[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

Bump. It's amazing to watch the contortions these people put themselves through to continue defending what they know is wrong.

[lsee]

Rather, Richards's colleagues and letter writers to the Times Magazine seemed uncomfortable with the way that she, a pro-choice activist, talked about paring down her fetal load. Richards openly expressed her concerns that having three babies would send her into a spiral of downward mobility. And when she found out she was pregnant with three, she asked her doctor bluntly, "Is it possible to get rid of one of them? Or two of them?"

Wow...my sister has four children...and that boggles my mind because I have trouble keeping up with the needs of my own, smaller family...But I could not honestly say, once they were here in our lives, that "this one or that one" is the one we could have done without. Paring down her fetal load? Wow...So, when she is annoyed with the children she didn't kill, I wonder if she ever says to them, "I wish I had aborted YOU!"

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

Justification of wrong acts at any cost. It is quite amazing.

[TChris]

It's amazing to watch the contortions these people put themselves through to continue defending what they know is wrong.

Yes it is. The glaring duplicity of saying, on the one hand, that a fetus is just a "mass of cells", and that the removal of that "mass of cells" is no more serious than having your gall bladder removed, when compared to the frequent discussion, even among abortion proponents, that it's a "serious decision" to have an abortion is astonishing. If it's just a "mass of cells", why is it such a "serious decision" to have it removed? If it's a "serious decision", then it probably isn't just a "mass of cells", is it?