Posted on 02/10/2019 7:20:37 AM PST by gattaca
I spent the first half of 2015 pregnant and then I had a “late-term abortion.” My husband and I decided early that year to try to start a family. I succeeded almost immediately in getting pregnant. There was obviously a healthy mix of excitement and terror. While it happened a little quicker than we anticipated, we wanted our baby.
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‘They killed their baby because it would have a birth defect.’
standard practice in uncivilized cultures...polynesians were notorious for it as the writings of Captain Cook note...
‘When will God visit his vengeance on us? Are we prepared?’
who knows...? maybe in another 45 years and 60 million plus dead babies...
I think with spina bifida, it depends on the degree and location of it which determines the impact on a person’s abilities.
I’ve never been in the position the couple in the article were in, so it’s very hard to say what one would do. I do know that making serious decisions in the heat of mega distress tends to lack wisdom. It’s an emotional decision as opposed to a well thought out logical decision.
Not being in that position, it’s very easy for me to think...what would a pediartic neuro surgeon think of this problem? I like to think getting a second opinion would be my first step of action. I am a “let’s fix it” kind of person, but then this couple in the article isn’t me.
Sometimes this disorder is fixable, sometimes not. If the child is going to die anyway, what’s a few months of waiting? It’s easier to push out a bigger baby than a smaller one. Who knows what changes may occur as the baby grows? Maybe as the baby grows, it can be seen better so maybe its able to be reduced. That high up on the neck is rather iffy though, because everything below that point depends on those nerves not being compeomised which includes the ability to swallow and breath.
There’s no way one can say this couple is evil or selfish. I’m thinking they were pushed pretty hard when they were in an extremely vulnarable situation. I don’t think they were counseled reasonably with all options placed before them. They made the decision to abort, too quickly for them to have been presented with other options.
The pressure to abort can be horribly intense, and I mean INTENSE! Doctors will even refuse to see you, or care for the baby if they feel tje risk is too high.
With that said, It was disturbing that it was an ad for planned parenthood. PP isn’t the only outfit that does abortions, yet it was the only outfit listed as a reference. There is no suggestion that someone else in a similar situatiion might want to seek other options with a reference for support listed for that choice.
Therefore, tje entire article could easily be a damndable deception and lie.
Birth defect?
That's merely Evolution working like it is supposed to!
While it happened a little quicker than we anticipated, we wanted our baby.
Then what? Then they didn't? Or she didn't? HuffPo Partisan Media Shill continues to push PuffHo into irrelevance and extinction.
In all but a few instances, I wish abortion caused irreversible sterilization.
It’s Huffpoo. Not going to follow the link
Have a friend born with spina bifida. She walks did cheering. Had 4 kids by c section
Her mother also had it. It runs in families. Many diff degrees.
There are many accounts of parents being told horrific outcomes for their baby’s birth.....only to find, when they decide to proceed, a healthy baby is born.
On the other hand, I was humbled to be present when a couple I knew well were told their child would not live long after birth.....
....but they proceeded to let this birth happen and lovingly held their child until her last breath.....( btw, these were Christian parents)
>>I don’t believe the left will ever embrace “gender-selective abortion”
“Good reproductive health policy starts with credible research”
“Guttmacher-Lancet Commission proposes a bold, new agenda for sexual and reproductive health and rights.”
AS OF FEBRUARY 1, 2019
STATE LAWS AND POLICIES
Abortion Bans in Cases of Sex or Race Selection or Genetic Anomaly
Background
State legislatures are adopting numerous abortion restrictions targeting very specific pregnancy conditions and populations of women. In recent years, members of Congress have introduced federal legislation that would prohibit abortions based on the sex or race of the fetus.
Sex-selective abortions—that is, abortions performed because of the predicted sex of the fetus—occur most frequently where there is a strong gender bias that manifests in a preference for sons. In some countries, such as those in East and South Asia, the widespread practice of sex selection has resulted in skewed sex ratios with a higher number of boys than girls at birth. In contrast, in the United States, there is limited and inconclusive evidence that immigrants from these areas—or anywhere else—are obtaining sex-selective abortions in this country. Bans on sex-selective abortions place a burden on providers, who are forced to not only question all women’s reasons for seeking an abortion, but to also second-guess and stigmatize Asian-American women and communities. While disguised as a means to eliminate gender discrimination, these laws make abortion less accessible; they do not prohibit other sex selection methods, such as sperm sorting or preimplantation genetic diagnostics.
Arizona enacted legislation that prohibits a woman from aborting her fetus due to race, thereby focusing on the race of the woman having an abortion and placing the provider in a position of having to question her motivations...
So to ban the practice “stigmatizes” women of misogynist cultures.
The Left is okay with killing babies because they are the wrong sex or have birth defects. Ever’ chil’e a wanted chil’e.
Abortion is never clinically appropriate. Life is not ours to end.
I wish the same for ADC and WIC!
(Well; at least “We’ll pay for your FIRST ‘mistake’, but not any others!’)
Interesting; how could they possibly enforce this?
Nice “story.”
Of course, HIPAA provides bullet-proof cover for the possibility that this never happened, at least not as she presents it. She can say anything she wants. No one can verify it. No one dare.
She “cried for weeks.”
Any woman this traumatized wouldn’t be willing to use her experience as a propaganda piece for a leftist cause. Like most leftists, she is lying through her teeth.
We are going to have to learn to fight the enemy on their own turf sooner or later. They certainly don’t respect conservative sites by staying away.
Go there and make a good argument. All they can do is demonstrate their acrid hatred and stupidity for the world to see.
Not true— the way our laws originally handled abortion, instead of it becoming birth control or sex selection or “inconvenient pregnancy” or whatever..... WAS limited, extremely limited, and it should remain so. With modern diagnostics it should be able to be determined quite early and not be a source of income to the abortion industry (and spare parts, stem cell ghouls etc.).
For example— this horrific case in FL. The man should be put to death for this appalling crime, even as the family decided to adopt the rapist’s spawn from a defenseless mental defective.. appalling— especially the inability to determine if there was “consent”. Because, it WAS rape:
“A caregiver at a Central Florida facility for people with disabilities has been accused of impregnating a resident who gave birth in 2015.
Authorities say 58-year-old Willie Shorter of Rockledge, in Brevard County, was arrested Wednesday on a charge of lewd and lascivious battery on a disabled person.
An arrest affidavit says Shorter helped care for adult clients at a facility operated by Bridges in Rockledge.
Staff members in 2015 discovered the female client was pregnant. Police say in the affidavit that the woman has the mental capacity of a small child. The baby was born a few months later and adopted by the woman’s family.
Rockledge Deputy Police Chief Donna Seyferth told Florida Today that several factors slowed down the investigation, including the client’s disability and the slow pace of DNA testing.....” Central Florida, last week Orlando Sentinel.
I am talking about moral law not US law. Yes the case in Florida was horrific. Does it really make things better to kill the innocent party? I fail to see how that helps the situation. In addition ask understand it they didn’t discover the pregnancy until the woman was labor. Should the strangle the newborn just to make things right? How would that help? Again, innocent life is not ours to end.
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