Even Dr. Mengele took the young girls calmly, soothingly...
Posted on 09/10/2004 9:58:41 AM PDT by WildReeling
Hollywood, CA (LifeNews.com) -- Actress Ellen Barkin, who stars in the film "Palindromes," startled those attending the Venice Film Festival this week by saying she would force her daughter to have an abortion.
"I am the mother of a 12 year old. If she was pregnant, I would take her kicking and screaming to have an abortion," Barkin said at a press conference Tuesday to publicize her new movie.
In the film, Barkin, who starred in "The Big Easy" and won an Emmy in 1997 for her role in "Before Women Had Wings," plays the mother of a teenager girl who is forced by her parents to have an abortion.
The heroine, 12 year-old Aviva, wants to be a mother. After a neighbor impregnates her, Aviva's mother (Barkin) insists on the abortion.
Aviva runs away from home and stays with a loving Christian woman, Mama Sunshine, who takes care of the adolescent and protects her unborn child.
Pro-life groups are already up in arms about the movie Palindromes, with its images of dead unborn babies in medical pans and its distorted portrait of those who oppose abortion as violent extremists.
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It is my reality and it is hell. My mother forced me into an abortion 30 years ago. I ran away from home and did not go back for over 20 years and only then because my father was slowly dying of a Parkinson's-like disease (PSP), he died 3 years ago. My life was a living hell because of the abortion, I lost 4 other children due to miscarriages and almost lost my only daughter because I was so screwed up inside, not to mention the emotional aspect. I had constant nightmares about dead babies chasing me. The hatred I felt for her was consuming me. I finally had to turn it over to the Lord and take comfort in the fact that she would have to deal with Him when her time came. She finally apologized for it just last year, we are trying to mend our relationship now.
I have no data on this, but I suspect that mothers strongly urge or force their teen daughters to have abortions more often than most of us suspect. Particularly when the pregnancy is in a "happy" family with a good image.
OK, that's good to hear. I'm not a doctor, and the subject of pregnancy doesn't normally enter my everyday life.
Yes, those ARE all specific prayer requests that will help the situation.
None of us really knows the dynamics of prayer - we just know that God tells us to pray, to pray often, and to be bold about it.
BTW - You have come a long way on the pro-life/abortion issue - I remember your comments on these threads from a few years ago - I see how your heart has softened. I am certain that you have been prayed for, and you've been keeping good company, too ; )
Because he says he does, and uses Oswald Chambers for morning meditation. (He also acts like he does, too - it's the humility with a swagger thing)).
God bless you.
That's nice that you say that, but I'm really pretty much the same person...I don't understand the abortion issue at all, and I certainly don't understand anything about being maternal. I agree with all, though, that it is murder.
By prayer helping the situation, I assume you mean that everyone will come to accept the new baby and love it as a family member?
For what it's worth, my best friend was in exactly that situation, although a bit older. When she was 14, she got pregnant, and her parents forced her to get an abortion. She was told that she would have the abortion, or she was to be kicked out, and disowned by her entire family. To say that she was damaged by he experience is a huge understatement. It's something that she thinks about nearly every day. Of course, as soon as she was old enough (16) she moved out and has been on her own ever since, with no contact with her family. And that's caused her plenty of problems as well, but that's another story.
Mark
If that is what you would pray for, sure, those are normal prayer requests.
And I'd add that God would grant us the wisdom and the strength to make the proper choices - to align our will with His.
She could abort her 12-year-old daughter and save herself the trouble. Isn't that just a "partial-birth abortion"?
The phrase "younger than 20" can mean a lot of things. I suspect the vast majority of women referred to here were between 16 and 19. Has anyone looked at very young girls and pregnancy specifically?
What a hellish thing to have to contemplate.
The mother of the pregnant woman isn't the only person who may coerce abortion. It may also be the boyfriend (Jennifer O'Neill's experience), father of the baby (Rae Carruth), father or sibling of the pregnant woman, and others. In short, anyone who doesn't want the "hassle" of the pregnancy OR the pregnant woman.
See the website of the Elliot Institute for lots of interesting and informative information about "choice"
www.afterabortion.org
America, this is what 31 years of "choice" has given this nation. May God have mercy on us all.
Bless you. Like I said, I can't even imagine.
But you can't go wrong in turning to the Lord. I'll keep you in my prayers.
That's all I could find. But if God designed the female body to give birth at that age, then giving birth should be a perfectly healthy activity.
If the baby was the product of rape or incest, OTOH, that's a different story.
What a hellish thing to have to contemplate.
Pregnancy itself or the relationship that brought the baby into the world?
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