"You killed my brother!"
Posted on 04/14/2017 1:51:08 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: 'There's a little bit of sadness': Female reverend reveals how she had an abortion 12 years ago during a crumbling marriage
A female reverend has revealed how she had an abortion nearly 12 years ago and how the mother-of-one suffered some sadness in not having two children.
Reverend Susan Chorley was in a crumbling marriage, had a two-year-old son and was stressed out as relatively new pastor when she decided to get an abortion.
Since June, the 44-year-old has begun to publicly reveal her secret as she speaks at seminars for a project she has launched with other women who have had abortions as a way to advocate for 'pro-voice' discussions.
Chorley, of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, said she had to confront the issue when her son asked her about abortions and the Boston-area minister admitted she had a bit of sadness over not having a second child.
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I think SHE’S the flashing red light. Disgusting that she burdened her 10 year old son with this. Me, me, me... puke.
I have seen where the surviving siblings of those murdered by abortion become rabidly pro-abortion. I suspect it is a psychological defense. No one wants to believe that their own mother is capable of killing them with about as much regret as she would spare to killing a cockroach, and that the only reason they survived when their sibling(s) did not is because of their mother’s changing whims. So they become rabidly pro-abortion to try to hide from that horrific knowledge.
This could happen with that little boy. Or he could become fearful that his mother will decide to “get rid” of him one day, too.
“I try very hard not to condemn women who have had abortions because God is their judge, but it does seem she is feeling a lot of guilt deep down; hence the need for public confession and telling her son.”
Over these years of posting pro life stuff I’ve tried very very hard not to condemn women who had abortion. I know how they’ve been lied to by the abortion industry.
This case however, and FReepers please help even me here, any woman who calls herself a pastor should have known better. Unless she grew up in a piss poor church, went to a piss poor seminary or got her “reverend” title from a Cracker Jack Box she knew what the Bible said on murder and how God felt about life in the uterus.
She had to have known better.
FFS, I hate this state.
I learned that I can’t save everyone, or anyone in particular if they don’t want it.
Luckily I had some Catholic literature, knew I had to let my daughter make up her own mind (I did explain my position and why) decided not to get one (reinforced by the boy's Catholic parents).
My spiritual journey has been very tortuous and still is. It's lucky her dad didn't try to bribe her into getting one. He had his daughter by his second wife get one or two.
The church I grew up in I did learn just a little of the bible but wasn't sure what fornication even meant. The big "sins" were smoking and drinking. I've been a little angry about it, but shouldn't deprecate the church which has a lot of nice people and does good works. But my conscience told me I had to leave, and I did.
Bitch! She murdered her baby, and is now making money off her story!
Let me help...Unitarianism is the denomination for atheists and agnostics who like to go to church!
Obviously if one contemplates Mary to any depth, considers her situation from a worldly POV, it would be horrendous to do whatever they did in those days. But still we don't know how God would deal with the woman.
Only the ancient churches and a few fundamentalist Protestant churches teach it is wrong. Some unbelievers think it is wrong; what they base it on I'm not sure but good they do.
“The bible doesn’t explicitly say it’s wrong or murder.”
The 6th commandment. We all know that’s a life.
I know it, but the other side argues it’s something else, spin, self-deception, denial and so on.
I learned that the very hard way.
I dont know if i was in love with her because she was gorgeous, fragile, damaged or all three.
Florence Nightingale syndrome can happen to men to even though it sounds fruity.
“Thou shalt not kill”. Quite unequivocal.
“Florence Nightingale syndrome can happen to men to even though it sounds fruity.”
It’s not. With men it’s usually called “knight in shining armor” syndrome.
I was fortunate (whew!) in that all of the crazy ones weren’t interested in being rescued by me, and went on to “enrich” other guys’ lives.
The ones that would actually have been good catches I wasn’t interested in at the time.
That, in a nutshell, is why I’m still single.
I wasn't that firm in my religious beliefs back then.
A strange thing happened years ago on the catholic newsgroup on usenet. I'd argue with the atheists about abortion being wrong, used to ask some how they like it if their mother aborted them.
One poster it was like screaming it through the message onto my screen that my mother had "killed" my older brother. It kind of haunted me, such an odd thing, and I always wanted a baby brother very badly but my mother refused to have any more children (she was an older first-time mother) besides my sister and me.
Off and on, I got to thinking about it. My mom, could she have before she married my dad? A family secret my sister and I were never told until after she died was that she had been married and divorced before she met my father but no children came from it.
Then I remembered her talking occasionally about her trip to Mexico and Cuba. Would have been in the 30's. I'll never know in this world. My father and I talked about religion very occasionally but he didn't believe in spaying animals (I do now) so I suspect he wouldn't have approved of abortion even though it was never mentioned. They were good parents, but they weren't religious.
My dad never said anything about his parents, but I think they didn't tell them my mother had been married before because, knowing my grandmother and that small town, she would have had a fit.
I still feel guilty about some other things but confessed them all and wouldn't do them again, didn't procure an abortion (it would have terrified me maybe more than having a baby but I never ever wanted to have an out-of-wedlock child)..
Eating some walleye fillets, and they have a few tiny sharp bones, trying not to swallow one. I like catfish and salmon better.
There are also many more who don’t regret their abortions because they aren’t taught/don’t believe they are taking a life and it’s legal. It’s a convenience for many of them and just about everything they see/hear/know tells them there is nothing wrong with it.
It shouldn’t be about what a woman “feels” but about what is right. The narrative has changed. Many people, including our churches, don’t emphasize morality and personal responsibility. We pay for abortions and we also pay (taxpayers) for welfare recipients and their dependents whereas historically families and charities/churches took care of people.
Yep, that’s how I took it, too.
Better single than in hell!!!
I KNOW my life would have been a living hell with that gal.
I’m a blunt man. I love my wife but she is Very In Love with me. God only knows why. I’m a disaster. On too many levels to count :)
But she has had a had life before we met and I did the knight thing with her and though she’s nuts, she’s a very kind hearted nut and treats me great.
The age old question of marrying when you love someone or ONLY when you are IN LOVE with someone I cannot answer.
Would the endorphin high of the other girl offset the horrific nightmare she would have put me through? Who knows? But i think not.
What a thing to tell a kid! Think he may develop "survivor's guilt"?
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