Posted on 07/10/2013 7:38:35 PM PDT by Morgana
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 10, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A feminist writer for Slate has said that “pro-choice” women should stop apologizing for having abortions of convenience and express their joy at being free of responsibilities. Jessica Grose Jessica Grose
Jessica Grose wrote “Enough With the Grueling, Wrenching, 'I Had an Abortion' Essays” on Tuesday, critiquing a recent spate of articles defending abortions women had undertaken in difficult circumstances.
“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.
Grose, the former editor of the website Jezebel, saluted “blithe and unapologetic” stories of abortions for abortion's sake. She cited the words of the anonymous 23-year-old author of “What to Expect When You’re Aborting” as a perfect example of her preferred abortive autobiography:
By monday my hormones were a little wonky but in all i just felt like this parasitic creature that burrowed its way into me and fed of my energy, apetite, [sic] and joy was removed. And I had been restored.
“Humane essays aren’t going to change the entrenched anti-choicer.” Instead, they “push the rhetorical battle even further rightward,” she claimed.
Grose's tactic came one day after the New York Times carried Beth Matusoff Merfish piece on “My Mother's Abortion,” which Grose felt was unduly soft-spoken.
The Slate piece is the most recent but far from the first plea for post-abortive feminists to share tales of uplifting, empowering terminations.
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S.E. Smith at the website xoJane.com wrote that she chose to “wear my abortion on my sleeve” so other women would know, “If you had an abortion, you can rock on with your bad self.” She implored other women to follow her lead. Several have.
Jessica DelBalzo wrote that women should “venerate” abortion “wholeheartedly” in her essay, “I Love Abortion: Implying Otherwise Accomplishes Nothing for Women’s Rights” for the website RH Reality Check.
DelBalzo, an outspoken opponent of adoption, had previously expressed gratitude for her “euphoric” abortion experience in an essay entitled, “My Happy Abortion” for the same website.
Upon rising from the abortion table, “I unsuccessfully attempted to repress the huge grin that had developed on my face,” she wrote.
She concluded, “I regret but one thing: that by the time my daughter is in the position to need an abortion, factions of fanatical, misogynistic conservatives may have eliminated her right to choose.”
Just last month The New York Times carried a story by former Seattle City Council member Judy Nicastro, who wrote that she was “grateful” her abortion let her son die “in a warm and loving place.”
In April, a caller named “Karel” told Montreal-based talk show host Isabelle Maréchal that she had aborted her unborn child at 26 weeks for no good reason. “I don't regret it, to be honest with you,” she said.
Last July an anonymous woman named “Jane Young” posted pictures of her 2011 abortion on a website “to counter the perverse use of dead fetus images used by the anti-abortion movement.”
Perhaps drawing from such stories, “Dear Abby” advice columnist Jeanne Phillips responded to a letter by saying, “Ultimately, I am told, most women feel a sense of relief after an abortion.”
Yet the evidence continues to accumulate that abortion is anything but a cherished experience for most women.
For many, the guilt leads to a psychological breaking point. Numerous studies have confirmed a link between abortion, depression, and suicide. A team of Chinese researchers from Anhui Medical College found last year that post-abortive women were 49 percent more likely to experience depression.
A 2008 study by the University of Oslo concluded, “Young adult women who undergo induced abortion may be at increased risk for subsequent depression.”
In 2005, Finland’s National Research and Development Center for Welfare and Health (STAKES) studied the deaths of all women of reproductive age over a 13-year period (1987-2000). It found deaths from suicide, accidents and homicide are 248 percent higher in the year following an abortion, while women who had given birth in the past year had the lowest likelihood of death.
Ministries that help post-abortive women escape the cycle of depression and find peace and healing following the decision to end their child's life include the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, Operation Outcry, and Project Rachel.
Horrifying.
Moloch demands more. Always more.
Who would have sex with THAT?
...women should stop apologizing for having abortions of convenience and express their joy at being free of responsibilities.
Q: What could better justify murdering a baby than the joy of being free of responsibilities?
A: Maybe the delirious joy of destroying a human life?
Ye Gads. . . When I read that, in my mind it came with the tune of "If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands"
If you killed your baby and you're happy, let us know
If you killed your baby and you're happy, let us know
If you killed your baby and you're happy, you'll never have to change a nappy
If you killed your baby and you're happy, let us know!
Like:
I was pregnant with triplets, but did not know it.
I got an abortion. It made me happy and my life better.
Then I found out about another ‘fetus’.
So I got another abortion. The first one made me feel good, but this one was like over the top.
I was floating on cloud nine, but ... another fetus??? Who could have guessed?
So I just had to have that third abortion. It was my calling.
And it was everything I thought it would be!!!! Beyond anything anyone could have imagined.
I just wish everyone (males included) could experience the abortions like I did!! My meaning has been completed. The very purpose of my life is complete.
[Excuse me while I barf on myself — Sorry for this extreme sarcasm]
Maybe she had artificial insemination just so she could experience the joy of having an abortion.
well played....
“After I rid myself of my baby, I just skipped out of the abortion clinic into the sunshine and enjoyed life!”
That kind of story?
Well, she won;t find any such stories from the babies...they’re dead.
What a monster.
Thanks. Society has a way of sanitizing the disposal of “undesirables”.
Reminds me of the endless gay pride nonsense ... a nonstop effort to convince themselves they are happy and proud to be homosexual.
We're not buying it, by the way.
They look like bug-eyed trolls?
Homos want one thing - - to jam a thumb in the eye of normal people. Never forget that.
It's what their whole gay "marriage" tantrum is about.
There's a reason kids today still use phrases like, "That's so gay," as a deragatory comment. It has nothing to do with their upbringing or home environment, and is actually in direct contradiction to what the government schools relentlessly beat into them. Even the constant efforts of the decadent movie / television / news-soundbite culture to "normalize" homosexuality fail miserably when it comes to children.
No. Kids understand naturally, instinctively, that there is just something sick about a man pushing his penis into another man's anus full of turd. It's one of those things nobody needs to teach, and it is why homos instinctively feel ashamed of what they are and what they do, and why they suffer the tears of a clown even as they march with fake smiles in fake "pride" parades. In psychology parlance, it's known as a "Hall of Mirrors".
I know, I had the tune running through my head as I typed it.
” in all i just felt like this parasitic creature that burrowed its way into me and fed of my energy, apetite, [sic] and joy was removed. And I had been restored. “
That reminds me of the reaction of the Peter Sellers character in “Doctor Strangelove” after the A-bomb was dropped:
“Mein Fuhrer! I can Walk!”
It worked :-)
“They hate what makes women unique.”
Yes, this is “feminism” in a nutshell. They’ve always been like this, self-hating harridans.
” If you killed your baby and your happy let us know”?
Ye Gads. . . When I read that, in my mind it came with the tune of “If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands”
If you killed your baby and you’re happy, let us know
If you killed your baby and you’re happy, let us know
If you killed your baby and you’re happy, you’ll never have to change a nappy
If you killed your baby and you’re happy, let us know! “
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I’m wondering if about now I need to ping you???
“We also need “blithe and unapologetic” concentration camp stories.”
You can find plenty of those, from the Nazi side.
Whaddya mean.
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