Posted on 09/22/2014 8:40:21 AM PDT by wagglebee
What kind of mother asks her baby to die for her? And what kind of media outlet celebrates that?
To take the second question first, The Huffington Post is promoting a video featuring Scottish “poet” Leyla Josephine, celebrating her decision to abort her daughter. The video, “I Think She Was a She,” was uploaded to YouTube a month ago.
In the video Josephine, decked out in military camouflage, justifies herself in part by saying that she would have been willing to serve as a sacrifice to abortion just as she offered her daughter to the idol of “choice.”
“I would’ve supported her right to choose – to choose a life for herself, a path for herself. I would’ve died for that right like she died for mine,” she said.
In the next rhyming line, she addresses her unborn daughter: “I’m sorry, but you came at the wrong time.”
“I am not ashamed. I am not ashamed. I am not ashamed," she continues – a phrase she repeats a total of six times. She repeats the phrase "This is my body" three times. (She also takes the Lord's name in vain once.)
In the early part of the video, she describes her belief that her child was a girl and imagines a life where she had given birth to her daughter.
“I know she was a she,” she says. “I would have made sure that there was space on the walls to measure her height,” she adds. “I would have made sure I was a good mother.”
At one point she appears to describe the emotional aftermath of her choice as “a hollowness that feels full, a numbness that feels heavy.”
But she later calls the idea that her child was a girl or a boy “bull---t” and affirms, yet again, she is not ashamed.
This provokes a few observations:
1. If she knew her child's sex, she must have had a late-term abortion. Our gentle, healing restoration is needed in a world marred by so much aggression and anger in the name of political orthodoxy.
2. Fr. Frank Pavone has written, ”Did you ever realize that the same four words that were used by the Lord Jesus to save the world are also used by abortion advocates? 'This is My Body.'” To paraphrase him, he notes the difference. One, by surrendering His life on the Cross, gave life to the world. The abortion industry uses this phrase to impose its will on the bodies of separate, living human beings who have not harmed anyone.
3. The most chilling phrase in the video is her statement, “I would’ve supported her right to choose...I would’ve died for that right like she died for mine.”
First of all, her daughter did not die for the “right to choose.” Her daughter was not sacrificed for the inalienable “good” of keeping abortion-on-demand legal (and, in the UK, taxpayer-subsidized). Politicians are bribed to maintain it; no baby needs to die for it. Josephine's child died because HuffPo's hero of the moment chose not to carry the baby to term and place him/her in the hands of loving adoptive parents who would have cherished her baby – whether it was actually male, female, or intersex.
Josephine describes the emotions that actually led to the abortion only metaphorically – e.g., she compares the abortion to chopping down a cherry tree – but that angst is the root (so to speak) of the abortion, not the great and grand cause of assuring that other women have the right to go through the same soul-crushing grief.
That intimation that her daughter died for “choice” – that she offered her baby as a living sacrifice on the altar of abortion – confirms the darkest rhetoric of the pro-life movement: That for some in the movement, abortion is sometimes regarded as an idol.
And that raises one other, more universally held question: What kind of parent asks his son or daughter to die for the “right” to abortion? Parents are supposed to be the one who sacrificially care for their children, who forsake their own comfort, who do whatever is necessary – even die – to keep their children safe, healthy, and well. Josephine's blithe, “Sorry, but you came at the wrong time” sounds as hollow as a gangland assassin's apology to the family caught in the crossfire of a drive-by shooting. Abortion severs the love that God, or Mother Nature, or evolution, or whatever you choose to believe in placed within every pregnant woman to link the mother to her child.
The abortion lobby's rhetoric, which increasingly disregards the value of unborn life, is untethered by the bonds of human compassion, is fundamentally selfish and cold-blooded, and lacks a sense of humanity and brotherhood to the point of obliterating maternal love itself.
“Will a woman forget her child, so as not to have compassion upon the offspring of her womb?” God asks through the prophet Isaiah. “But if a woman should even forget these, yet I will not forget thee, saith the Lord.”
The pro-life movement exists precisely to set this upside-down order aright, to reinstate the natural love and compassion everyone should have for all of God's creation – most especially that between a mother and the innocent child she has helped create and fashion with her own DNA.
YouTube: Leyla Josephine I Think She Was A She
LIBs are mentally ill.
Yes.
Cold calculated, premeditated murder. She made an appointment with a murderer to kill her baby. She paid the murderer blood money. He murdered her baby. He disposed of the body.
Just as simple as that. And if anyone drove her to the abortuary, then he participated in the pre-planned murder. All three guilty of the premeditated murder of her baby.
And no one gets arrested. Incredible.
She also protests too much. There is hope for her. A truly coldhearted monster would not have given it a second thought but just gone on with her wonderful life.
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Exactly right.
See psychopath, also hamster logic!
This poet is screaming pain.
...absolutely she is...she is tormented within, and is spouting femspeak in an effort to live with herself...
...I think it highly likely that she does commit suicide in the near future...
These people will say anything to justify doing what they know was wrong
One of the first steps in changing the attitude of a Christian society is to make abortion, euthanasia and genocide not only possible, but a legal, palatable reality.
The idea of the ‘Right to Abortion’ regardless of the life of the unborn person is the first step.
Only a crazy person would decide that only through the rejection of a women's basic natural instinct and humanity can they become fully vested in society!
Since she’s admitted that she has no qualms about killing people to pursue her “own path”, where does she draw the line at murdering people who are in her way? Only babies? What about toddlers? The elderly? Who does she think matters too much to be off the list of people she would kill to pursue her own path?
Does this make sense to anyone on any level, even a "poetic" one? 'Cause I don't see it.
And she would "support" her right to choose? How, exactly would she do that? God, I just ate breakfast, too. Brunch, I suppose.
Kind of convenient that it happened to work out that way for the poet.
It’s easy to make such a statement when you know it’ll never happen. When push comes to shove, however, she wouldn’t want to die for anyone for any reason.
A truly coldhearted monster would not have given it a second thought but just gone on with her wonderful life.
...I know of a woman, who, after aborting her child, burbled happily ‘Good...now I can go to college...’
...she was completely devoid of any introspection concerning her act, which suggests to me a far greater selfishness than that of the bedeviled poetess...
yep.
where does she draw the line at murdering people who are in her way?
...in reality it all goes back to the bromide ‘out of sight, out of mind...’
...which is why ultrasounds should be required prior to abortions...
If abortion were banned tomorrow, I swear that the “right to choose” crowd would resort to human sacrifices out in the woods, or at the very least animal torture and mutilation. WTF is going through these peoples’ heads?
Are these people that nihilstic and self destructive? Or is there a gene that turns on in these people like some sort of self-destruct mechanism, their genome knowing that it is FUBAR, and cannot be allowed to reproduce?
The mother has conceded that a person died during the abortion.
That’s something no one on that side would have admitted only a few years ago.
As a mile marker, it’s huge.
Yes, it is huge, good point. But I'm thinking it's not a positive. More awful it is that they now openly admit it is a person that they glorify killing. No longer even caring to pretend. IMO, this illustrates the deepening of the depravity of these people.
Even for a screwed-up lefty murderer, it doesn’t make sense. It’s very easy to say “I would have supported her daughter’s choice” when she killed her before she could ever make a choice. How evil must someone be to admit that the person they were carrying was a person, to be the mother of that person, and to at least publicly, blithely say “I killed her because she would’ve interfered with my life”? Normal people wouldn’t kill a dog or cat for that reason, but she’s proud, this woman who would have been her daughter’s mother, that she killed her own daughter-her admitted daughter-for the mere sake of her own convenience.
That famous phrase about the banality of evil comes to mind.
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