[madprof98]

Susan Yolen, vice president for public affairs of Planned Parenthood of Connecticut, agrees that publicizing these stories is the best inoculation against the shame many women feel about having had abortions.

This is apparently the Left's answer to the Silent No More campaign. I personally know some women like the ones in the article--people who are proud of killing their own offspring. I think that if they are matched against those who feel remorse (and especially against those who did choose life), our side will come out on top every time.

[Senator Pardek]

I rarely posts to abortion threads, but...

She wasn't interested in having a child with a philandering alcoholic...

But it's OK to bang one?!

[Moose4]

I'm getting physically sick after reading this. This is incredible. How can they believe that normal, responsible people can read this selfish trash and not be even more determined to fight for the sanctity of life?

}:-)4

[Mobilemitter]

Change title of article to : "I had a Mother"

They make it sound like, "I had a V-8". Just another all consuming act executed (literally) by self consumed people. '.... and there was no light in them.'

[RedMonqey]

"She decided to announce to her doctors that she had had three abortions when she was in her 20s and early 30s when she was a medical student in Vienna, and another, after the war, when she was a resident in a Philadelphia hospital where she met her husband."

Where are the stories about rape and incest and abusvive husbands?

The one which the pro death crowd ALWAYS say are the main reasons they use to justify murdering their children.

[RedMonqey]

"... fleeing from Latvia during World War II, separated from her family and living as a refugee in DP camps.... had three abortions when she was in her 20s and early 30s when she was a medical student IN VIENNA, and another, after the war..."




She fled for HER LIFE during the HOLOCAUST but where could HER BABIES flee to during THEIR HOLOCAUST?

[RedMonqey]

"Forty three percent of American women will have had an abortion before they exit their reproductive years. It's the most common surgery in the United States,"



Huh? Where did they poll? Outside Planned Parenthood?

I'd like to see where she gets that figure. Judging by the stories these women offer, seems like there's alot of women getting multiple abortions and skewing the population/abortion ratio.

[Aliska]

I don't like to bash women like this because it doesn't help things in the long run.

I was impressed by the men who wanted to take the honorable course.

I don't like the idea of telling these stories with the intention of goading other impressionable women into doing as they have done. Misery seems to love company.

I don't know anyone in my family who got an abortion, but it could have happened. My neighbor's aunt had six abortions, and that would have been before it was legal. Hard to fathom.

Before abortion, life wasn't a bed of roses for a lot of women either, and if they ever had the misfortune of having an illegitimate child, people made sure they paid, and paid, and paid, so it had to be kept secret.

It is my belief that one can make the best of a bad situation and come through in the end better for it.

I feel pity for these women, because I don't think they gained one second of happiness by having their abortions, even though they don't seem wracked by guilt that many women feel after having an abortion.

I don't know any abortion stories with happy endings.

[Artist]

Well, I feel sick after reading that.

I'm so grateful that the birth mothers of my children loved them enough to let them live....to be loved and adored by another family.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

The fact that this woman has to go to such great lengths to defend what she has done makes me wonder if it is only to convince herself that it is the right thing to do. She sure has not convinced me. I don't judge her, I pity her and those like her who feel that like everything else in this society problems can be made to go away with a pill or "surgical procedures".

[RedMonqey]

If someone wants to think I'm a sinful bitch, I don't give a damn," she said.

"I have no regrets," she says.

"One of the reasons I was not going to have a child was the memory of my mother, who gave up her very intelligent life to raise three children. I was not willing to give up my life to have children."

"Abortion is certainly an important way of freeing the world of an unwanted human being," she added.

"To continue to give birth under such bad circumstances is a sin in itself. No one should be born that way,

These were unwanted pregnancies with casual lovers; she felt no remorse about aborting them.

....she didn't want a "shotgun wedding" or the appearance of one, even though he was prepared to have the child and marry her. ...

"On the other hand, I was so glad I had the opportunity to have the abortion safely and legally. ...


"I didn't consider it sinful," she says matter-of-factly. "It was my body, and I do what I please with my body."


I can't help but think of what cold selfish, heartless( I'm running out of adjectives) b*tches these women must be.


Maybe they are right.

They should never have children or reproduce in any manner....

[Lorianne]

How dreadfully sad.

[JoJo Gunn]

"Abortion is certainly an important way of freeing the world of an unwanted human being...."

Which is why I say never turn your back on a Leftist.

NEVER!

[IrishCatholic]

How incredibly vile.

"I'm certain my life would be very different if I hadn't been able to have that abortion at 23"
Why yes, the life you murdered might be a person you would have spent your life loving and cherishing instead. You might have grown up and stopped thinking only about yourself.
When you are old. When you are alone or your other children bring their children, will the ghost of what might have been tough your soul?
To promote the death of innocents purely by labeling it a 'choice' or a 'right' changes nothing. The only way, ONLY way that abortion makes any sense is if we are all just killer monkeys with no more worth than any other animal. We have no spirit, no soul, no reason for life. If this is so then there are no rules. Kill others or yourself. Eat your neighbor, rape his wife steal his dog, use his Bible for rolling papers. It's all OK. Because once you sign on to there is no right and wrong, no God, no soul, no beauty that is a baby in the womb, then anything goes. Nothing has more meaning than the sensations you feel. In other words, you are a sociopath.
Of course, I feel strongly about this. But I actually think that abortion is the greatest crime of all time.

[RugerM77]

And this is an argument for abortion?

>>>>One of Margaret's abortions turned septic because the placenta remained inside her uterus. "I bled and bled and bled and bled," she recalls. "I had extremely high fever and bone-wracking chills. The thing is, you get euphoric. I was in bed and I was thinking of the old Romans who would get into the bathtub and open their veins."

After Margaret had a convulsion, her roommate went in search of further medical help. "She got a professor of gynecology, who was my lover too, and she hustled him over -- he was not the father. He induced the placenta, and when I delivered the placenta, the bleeding stopped."

The abortion that bothers her most was the one she had after sleeping with her husband before they got married. It was in Philadelphia in the early 1950s. He was an intern at Taylor Hospital where she was a resident. They planned to get married, she didn't want a "shotgun wedding" or the appearance of one, even though he was prepared to have the child and marry her. He performed the abortion. For some reason it didn't take. She was in a quandary -- whether to let a potentially damaged fetus come to term or try aborting again. She chose the latter course and aborted the fetus, a boy, at four months.<<<<<<

[montag813]

"Abortion is certainly an important way of freeing the world of an unwanted human being," she added. "To continue to give birth under such bad circumstances is a sin in itself. No one should be born that way, without the love and desire of their parents."

What a heartbreakingly selfish statement. This is surely one of the most disgusting articles I have ever read.

[cupcakes]

Horrifying! Women's History Month? As a woman, I want no part of these women and their history. There are women who make this choice, I do not agree with it, but they do. It takes it to the level of a sickness though when a woman is not only flaunting the fact that she did not adequately protect her uterus from a pregnancy and child she did not want, but that she would be so cavelier about having to destroy a life for her own irresponsibility. If someone gets an abortion it is with a heavy heart, reverence, and disappointment and certainly not something to flaunt as normal and ok. There should be shame, if not for the fact they are killing an infant which is bad enough, but that they didn't do enough to protect themselves from an outcome they did not want.
What is outrageously sick is I believe some of these misfits might even get pregnant on purpose to be able to abort a living human being so they can say they did it too sister!

[Hillarys nightmare]

I didn't bother to read this story, because I become enraged at any woman who gets "prone", winds up pregnant, and then kills the child for the sake of her "convenience", and then concocts a reason to justify HER killing of an unborn child?!

As for all the sob stories of justification,: go see if Oprah is interested! For every one of these over the top, sad sack, "I had to do it for the better interest of myself" stories, there are perhaps a thousand stories of guilt ridden women who realize that what they did was wrong and admit it in true sorrow!
But they seldom ever get invited on the TV circuit, because their story is not supportive of the Pro-Abortion gang.
These self absorbed women don't deserve a soap box to stand on.

[Cronos]

"Abortion is certainly an important way of freeing the world of an unwanted human being," she added. "To continue to give birth under such bad circumstances is a sin in itself. No one should be born that way, without the love and desire of their parents." wonder if she ever heard of adoption of even more important -- of self-control

[KantianBurke]

Alice divorced her first husband in 1932. She remarried my great-uncle, John Thorpe, some years later. They never had children.

You've got 3 guesses as to why and the first two don't count.

[N. Theknow]

When one of my wife's cousins was pregnant without benefit of a husband and contemplating abortion, I wrote her a lengthy letter imploring her not to follow through with it.

Unfortunately she did.

I saw her several years later when she was married. A different man. She and he have two children and I remarked how beautiful they were. She thanked me for the compliment and then fell very silent. She said she is still haunted by a dream of the aborted child. It meets her when she dies and takes her by the hand. It scares her awake every time.