What Happens When There Is No Plan B? (or Conservatives made me have an abortion)

Washington Post ^ | Sunday, June 4, 2006 | Dana L

[Fzob]

The conservative politics of the Bush administration forced me to have an abortion I didn't want. Well, not literally, but let me explain.

I am a 42-year-old happily married mother of two elementary-schoolers. My husband and I both work, and like many couples, we're starved for time together. One Thursday evening this past March, we managed to snag some rare couple time and, in a sudden rush of passion, I failed to insert my diaphragm.

[Fzob]

This women has no clue about personal responsibility

[bboop]

I am sorry, this is SO personal. No boundaries. And this, too, is Bush's fault? hahahaha.

[bboop]

What a pathetic whine. She'll be a great mom, too.

[madprof98]

Although I've always been in favor of abortion rights, this was a choice I had hoped never to have to make myself.

No doubt because she would have preferred to spend the afternoon shopping.

[WideGlide]

I failed to insert my diaphragm

Operative word is underlined.

[xcamel]

Pathetic indeed.

[Jackknife]

Blame Bush for anything. My super-lib boss got flipped off in traffic the other day, and he said, "Sure enough, when the car passed me, it had a BIG 'W' sticker on the back. That's what's wrong with this country now!"

I almost passed out from laughing so hard! These liberal Bush-haters are blind to all of reality.

[NativeNewYorker]

I know a govt lifer who raged at the Reagan Administration when she had to pay for her own abortion under parallel cicumstances (married, two kids, etc.).

And rage is the right word, I assure you.

[Fzob]

You're right, this is so personal I have doubt it's a true story.

[Madstrider]

You got that right! She uses a diaphram? The downside to diaphrams is ... in the heat of passions their forgotten. And if this couple was so sure that their family was set then why didn't one of them get fixed?

[Fzob]

Sadly she already has two.

[Popman]

This women has no clue about personal responsibility

I would disagree, this women has no clue about her personal ethics.

Her decision to have an abortion is based primarily on "situational ethics" not what moral philosophy dictates her life.

Interestingly, her husbands influence disappears after "the sudden rush of passion" Is he just a sperm donor or part of the family???

[NYIslander]

This woman is a digrace. She's financially able to raise the child. This is simply a matter of her being totally irresponsible.

Words can't describe my disgust.

[Sashula]

Oh, the sheer inconvenience of it all. Why don't those dang conservatives make it easy for obviously important people like this to kill their babies the instant they want them dead?

Hey, Dana: did you ever consider that your family wasn't "complete" until the conception of this amazing blessing you decided to murder?

[Chuck54]

I'm just glad she didn't blame Bush for impregnating her.

This is one loony female. She needs to have kids about as much as I need to own a Boeing 747.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

What is wrong with Republican presidents anyway? Between Ronald Reagan's responsibility for homosexuals getting AIDS and now George Bush forcing liberal women to kill their kids, I just don't know what this world is coming to.

What did these women do for somebody to blame during the Clinton administration when they had sex without thinking about the consequences, got pregnant, and killed their kids then? Do liberal women become quivering masses of burka-clad victims who have no control over their own lives and no personal responsibility only when a Republican is president?

[John Valentine]

Not only is she a whine, but she doesn't know what every teenage girl knows: how to mimic the "Plan B" pill with ordinary birth-control pills.

What a dummy.

[sauropod]

One Thursday evening this past March, we managed to snag some rare couple time and, in a sudden rush of passion, I failed to insert my diaphragm.

Yep. Bush stole it.

[BenLurkin]

She wanted to abort the baby either way.

She is simply unhappy that she couldn't do it easily by taking a pill.

[Lord Basil]

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