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
Well, yes, let’s grab defeat from the jaws of victory.
I don't get your point. How is it a positive that these people are now *bragging* about killing humans instead of "clumps of cells"?
It would be a positive if admitting it caused them to step back and reexamine their actions. That's not is happening here.
It’s beginning to happen, allow yourself to see it.
So go pick out someone on line at planned parenthood and die for the baby they are about to abort.
Betcha anything she won’t.
Also, as others have pointed out up thread, it seems as though she isn’t bragging as much as she is attempting to rationalize.
I predict that this woman is not going to be an abortion supporter much longer.
There are very few among us who can rationalize killing babies.
These people really are insane, but that won't help them when they stand before God.
I would have died for my daughters right to have an abortion.
However, I put no value my daughters right to live in the first place so she had to die for MY right to have an abortion.
That line of reasoning is so twisted it's incomprehensible
Well, the stats disagree with your statement.
There have more than 55,000,000 murders of the unborn since 1973. Granted there are many that are serial killers, still, that's not exactly a "few".
Seems to me she’s slowly going insane over the conflict between her fixed allegiance to the liberal party line and the deep regret for what she’s done.
No, the stats don’t disprove my assertion.
My assertion is that very few people can rationalize killing babies.
The people you are referring to are simply ‘removing a fetus’, or some such. Not killing a baby.
That’s why what this woman has proclaimed is such a milestone.
She has made the leap, one that her side will still deny as long as they can, but the gap has now been bridged. It’s killing a baby.
I know it’s hard, almost impossible, to accept a victory, especially a big one, but I insist.
If she really was the type to make sacrifices, she would have had the child.
I do see what you are saying. Although as regards "rationalizing", they've been doing that from the beginning. I just can't (yet) see that as a step forward.
There are very few among us who can rationalize killing babies.
I don't agree. And I will go a step further. There are a hell of a lot who can & do rationalize killing those of any age. Not just unborn babies. The eugenics orientation of liberal thinking includes abortions, normalizing of killing during post partum depression, euthanizing of severely disabled and elderly. Their disrespect for life goes a lot further than abortion.
“I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.” - Ronald Reagan
Its official; we’re all the way through the looking glass.
Thank you for the YouTube link, but I wouldn’t watch this creepy bitch if she sent me a $1000 check to do so.
What she said in her “poetry” was the insane ramblings of a horrible person who did a horrible thing, and is
trying to convince herself by telling the world that she is all right with it.
She is not. She will never be all right with having murdered another human being, her own flesh and blood,
who should have been protected, not slaughtered for her “mother’s” convenience because she “came at the
wrong time.”
Despicable.
The people you are referring to are simply ‘removing a fetus’, or some such. Not killing a baby.
Uh...you don't seem to understand that your statement IS the rationalization.
How do you reach these people? I think maybe the first step is convincing them that God forgives everything. There’s a reason why John the Baptist came first: you can’t believe in something as new and as true as the word unless you first feel that you can be forgiven.
Person A kills person B. A admits it.
A says, I would have supported B’s right
to kill me, but I got him first.
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