Posted on 11/20/2014 12:33:26 PM PST by wagglebee
Jessica Valenti, the radical founder of Feministing and a NARAL board member, has taken to the U.K. Guardian’s U.S. news site to boast about the elective abortion she had when she was in her 20s, and called on other women to do the same.
Valenti wrote the piece to coincide with the launch of the “1 in 3 Abortion Speakout,” which was being live streamed from 1 P.M. to 9 P.M. EST Thursday afternoon from Washington D.C.’s NBC Studios, and was scheduled to feature over 100 pro-abortion speakers – including Valenti, Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards, Daily Show co-creator Lizz Winstead, and Congressman Mike Quigley (D-IL) – seeking to “destigmatize” and “normalize” abortion.
The event’s name was chosen as a nod to the sobering statistic that one out of every three American women have an abortion during their lifetimes. Live audiences on at least 20 college campuses nationwide were expected to tune in at “watch parties” and strategize ways to spread the pro-abortion message.
Valenti, who admits to having had two abortions, wrote: “I’ve never before spoken publicly about my first abortion – not because I was ashamed, but because it truly didn’t have that tremendous of an impact on my life.”
According to Valenti, she was dating a man she didn’t love when she became pregnant with his baby, and knew immediately that she would abort the child. She says she has “no regrets” about her decision. “If anything, being able to have that abortion made my life better,” she wrote. “I was able to publish my first book, meet my now-husband, cultivate the life that I’m living and build the family that I love.”
“Maybe you think that’s callous,” Valenti added. But she asserted that her story is by far the most common among women who choose abortion.
“The truth is that, despite the abortion stories that often dominate the public pro-choice narrative – the wanted pregnancies that must end because of health concerns or severe fetal abnormalities – most people who end their pregnancies do it for the same reason I did that first time in my 20s: Some women just don’t want to be pregnant – and there’s nothing wrong with that,” Valenti wrote. “I don’t owe anyone an explanation over why I had my abortions, but, as the conservative movement continues to strip women of their rights and humanity, I believe that those of us who can speak, should. Because for too many women, the consequences are just not worth it.”
“It’s time to end … the ‘awfulization’ of abortion, because it is a normal part of many women’s reproductive lives,” Valenti added.
Valenti’s words echoed those of another pro-abortion writer, Jessica Grose, who wrote a piece called “Enough With the Grueling, Wrenching, 'I Had an Abortion' Essays” last summer, criticizing women who shared their painful experiences with abortion.
“A lot of women have abortions and don’t look back. A lot of women don’t want a baby, and they don’t care whether the fetus is viable or how much money is in their bank account. Where are their essays?” Grose asked in her essay.
Grose said she wanted to see more “blithe and unapologetic” stories of women who chose abortion for purely selfish reasons and had no regrets afterward.
“First-person abortion stories in major publications are almost always about ‘appropriate’ abortions. Shrouded in mournful tones, regretting the baby that couldn’t be, reflecting on that upsetting choice,” Grose wrote. “But this is such a narrow way of looking at an experience that a third of women in America have.”
“Most people who get abortions aren’t teenagers or terminating unviable babies,” Grose added. “Six in 10 women who get abortions are already mothers, and 3 in 10 women have two or more children. The abortion rate is highest among women in their 20s. And there is a range of emotions that women feel when they’re getting what is essentially a medical procedure. Some feel relief, some feel nothing, others even feel joy.”
Writer Jessica DeBalzo took it a step further in her own essay for pro-abortion website RH Reality Check, proclaiming, “I love abortion. I don’t accept it. I don’t view it as a necessary evil. I embrace it.”
“[W]e must avoid stigmatizing [abortion] in any way,” argued DeBalzo. “No woman benefits from even the vaguest insinuation that abortion is an immoral or objectionable option. … Terminating a pregnancy is not an unethical act, yet suggesting that abortion should be rare implies that there is something undesirable about having one.”
“Rather than trying to cozy up to the forced-birth camp, women who value their freedom should be proud to say that they like abortion,” DebLazo added. “In fact, they should venerate it whole-heartedly.”
To us the miracle of life is a wondrous and precious thing.
To people like this it is an irritant like a puss filled zit or a cyst, to be squeezed and scrapped away before it interferes with their self centered existence.
Could these monstrous women be more sick and twisted if they tried?
Abortion is murder of a human being created by God. Someday, they
will find out just exactly what that means. The lucky ones will realize
what they have done while they still have time to beg God’s forgive-
ness and save their immortal souls. Others will not... Pray for those
who will never admit that they did wrong to murder their child/ren.
In which case I like Rush Limbaugh’s conundrum: What if they did find a “gay gene?” Would it be OK for parents to abort a child if they knew it had the “gay gene?”
Of course, I don’t believe there is such a thing. Homos propagate themselves though recruitment of young boys, not by birth.
And maybe someone who shouldn't be a mother? Sort of a Catch-22 there. Given that it is quite likely the woman having an abortion is also a Liberal, I am conflicted as to whether this should bother me.
“These people are truly evil.”
To call them “evil” implies there is some moral standard somewhere, and they are willfully defying it. Pond scum has a more developed sense of moral imperatives. After all, the DNA of pond scum is entirely dedicated to the concept that reproduction must take place, not fettered by self-imposed limitations.
Utter abnegation of any moral standard whatsoever.
She was blond. And quite pretty, too.
It deals with a young woman who has saved herself for marriage. Then one day she visits the clinic gynecologist, and due to a mix-up is artificially inseminated. One lady went in to be artificially inseminated, and the young virgin girl went in for a pap smear. Sadly, the physician got them mixed up.
Jane the Virgin is the name of the program. Jane winds up pregnant even though she's never had sex.
How this program deals with Jane and her relationships affected by this situation, is an interesting ride.
There is respect for the child immediately inside Jane. She doesn't consider abortion, or if she does it's only momentary.
You can watch the show online: Show Page Link
The quality of the video is top notch.
Please scroll down to pick episode one and watch the series in the proper order.
It's a cleverly done program, with plenty of humor. It is somewhat of a twisted tail, some off-color situations arise, but generally it's tamely so in all but one instance. A person winds up dead, with an ice sculpture sticking through his chest.
DATING
Disrobing
And
Thrusting
INto
Genitals
Forgot to mention that this program is also available on Hulu.
Didn't you get the memo that sex on the first date is the "new 'normal'"?
Well the only thing I can control is that whatever else, I won’t be the father. For many reasons, most significantly that I am already married and too old for that sort of thing.
But even in my younger days, a woman with her type of attitude is someone I would have avoided. And did on several occasions.
Come think of it
This so called LADY shouldn’t never be a Mom
The left has no moral qualms about murdering when busily building their perfect worlds. The dead are just those who happened to be inconvenient, in one way or another, and had to be disposed of.
Nothing personal, you understand.
You know that on Spanish soap right
I used to watch couple years ago on Telemundo it was good
They play with plotline a little a bit on American version of that show Jane the Virgin
Really?
Exhibit #1 “Mary, Mother if Jesus”...
Worked very well for her until she offered her assent to Gabriel's message.
And her assent made all that happened consensual.
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/apr/24/feminist-wedding-jessica-valenti
This sow needs to keep her disgusting legs together.
I did not know that, but it doesn’t surprise me.
I love the dialogue the announcer spews. It’s very clever.
There are also timely clever things taking place on the screen, such as text, or Jane’s heart glowing visibly.
It’s a great show.
Thanks for mentioning that. Perhaps I’ll check that out too. I don’t mind reading sub-titles.
The left has no qualms about murdering the innocent and sparing the murderer.
I have, on several occasions, asked a liberal to explain the logic of that position and have yet to receive a coherent answer.
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