Here's someone from mythology/art of which I'm reminded:
I looked at Peter and asked the doctor: ''Is it possible to get rid of one of them? Or two of them?'' The obstetrician wasn't an expert in selective reduction, but she knew that with a shot of potassium chloride you could eliminate one or more.
Having felt physically fine up to this point, I got on the subway afterward, and all of a sudden, I felt ill. I didn't want to eat anything. What I was going through seemed like a very unnatural experience. On the subway, Peter asked, ''Shouldn't we consider having triplets?'' And I had this adverse reaction: ''This is why they say it's the woman's choice, because you think I could just carry triplets. That's easy for you to say, but I'd have to give up my life.'' Not only would I have to be on bed rest at 20 weeks, I wouldn't be able to fly after 15. I was already at eight weeks. When I found out about the triplets, I felt like: It's not the back of a pickup at 16, but now I'm going to have to move to Staten Island. I'll never leave my house because I'll have to care for these children. I'll have to start shopping only at Costco and buying big jars of mayonnaise. Even in my moments of thinking about having three, I don't think that deep down I was ever considering it.
In a sane world, this couple and the Ob/Gyn would now be in jail for murder. We obviously live in a VERY sick world.
May God have Mercy on them.
selective reduction???
sons of bitches!!
Here's someone from mythology/art of which I'm reminded:
Well sh*t. Why does this woman even want ONE child? For all the money she probably spent being on the pill all those years, she could have had her tubes tied and avoided all this "trauma".
Idiots like her don't want to have families; they want to accessorize. She needs to go buy a funky handbag instead.
This sounds just like tapes that police officers make of someone before they arrest them for attempting to hire a hit man.
I grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, later called the East Village. I was poor and I hated it.
I also lived on Staten Island for a while, which is far from the stereotypical suburbia she imagines. I was poor then too, but I was making a living and I worked in Manhattan. And it isn't pickup truck country either, it's New York City.
She should have stayed on the pill. Even one kid will be too much of a strain when he stops being cute.
The mind boggles.
There's so much I could say about this, it's easier not to say anything. Wow.
She sounds perfectly reasonable to me. She can't care for three by herself and she knew her body couldn't handle three either. What if her boyfriend takes off after she had the three because it was too much stress or worse dies. He obviously didn't want to put her worries at ease with marriage or at least guarantee financial security just in case something happens. It happens all the time and she would have to do it all on her own. She only wanted one baby because that's all she could handle. Why would you purposefully create three babies when you only want one?
So my question is Did she get fixed so she couldn't murder anymore children for her convenience?
Ill bet not !
I am almost speechless. People wonder who could have supported the Nazis. Easy, it's people like her.
Very disturbing.
Recall the false propaganda applied to our military by the libs: baby killer! Who are the real baby killers? 45 million and counting. What a cold hearted murderous evil person.
Also:
If abortion were connected to actual women--people like my friend Amy Richards, who had an abortion at 18 and a selective reduction last year when she found she was pregnant with triplets, or Nancy Flynn, who was a single mom finishing her BA at Cornell when she had an abortion and who told me she would "never have been able to have the rich life I've had and help my son as much as I have if I'd been the single mother of two children"--perhaps the mounting restrictions wouldn't pass so handily. To paraphrase the late poet Muriel Rukeyser: What if women told the truth about their abortions? Even if the world didn't split open, this paralyzing issue might.
From here. A letter about I am not sorry.com
amy richards
When Amy Richard s graduated from Barnard College in 1992, she did not know that her summer project would be the beginning of her career as a feminist activist, writer, and organizer. Amy expected to use her degree in Art History to work in a museum or gallery. Instead, after she organized Freedom Summer ’92, a cross-country voter registration drive, Amy went on to co-found the Third Wave Foundation, a national organization for young feminist activists between the ages of 15 and 30.
For a decade, Amy led Third Wave as it grew from a small grassroots organization into a national institution. At Third Wave, Amy created and sustained the organization’s program areas—grant-making, public education campaigns and a national membership—and initiated projects such as "I Spy Sexism," a public education and postcard campaign encouraging people to take action on the injustices that they witness every day, and "Why Vote?," a series of panel discussions on funding for the arts, education, reproductive rights, and affirmative action. Through this leadership, Amy became a spokesperson and leading voice for young feminist issues. This launched her on the lecturing circuit and brought her invitations to appear in videos, books and media interviews offering her perspective on current events and especially youth and feminist culture. Amy has appeared in a range of media venues including Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor, Oprah, Talk of the Nation, New York One and CNN. Amy was publicly distinguished as a leader in 1995 when Who Cares magazine chose her as one of twenty-five Young Visionaries. She has gone on to win accolades from Ms. magazine, which profiled her in "21 for the 21st: Leaders for the Next Century,” Women’s Enews, which in 2003 named her one of their “Leaders for the 21st Century,” and the American Association of University Women, which recently chose her as a 2004 Woman of Distinction.
As Amy moves into her thirties and away from her commitment to Third Wave, she makes her living as a lecturer, writer and consultant. Amy was the interim director for Twilight: Los Angeles, a film by Anna Deavere Smith, where she oversaw a national educational program that addressed race in America . She has also consulted to Scenarios USA on the distribution of their teen educational videos, to Gloria Stein em on her writing and political commitments, and to the Columbia School of Public Health on the long-term negative health consequences of welfare reform. Amy is also the voice behind Ask Amy, the online advice column she launched at feminist.com in 1995.
Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future, Amy’s first book, which she co-authored with Jennifer Baumgardner, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in October 2000. Amy and Jennifer just completed their second book, Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism, and together they also created Soapbox, a lecture agency for “speakers who speak out.” Amy’s writings have also appeared in The Nation, The LA Times, Bust, Ms. and numerous anthologies, including Listen Up, Body Outlaws and Catching A Wave. Insight Guides recently hired Amy to write a shopping guide toNew York City . She is also very involved with the organizations on whose boards and advisory committees she serves, Third Wave, Ms. Magazine, Choice USA, the Sadie Nash Leadership Program, feminist.com and Planned Parenthood of New York City.
Ms. Richards and her friend Baumgardner are radical feminists. I feel sorry for the father. I bet he doesn't know how badly he is screwed up.
How fitting and heartless - shot through the heart.
There are a lot more complications when a woman carries multiples.
And apparently no complications to this specialist's 'selection'. Oh, wait, the would-be baby. I guess it didn't suffer from complications - it was the complication. How utterly Nazi.
I, I, I, me, me, me. What about me? I won't be able to fly! Sheesh!
I also am impressed with the riot act she reads her boyfriend - I can't imagine a better reason to hightail it out of that relationship. He has been given his warning - I give this married relationship a couple of years before they discover their 'irreconcilable differences.'
The boyfriend/father should grow a pair and find a real woman to warm his bed.
She has no ides how lucky she was.
I thought this was going to be an article about China at first.
Let me see: she is unmarried, stops using birthcontrol, gets pregnant (but doesn't want to change her life) . . . so selectively kills two. I know you cannot force people be do the right thing but it is still sad to see how people think about the next generation.
This is the type of woman I meet on an everyday basis. Pretty much the major political issue for these women is "keep your rosaries off my ovaries, but please buy me a $600 pair of Manolo Blahniks."
Totally and utterly nauseating.