe the physician to *not* kill you, and that only works if you can overcome their homicidal urges.
“No, Pleeeeeaaaasssee let me kill you! I’m good at killing, you won’t feel a thing! If I kill enough people this quarter, I’ll get a bonus and all the other health care killers will be sooooo jealous!”
“If you don’t let me kill you, I’m going to have to kill two small children when I’m driving home today. I’ll run them over with my car, and it will be *your* fault! And then I’ll have to throw a bag of kittens into the river, and that will be *your* fault, too, because you are being mean and greedy and not letting me kill you!”
the more caring of us future suicides will use gas, not near as messy a cleanup and no chance of missing.
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