Posted on 08/06/2014 5:05:27 AM PDT by wagglebee
Jenny Kutner, who is the Assistant Editor of the pro-abortion website, Salon.com, announced in an August 1st article that she was having an abortion this past weekend. In the article, Kutner explains how she took measures to prevent pregnancy by placing a copper IUD in her uterus one year ago.
She writes, “I don’t want to have an abortion, which is why I got an IUD — to give myself a 99 percent chance of not having to consider the procedure for a decade, or ever. (Clearly the IUD failed, so I guess I’m the 1 percent.) What I definitely, definitely don’t want, immeasurably more than I don’t want to have an abortion, is to be pregnant or have a child. So I’m not going to. At least, not right now. ”
Then she continues by thanking her lucky stars that she no longer lives in her hometown of Texas because in New York she is trusted to make her own decision. “There are no mandated ultrasounds in New York; no condescending scripts for the doctors to read; no increasing shortage of clinics because of legal entrapments that endanger women’s health,” Kutner said.
However, she completely avoids the core of pro-life ideology, which is that the unborn child temporarily housed in a women’s body is a living person, just like the rest of us. The pro-life movement’s opposition to abortion has nothing to do with failing to trust women to make their own decisions. Rather, it is about the reality that abortion is always the wrong decision, no matter the circumstances of a woman’s pregnancy.
Ultimately, pro-life ideology is based on biology, not on semantics or a desire to remove women’s rights. It centers on the fact that an unborn baby has a separate body, separate genetic makeup, and a separate heartbeat that its mother. The growing human is very similar to you and me, and now because of advances in ultrasound technology, we can watch the child smile, yawn, stretch, suck its thumb, and even smile.
The reasonable conclusion to come to after surveying these facts is that these tiny humans should be given the same rights and protections as the rest of society. But instead of discussing any of this in her article, Kutner sticks with words like “women’s health” and “entitlement” to clarify why her decision is her “right “as an American citizen.
She concludes by saying, “I don’t know what comes next, how or if this will change who I am. Maybe it will, maybe it won’t. I can’t know that now. It isn’t Saturday yet.”
One thing is certain, whether Kutner realizes it or not, her life will never be the same. Yes, she walked into a New York Planned Parenthood on Saturday pregnant, and yes, on Sunday she was no longer pregnant; but one does not walk away from a decision like that unaffected. In a matter of seconds, her baby will be ripped to shreds, and Kutner will forever be the mother of a dead baby. And with all my heart, I pray that maybe she reconsidered her decision.
We all die, but we don’t all commit murder.
So, whether a person is murdered in utero or dies after a long life, you have "no qualms."
The fact that some people die at ten, some people die at 90, and others die at 32 is not an issue for me that I am going to concern myself with. I am above ground today, and consider it 'being lucky'..nothing more
So, the 56 MILLION Americans murdered in abortuaries were just "unlucky"?
I find it interesting you used Hitler in your original post....do you think the world would have been better off if Hitler's mom offed him in the womb 90+ years ago?
A pro-death troll asked me the same question last week, my hunch is that the United States, England and France would have had to fight a much more powerful Stalin.
Now, you have made your opinion known in your original post, and now I have followed up with my retort.
Indeed you have, you have "no qualms" with abortion.
I know that you will not care to agree with my opinion, as I do not with yours.
However, it has been reiterated more times than I can recall that Free Republic is a PRO-LIFE forum. Where does this leave you?
Read my tagline [Your opinion. The fact that you have one does not mean that I have to capitulate to it...]...it's more than just a bunch of words to me.
I quite understand that you, like many others in the moral relativism pro-death crowd, consider opinions superior to right and wrong.
I agree. The weeds got pretty thick during Wagglebee's absence. It's very good to have him back.
bump
bump!
I'm going as fast as I can! :-)
:)
Well kick your weedeater into overdrive!
I guess someone got fedupwithhim.
What in the world is going on lately with these Freepers having no problem with abortion?
What if the Salon assistant decided against abortion and gave the baby up for adoption instead? What if that baby was raised by Christian parents and grew up to become the next Bill Graham, helping to bring countless souls to Christ?
Regardless, murder can’t be justified.
“You could try reading the actual article.”
I went and read the whole stupid article. Although I have to admit that my eyes glazed over a couple of times, other than mentioning his existence, nothing much about him.
Libertarians have been getting bolder with expressing their true beliefs on here. The fact that many of them have been FReepers for a decade or more indicates that they have always felt this way.
They've all decided that the baby will grow up to be a "monster." In their eyes, we have 56 million fewer Hitlers in America.
He seems a decent sort.
Not exactly pro life, by the sound of it - but he was there for her the whole time. To me, that counts for a lot. Though she does never say if he got a word in on what happened to the little person who was half him.
I’ll give you even odds that they are split up within the year. Men have choice too.
You say you don't want a baby now. That you're not ready. I would challenge you with this: what if this is your ONLY chance to have a child? What if the procedure damages your body or you otherwise become infertile? What will you think of it then?
lol
Leftists do not “informed” decisions on baby killing.
“I’ll give you even odds that they are split up within the year. Men have choice too.”
Concur. Guys think about a woman’s character eventually.
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