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America's civil war on abortion: read this troubling dispatch from a divided heartland (hurl alert)
Daily Mail ^ | 7th November 2022 | Sian Boyle

Posted on 11/07/2022 2:21:14 PM PST by Ennis85

On the night flight from Atlanta to Detroit, I meet a woman who embodies many of the complexities of America’s abortion debate.

Sitting next to me on the two-hour journey north from the steamy bayous of Georgia to the industrial city on the Canadian border is Keysha, 24. Exhausted and burdened by bags and baby gear, she accepts my offer to help change her eight-week-old baby’s clothes during the flight.

We balance her little boy on the tray table, me supporting his head and Keysha tenderly pulling his tiny arms through the sleeves of his onesie.

And then, 36,000 feet above the dark Appalachian Mountains, Keysha makes an extraordinary and brave confession.

She tells me she was pressured by her boyfriend into having her son, Mason. She has ‘no life’ and no support.

‘I thought I really wanted a baby’, she tells me quietly in the dark confines of the night flight. But I really wish I’d waited.’

One day, her beautiful baby boy will grow up and perhaps learn the truth about his mother’s dilemma during her pregnancy. Maybe she will watch him thrive and come to change her mind about choosing to keep him.

Her decision to take me into her confidence (and give permission for her story to be told) seems desperately poignant at a time when the subject of abortion is once again tearing America apart.

In June, a decision by a conservative-leaning Supreme Court overruled the landmark Roe v Wade ruling of 1973, which enshrined the constitutional right to an abortion for American women.

The ‘pro-choice’ movement, which favours abortion rights, argues that the move erased almost half a century of women’s freedom overnight. Their ‘pro-life’ opponents, who believe life begins at conception, welcomed the move as a step that will save millions of ‘babies’

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; biden; chat; election2022; prolife
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1 posted on 11/07/2022 2:21:14 PM PST by Ennis85
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To: Ennis85

Nauseating all the way through.


2 posted on 11/07/2022 2:21:41 PM PST by Ennis85
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To: Ennis85

Does Atlanta have “steamy bayous”?


3 posted on 11/07/2022 2:23:03 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Ennis85

It’s amazing how the word adoption never appears

Killing is the only option.


4 posted on 11/07/2022 2:24:10 PM PST by lonestar67 (America is exceptional)
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To: Ennis85

Disgusting. It’s murder. The worst phrase ever in the abortion debate is Pro-Life. It should be anti-murder. Anytime pro-choice is used it should immediately be corrected as pro-murder.


5 posted on 11/07/2022 2:33:41 PM PST by ConservativeInPA ( Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: Ennis85

Its quite evident these people worship Moloch and child death.


6 posted on 11/07/2022 2:35:40 PM PST by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: Ennis85

“...Roe v Wade ruling of 1973, which enshrined the constitutional right to an abortion...”


Roe v Wade didn’t ‘enshrine the constitutional right to abortion’, it created it. The majority justices supposedly found it hiding in the ‘penumbra’ of a ‘right to privacy’ which is implied, but not stated.

The ‘conservative-leaning Supreme Court’ simply returned the decision on the legality of abortion to the states where it had been for the first two hundred years of the Republic.


7 posted on 11/07/2022 2:35:43 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: BenLurkin

Maybe the non-Landlocked Atlanta of Futurama ... before it sank.


8 posted on 11/07/2022 2:36:21 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Ennis85

The whole problem is that the left will not accept anyone below 1 year old as a human being. I have never heard of anyone referring to an unborn animal as a fetus or potential animal.

I suppose they think animals are above us.


9 posted on 11/07/2022 2:37:01 PM PST by NTHockey (My rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: BenLurkin

Swamps. I don’t ever recall a bayou being in GA. It’s a Franco-English term, i.e., Cajun or Acadian. (See Louisiana)


10 posted on 11/07/2022 2:37:24 PM PST by ConservativeInPA ( Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: Ennis85

I bet.


11 posted on 11/07/2022 2:38:15 PM PST by sauropod (The New York Times' 1619 Project's Nikole Hannah-Jones: "all journalism is activism.")
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To: Ennis85

If this encounter even happened, I suspect Keysha is not her real name. That’s a lot of opening up to a total stranger, but it may be common when from one young lady to another young lady.


12 posted on 11/07/2022 2:39:43 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Ennis85

There was never a ‘constitutional right’ to an abortion. It was invented out of whole cloth by an activist court that was unconstitutionally usurping the delegated powers of Congress.


13 posted on 11/07/2022 2:40:29 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: Ennis85

There are no bayous in Atlanta.


14 posted on 11/07/2022 2:40:35 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. )
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To: Ennis85

This story has nothing to do with abortion. She doesn’t say she accidentally got pregnant and she was forced to keep the baby. She gives us two stories. She said she was pressured by her boyfriend. But at the same time she said she thought she really wanted a child.


15 posted on 11/07/2022 2:42:38 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Ennis85

I get the impression it’s fiction, used to get our emotions to feel for this Mom.
No way, not buying it.


16 posted on 11/07/2022 2:43:34 PM PST by lula (Shine the light of truth Lord, confound the deceiver I pray...AMEN!)
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The ‘pro-choice’ movement, which favours abortion rights

Funny, the ONLY option they believe in is KILLING your baby. I am kind of surprised this guy/girl didn't try to perform a Late Term Abortion right there on the plane.
17 posted on 11/07/2022 2:46:28 PM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: Ennis85

This article is nothing but a lie.


18 posted on 11/07/2022 2:49:08 PM PST by ChuckHam
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To: Ennis85

Fake.


19 posted on 11/07/2022 2:49:21 PM PST by rxh4n1
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To: Ennis85

Remember these people.

Demonic influence on earth is not a myth.


20 posted on 11/07/2022 2:50:57 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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