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Huffington Post Writer: Celebrate Mother’s Day by Aborting Your Baby
LifeSiteNews ^ | 5/8/15 | Katie Yoder

Posted on 05/08/2015 11:32:57 AM PDT by wagglebee

In a bizarre move, a Huffington Post blogger is wishing women a “Happy Mother’s Day!” – by calling for an end to mothers’ “unwanted” babies.

In a May 6 Huffington Post piece, blogger Kristine Holmgren argued for “No More Angry Mothers; Embracing Accessible Abortion and Affordable Contraception.” In it, she announced that before “safe, affordable, accessible abortion” existed, most mothers were “angry mothers.” To prevent future “angry mothers,” Holmgren declared that women should “protect our liberties,” including “our birthright” to abortion this Mother’s Day.

Kristine Holmgren, a self-described “Feminist [Presbyterian] theologian and produced playwright” stressed a “deep commitment to the welfare of American children and the women who raise them.” A media-favorite, she has been published by outlets including The Guardian and The New York Times.

To begin her piece, Holmgren told the story of a pregnant 13-year-old girl who didn’t have an abortion –choosing life against Holmgren’s advice.

“And so it came to pass that an unwanted child brought an unwanted baby to a cold, cold world,” Holmgren lamented, “And another angry mother was spawned.”

That story haunts Holmgren every Mother’s Day, she said, and reminds her that “angry mothers are everywhere.”

“If you were born before women had access to safe, affordable, accessible abortion, chances are your mother was an angry mother,” she elaborated.

Even Holmgren’s own mother fit the description.

“So – I wasn’t (how shall I say this?) – planned,” Holmgren admitted. “Sometimes my mom called me her ‘baby.’ Most of the time she called me, ‘her final mistake.’”

But despite the “hard-earned lessons” from “our frustrated, angry mothers,” she continued, “American women are still vulnerable to poverty and the burden of unwanted childrearing.”

With the “near-perfect oral contraceptive” in the ‘60s and Roe v. Wade, Holmgren used to hold hope for women’s “ability to control our reproduction – the ability to choose – to be free.”

“I thought American women gained a glimpse into a world where every child was a wanted child,” she said, and “Every mother a happy mother.”

Those hopes evaporated as American women started calling feminists “feminazis” and hearing the “lie” that “abortion is murder.”

“We watched young vulnerable girls turn away from the morning after pill, shun the opportunity to abort their unwanted children,” Holmgren lamented.

Now, she said, abortion access is “limited and shrinking” while contraception is “demonized in our public schools” and even “erroneously linked to female death.”

“Abortion is not murder,” she retorted, and “[t]he birth control pill is not toxic, dangerous or destructive.”

To get that message out there, Holmgren “challenge[d] American women to renew their commitment to responsible, thoughtful motherhood” for this Mother’s Day.

“Let’s protect our liberties, reclaim safe, accessible abortion and contraception as our birthright,” she demanded, and “let us commit to a new future and a new promise” – the promise of “[n]o more angry mothers.”

Holmgren’s stance fit in well with The Huffington Post’s pro-abortion agenda in past pieces, including a blog arguing that “We Can Have Morally Good Abortions.”

LifeNews Note: Katie Yoder writes for Newsbusters, where this originally appeared.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2evil4words; abortion; evil; evilevil; moralabsolutes; mothersday; prolife
“If you were born before women had access to safe, affordable, accessible abortion, chances are your mother was an angry mother,” she elaborated.

Unbelievable!

1 posted on 05/08/2015 11:32:57 AM PDT by wagglebee
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2 posted on 05/08/2015 11:33:17 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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3 posted on 05/08/2015 11:33:53 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

Pure evil.


4 posted on 05/08/2015 11:35:11 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: wagglebee

“If any of you offend one of these little ones I say unto that man better that he had never been born.”-Jesus Of Nazareth.


5 posted on 05/08/2015 11:35:13 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: wagglebee

Liberals truly.are self-loathing and evil.


6 posted on 05/08/2015 11:35:38 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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To: wagglebee

This is sad.


7 posted on 05/08/2015 11:37:22 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: wagglebee
“So – I wasn’t (how shall I say this?) – planned,” Holmgren admitted. “Sometimes my mom called me her ‘baby.’ Most of the time she called me, ‘her final mistake.’”

This is yet another reason to raise our children with love, patience, and understanding. Terrible parents raise bitter democrats.

8 posted on 05/08/2015 11:38:25 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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“Huffington Post Writer: Celebrate Mother’s Day by Aborting Your Baby”

These sick left-wing b*stards have more sympathy and compassion for convicted cop killers than for innocent little human beings in the womb.


9 posted on 05/08/2015 11:38:45 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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SICK!


10 posted on 05/08/2015 11:40:52 AM PDT by madison10
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A bit of an oxymoron there - how can you be a mother if you abort your baby. Do that and then go on a protest march to save the snail darter or fuzzy-tailed jumping mouse ....


11 posted on 05/08/2015 11:52:42 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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Celebrate Mother’s Day by Aborting Your Baby Inspired by ministry experiences? Are you $hittin' me? Need further proof that Liberism is a mental disorder?
12 posted on 05/08/2015 11:57:20 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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I call for the right of fathers to end being forced to pay for and be responsible for their unwanted babies.

These people act as though only women can terminate an unwanted baby. Men get unwanted babies forced on them all the time.$$$$$$

I’m all for women being able to terminate their being a mother when men get the same option to terminate being a father.

What’s good for the gander is good for the goose.


13 posted on 05/08/2015 12:00:03 PM PDT by bdog2995 (Democrats ( Demonrats ) are the enemy!)
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To: wagglebee
Kristine Holmgren is obviously an elitist liberal. It's not as unbelievable as you may think. Too many liberals are simply sad, disgusting, moral-less souls.

Kudos to Newsbusters...and thanks to you for posting, wagglebee.
14 posted on 05/08/2015 12:04:21 PM PDT by hawaiianninja (Palm note to Americans: "Vote conservative, please! Pray for America!")
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To: wagglebee
I'm beginning to see the light when it comes to abortion. /Sarcasim

Post birth abortion is something I need to think more about, espectially as it realates to some writers.

15 posted on 05/08/2015 12:34:54 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
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To: wagglebee

Forty years later they are still repeating the lie that abortion will make “every child a wanted child.” There’s more, and sicker, child abuse today than ever - but it’s the fault of those awful Pro-lifers who make pregnant women feel bad about abortion. Not the fact that abortion made life, of the unborn and the born, cheap.


16 posted on 05/08/2015 12:55:17 PM PDT by informavoracious (Open your eyes, people!)
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LIBs: ghouls who worship death.


17 posted on 05/08/2015 1:33:46 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: wagglebee

IS there any doubt that Satan is the power behind the leftist attacks on the things of God?


18 posted on 05/08/2015 8:24:31 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: wagglebee

Too bad the blogger’s mother didn’t celebrate that way.....


19 posted on 05/08/2015 9:10:45 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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20 posted on 05/08/2015 9:39:18 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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