Posted on 04/30/2004 4:47:38 PM PDT by Carl/NewsMax
In an interview set to hit newsstands next week, prospective first lady Teresa Heinz Kerry reveals that after she became pregnant at age 45 she decided to have an abortion.
"Twenty years ago, Heinz Kerry says she became pregnant, and, upon learning she was carrying a fetus that would be born severely deformed, made an appointment to end the pregnancy," People magazine reports in its upcoming May 10 issue.
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No. 2, 45-year-old women can be in full menopause, and then suddenly be out of it. I was in full menopause at 38 years of age. If I had had sex with someone who had not had a vasectomy, I could have gotten pregnant. I didn't.
So take than to your Lions' Den and suck on it. Just, perhaps, maybe, you might understand that all women are not alike. If I had had a child at 45, I would have bled to death. It's a problem with bleeding.
Pro-choice, my arse.
As I mentioned, there are fullproof methods to guarantee no pregnancy will result from intercource.
If I had had sex with someone who had not had a vasectomy, I could have gotten pregnant. I didn't.
See? You just mentioned one.
So take than to your Lions' Den and suck on it. Just, perhaps, maybe, you might understand that all women are not alike. If I had had a child at 45, I would have bled to death. It's a problem with bleeding.
Again, if a woman knows she'd need to abort her child because she is too old to safely become pregnant, what's so difficult about surgically ensuring no pregnancy is possible? It would seem to me that's vastly superior to risking a situation where you must murder a child to prevent the death of the mother. Am I wrong here?
A horrible accident is definitely not something I'd term "weird." Plus, Laura did not debase herself by gushing about her personal tragedies to a magazine interviewer.
A "near-miss" abortion story IS weird. What was the point? And how can it be verified?
October 31, 2003
'Letters to Gabriel' shares mother's story of life, death
by Jennifer Brinker, Review Staff Writer
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LOVING LETTERS - In 'Letters to Gabriel,' Karen Garver Santorum, wife of U. S. Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., shares a series of letters she wrote to her infant son, Gabriel Michael. The child, diagnosed with posterior urethral valve, was born at 20 weeks old and lived for only two hours.
When Karen Garver Santorum began writing letters to her unborn son in 1996, never did she imagine they would become the focus of a book.
Santorums son, Gabriel Michael, was born with a fatal defect five months before his due date and lived for two hours. Her 1998 book, "Letters to Gabriel," shares the heartfelt letters Santorum wrote to her son during her pregnancy and for a year after his birth and death and how she dealt with the grieving process.
The book also reflects on her husband, Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., and his fight to ban partial-birth abortion, which was going on at the same time.
The Santorums were in St. Louis earlier this month at the annual archdiocesan Pro-Life Convention, where they delivered a keynote speech. Karen Santorum also took time to speak to the Review about "Letters to Gabriel."
"It was difficult to publish," Santorum said of the book.
She added that it was the encouragement of her parents that led her to publish the letters. "But I really believe God wanted me to do this, and it has been a benefit to so many. We have received thousands of letters."
In the books introduction, Santorum wrote, "I offer no theories, no analysis of grief, no simple solutions to human loss and suffering. I offer only this the story of my son and the sword that pierced my heart." In letters to Gabriel, Santorum shares her joy of finding out she was pregnant with Gabriel Michael, and the heartache when a doctor told her 19 weeks into the pregnancy that the couples son would not survive.
"With your sisters and brothers present in the room and without the slightest trace of compassion or emotion, the radiologist studied the screen for a moment and said, Your baby has a fatal defect and is going to die," Santorum wrote.
Gabriel Michael had posterior urethral valve, a condition in which a baby is not able to empty the fluid from his or her bladder, because of a valve in the urinary system that is not able to open. Fluid from the bladder empties into the amniotic sac surrounding the baby.
At the same time of her pregnancy, Santorums husband was leading the fight to ban partial-birth abortion. In "Letters to Gabriel," Karen Santorum wrote about how she watched the Senate debate on partial-birth abortion during her pregnancy.
Just days before she found out Gabriel Michael had a defect, Karen Santorum recalled how she heard one senator during the debate say, "No member of this Senate can face the trauma that is represented by the issue of late-term abortion."
Later, after Gabriel Michaels death, Santorum wrote, "Will your Daddys arguments be more authentic and believable and persuasive now that hes been there?"
Rick Santorum said that a copy of "Letters to Gabriel" was given to every U.S. senator.
"There were two pro-choice senators who are no longer in the Senate who I know were really touched," by the book, he said. "We really hope it has had an impact."
"Letters to Gabriel" is published by CCC of America and retails for $14.99. It is available at area bookstores
We're there.
Ever hear of "Dr. Peter Singer", the "Professor of Bioethics" at Princeton?
The USA has fallen into a timewarp.
We're partying like it's 1939...
In any other context,it would be seen as inhuman, e.g., "I don't believe in divorce, but I'm bored with my husband -- he's just become so... inconvenient -- and so, I was thinking of divorcing him. But the day before I was going to file papers on him, he got killed by a drunk driver. Whew!"
There is such a massive logical disconnect surrounding the subject (abortion), that, it's like mass hypnosis.
Just a drop in the bucket. The drive now is to advance the cult of death even further. Singer wants to kill them after they're born. And, he's taken seriously, given a prestigious post at an ivy league university, and welcomed in polite society.
We've blown clean through the "handwriting on the wall" stage. We're inside the gates of hell, to coin a phrase.
You're undoubtedly correct & there will be no transferrence to Heinz Ketchup.
Still, whenever I rent a car & see the Hertz counter, I still think of O.J. Simpson leaping over chairs at the airport...and, inevitably, rent from Avis, Alamo or Budget...
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