Teresa Heinz Abortion Shocker: I Planned to End Pregnancy

NewsMax.com, People ^ | April 30, 2004 | Carl Limbacher

[Ohioan from Florida]

Couldn't agree with you more!

[Revel]

Not that the child being called deformed would be an excuse to murder an unborn child, But we should not take her story so gullably. There is a good chance that there were no tests showing that the child was deformed. There is a good chance that this is a cover story to justify what she did. Someone may have found out about the abortion and this is the cover. I would should like to see those test results.

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[Miss Marple]

No, they aren't. However, there is a case in the UK brought by a Church of England priest about cleft palate babies being aborted by the National Health Service.

In addition, cleft palate was listed as one of the reasons for partial birth abortion in the US.

I would like to emphasize that it is NOT a reason to abort. People who think this is a disaster are uninformed. Anyone who has questions about it should contact me by Freepmail. I will be happy to explain what surgeries we went through and how things turned out.

[Delphinium]

I am 49 and if I became pregnant I too would gladly welcome that child.

My first child was without a husband and I hit some very hard times. He was formed perfectly, but has caused me alot of sleepless nights.

You are so right Difficulties in life are just something we need to work at to overcome, and with God's help, that's possible

[JohnnyZ]

I would should like to see those test results.

I think I would almost not even want to know. There are a lot of ugly roads that could lead from the story TeRAYza is telling.

[ardara]

My wife and I had our youngest daughter when we were 42.We never looked back.We just had a wedding for this wonderful gift of God.I think people think too much about material things today.

[JBCiejka]

I don't believe she was married to him 20 years ago. She was either married to her first husband or a widow.

[Bismarck]

The abortion of a severely deformed fetus is, in my opinion, morally justified. Of course,I think that ending a perfectly normal and healthy pregnancy, that resulted from a consensual act, is an aberration.

[blackdog]

I'm a farmer. We raise sheep in big batches. Our first sheep we owned, named "Ma"(back when we named them) became infertile due to age and arthritis, normally a time to send her off for dogfood.

Since she was our first ewe and deserved a special status, we let her live and hang out with the breeding herd. Sure she could barely walk, but she ate, drank, and seemed alert and happy but without purpose. That bothers animals, not having purpose.

After four barren years, hobbled with arthritis, Ma got a bounce in her step last Christmas. She was no longer the last in line, last at the feeders, and seemed to have purpose. In March, Ma delivered a nice healthy female lamb. The first female in her 16 lambs she produced. Ma now is so proud. A full five years past the age of which sheep stop breeding and usually waste away.

Good thing Mrs.Kerry isn't a sheep. Her ilk would have sent her off for dogfood. And what would Johnny do for spendin cash?

[kitkat]

***As much as I dislike Teresa, I think she did the right thing.***

"Mom! MOMMIE! What evil thing did I do that you're going to execute me for? "

[cyncooper]

It does not say she had an abortion. She was planning to but had a miscarriage.

[Bismarck]

So, would you honestly raise a severly deformed baby?

[PennsylvaniaMom]

What a neat story...thanks for posting it.

[passionfruit]

"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,"

I am having real difficulty with this story. If this happened 20 years ago, when she was 45 years of age, that would mean that she is 65 now. Is that true? She looks much younger. Does anyone know how old she is? I would like to do the math, and see who she was married to at the age of 45.

If it was John Kerry, the "severe deformity" for which this baby was sentenced to die might be a fear that he or she might look like dad.

[snowstorm12]

Well if it was deformed what else was she to do?

[wingnuts'nbolts]

I was 37 when I took my 6 month old granddaughter to raise....but she was beautiful and the joy of my life until she turned 13 1/2. I've never quite recovered. She is 28 and getting a divorce. 'Nuf said. When I was 50 the same daughter gave birth to a child with cerebal Palsey and I took him too. For 4 years. He is the light of our lives.
I cannot understand how one qualifies the child, excuse me, fetus, to be discarded or kept! My grandson cannot walk easily so he uses a morotized chair, he is smart but not worldly, probably because he is shielded so much by overprotective adults. He is 16, going on 11 or 12. He is loving, intelligent, has a soul that is astonishing. I would take another one now. What the heck is wrong with you people who can't be inconvenienced?

[Pippin]

"The abortion of a severely deformed fetus is, in my opinion, morally justified. Of course,I think that ending a perfectly normal and healthy pregnancy, that resulted from a consensual act, is an aberration."

I have a question, If theat is true that aborting a deformed child is morrally justified then Do you think I shouold habe been aborted?

I was bonr 1 month premature, Had to have a operation done on my head when I was still an infant. I am blind in one eye and I suffer from siezures, all since birth. Yet I am 47 years old and working in a really good job. I travel and I do research.

I think you better rethink that position about deformed children.

I live because my mom made the CHOICE for LIFE!

[cyncooper]

If real, this is big.

Having a miscarriage--even if planning an abortion--is not "big". If the story is as she says (I know), then it's nothing.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

She is 65, and though I don't like her politics, I also thinks she looks younger than her years (but not in a Joan Rivers-multiple face lift kind of way). I guess when you have $500 million it takes alot of stress out of your life that can age the rest of us.

Sen. John Heinz would have still been alive 20 years ago, so the child lost would have been their fourth (the Heinz's had three sons).

As to the abortion she contemplated, the argument of aborting a 'severely deformed fetus' is usually moot. Nature generally does take care of non-viable pregnancies.