Posted on 05/29/2003 1:20:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
LONDON, May 28, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The UK Life League, a British pro-life group has reported that Jane Russell, the 1940s and '50s Hollywood movie star and pin-up girl, now aged 82, gave an interview this week slamming abortion. "People should never, ever have an abortion. Don't talk to me about it being a woman's right to choose what she does with her own body. The choice is between life and death," said Russell.
Describing her shock at finding herself pregnant at 18: "The only solution was to find a quack and get an abortion. I had a botched abortion and it was terrible. Afterwards my own doctor said: 'What butcher did this to you?' I had to be taken to hospital. I was so ill I nearly died. I've never known pain like it." Russell says that due to the abortion she was not able to have any other children.
At best, your point only addresses a subset of abortions since it only relates to women who've already had at least one. Only those women could regret having an abortion, which means the regret deterrance could only apply to second or following abortions.
So unless you have statistics to indicate that a significant percentage of women who have one abortion have more than one, then with all due respect your point is meaningless. Feel free to try again.
(BTW, even assuming statistics are helpful to that point, you should probably factor in the length of time between the first abortion and the following ones. Your personal experience notwithstanding, it seems reasonable to address the idea that regret over an abortion grows over time.)
Cyrano
,,, was there ever any doubt? Hey, guess what? I won't have it aborted. How's that for a sense of humor?
,,, life's not always like that - if you let it live, that is.
Just say you had a child executed and you're sorry. Yeesh.
Bull. Your point is that you don't regret it because you spared yourself an inconvenience in the course of destroying a child. A child whose only crime was to be conceived by a self-centered, stubborn and willfully ignorant woman (that last part wasn't your point, it was mine).
The fact that you had an abortion isn't what makes you so utterly deplorable. It's your inability to admit a mistake and help prevent young women in situations similar to your own from making the same horrific error in judgement. Instead, you encourage them to do the same. How freakin' swell.
I do hope you grow up enough to mourn the death of your own child someday. But don't worry, I'm not praying for you (knowing how that offends you so).
Given the fact that you have so much pull around here that you now have NARAL moderating this thread, I'm sure this post will be nuked. But I don't really give a damn.
Something else you don't care about. There's news.
,,, the story of your life, in my estimation. I'm certain others on this thread have worked that out too.
Believe it or not, Hildy, there are women and girls in America who don't take killing another innocent individual so casually. That's why the truth sets them free from the darkness they face ... and it is vital that people like we pro-lifers applaud and assist her when she chooses life that she will not regret supporting, over a killing she will live to regret as she learns the truth. We are pro-life for HER also, Hildy!
I led a bitter and hateful life for years, but hey it was MY CHOICE. I almost lost the man I married because I was so convinced that I WAS ABOVE IT ALL and ME, ME ME. We married and there was no way in heck i was every gonna have kids, not me, no way. We finally had our first child in 1988, I was 31, and I soon understood what I had really and truly done. It was devastating to me, this GIFT FROM GOD was proof of his GRACE and his total LOVE for me, and I didn't deserve it, not after what I had done. I know now that with my repentence he has forgiven. But for years I was a fool, I was self centered.
My son is now going on 15 and heading for those same temptations and now I struggle whether to tell him or not. This is something that my husband and I will have to talk about, he knows but whether to tell our children or not is the next struggle we have.
know this may be too much info, but I just want to give my testimony of what so many others are probably going to encounter if they make that decision. It may not effect them the day after or a month later, or a year later, but IT will come back to haunt sooner or later, and if not that I believe is very rare. Because even in my ME WORLD, I NEVER FORGOT.
If I may - I was married to one of those for ten years. I paid for the abortion of our first child - this was prior to our getting married - and I have regretted it on a daily basis since that moment almost fourteen years ago. Afterwards, I found out that it was her third abortion at that point in time. We've been divorced almost three and a half years at this time, and she's had two (since the divorce) that she's mentioned in passing.
While the pill may be a great contraceptive, nothing gets attention from a man (usually) like saying "I'm pregnant."
13!!?? 13!!?? I thought I read that she was always wishing she could have a baby. That it was a major sadness in her life. I had heard that she had one abortion, and I felt sorry that she aborted the only baby she would ever have. Now I find out that it's 13!!??. I'd say she had 13 chances to have a baby.
> I would reccomend that you not tell your son. He may see you in a very different light that may not enhance your relationship with him at all. He may see you as a killer, or he may resent not having an older sibling.
The most important point is that you should not tell him if, in fact, you are doing it to make yourself feel better, to absolve your own sin. Confessing to others out of a sense of "liberal" "honesty" can be very cruel to the recipient of such. Beware.
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