Posted on 08/10/2006 4:13:23 PM PDT by Fishtalk
As is every man who proclaims his concern for "a woman's right to her own body" when what he really cares about is his ability to use women's bodies without consequence.
Thanks for your story, and God bless you.
I've said in a couple of Freepmails but let me state right out loud right here....there is NOTHING more demeaning to a woman than to be carted around like so much garbage, manipulated and cajoled and pressured, into killing an unborn baby.
I wanted to be loved and cherished. I wanted this man who I did love once upon a time, on some level, to hold me and promise to take care of me.
Paying the deductible on the health insurance and making all the arrangements, even that night spent with me out of so-called loving "concern", hey, it was a degrading experience I shall never forget.
These NAGS need to sit down and shut up. All they've done is promote the further sexual objectification of women, something that had been their mantra and rallying cry for so many years.
For how much of a sex object is a female when her body is used for male pleasure but discarded, stapled and folded when that same body does what it was designed to do: to bring forth life?
They make me so damn sick. Hey, if MS and Gloria would just keep their stupid mouths shut I might not be so mad. But to want women to stand up tall and say they are PROUD, PROUD I tell you, to have been so used by a male in their life that they loved enough to be initimate with....hey, I gotta shut up now I get so mad.
The utter arrogance of it makes me want to spit.
"Speaking truth to power", hey it's a huge liberal mantra.
So I speak truth to the power of those NAGS who have grown so darn powerful they've completely lost touch with the women they represent.
They don't have one damn clue.
Then you should not be surprised if people get personal and accusatory with you.
I assume you would not advocate making the murder of say, grandmothers by their granddaughters legal. Now imagine someone shows up in here and says: "A long time ago I hired a gangster to kill my grandmother. It was very traumatic for me. It should be very difficult to hire gangsters for that purpose, but it should be legal". What would your personal reaction to that person be?
Absolutely one of the most ridiculous things I've read at FR...and that says ALOT.
link to it
Do you imply that it is not to be re-posted FR style elsewhere? I want to post it on LibertyForum; it would get better readership if I post it in total. Of course, there will be an attribution to Pat Fish and FreeRepublic.
LibertyForum is a libertarian site in concept, and has no restriction of what is posted there. Some language can be bad and some content inacceptable in most other places.
I'll abide by your instruction.
I think the distinction between those who had committed an abortion and are now pro-life and those who remain pro-abortion is very important here. It is un-Christian in the extreme to hurl invective at a murderer who repented of her act. It is important to convict an unrepentant murderer morally, especially since we cannot convict them juridically.
I told my tale and I stand by it. I have been even more heartened by the many stories of other women who feel just as I do about their experiences. This is what bugs the hell out of me. The NAGS have it all wrong.
I don't care how the missive is shared is what I'm saying here. God I'd love for the feminazis to get clued into it.
Did I tell you they make me want to spit? But hey, am I bitter?
What did you find amusing?
Thank you very much. Shortly I will. I will post a link here.
If they should be legal, why should they be difficult to get?
Moral Hazard, unless ther more details that you didn't make available to us, your "near the end of pregnancy" brother was an almost fully-developed viable baby, and the doctor would be ethically obliged to try to save both of them (your mother and your brother.) At that point, anemia or no anemia, there's no "advantage" in abortion over childbirth, Except you guarantee a dead baby.
I'm glad you're here, but there's no way you can say with confidence that you wouldn't have been, no matter what the other child's fate.
After all you've been through, I'm surprized to see this.
Why would you support this "choice"? So that others might suffer as you did?
Having said that, I still offer my support and pray for your mind to be comforted.
Nothing makes murder "OK". But the difference between repentance and defiance is the difference between blessing and abomination.
Warning: rough language in the thread, which probably will get worse. I have quite a way with words over there myself, with apologies to the Gentle Freeper.
Let me use this opportunity to invite pro-lifers to LibertyForum, where more than a few important battles rage.
Abortions will cease whem women refuse to submit.
(Several layers of meaning there.)
It was very brave of you to tell your story. Thank you for sharing.
Everyone's subjective story is different ---but the moral foulness of abortion is objectively the same.
Wanna see how your story would appear in Ms. Magazine?
His name was Gregory (NOT!) and he came into my life when my life had finally settled down after my sad divorce. I had a house, a result of my divorce settlement. Gregory had a job with a government contractor which paid well. We were both college educated, free, monetarily secure and we talked of a future together.
It's no mind how on earth I got pregnant because birth control pills were widely available. I don't know why I didn't use them but I did use some form of birth control. Which didn't work.
Because I was young and had no children as of yet, I wasn't paying attention to such as cycles. At some point the pregnancy advanced beyond the first trimester before even my naïve self got a clue. We didn't have pregnancy tests that could bought in the grocery thus it was a way bigger deal to check a possible pregnancy test than it is today. When I got the results [of my pregancy test] from the doctor I called Gregory right up and told him because why should only I know?
There was little time. On Wednesday I found out I was pregnant and on the following Friday I had an abortion. Gregory, sweet thing, had arranged the whole thing.
My company-paid health insurance covered the abortion but there was a $200 deductible. Which Gregory paid out his own pocket, driving over fifty miles to the hospital that would be doing the abortion because they wouldn't even schedule a room until the deductible was paid. Goodness Gregory even spent the night at my house the night before the abortion (no, we didn't live together) as he was "concerned" for me.
Why did Gregory and I choose to have an abortion? Frankly, I have no idea. We fought about politics all the time-I the liberal, he the "manly man" conservative. After the abortion, I threw Gregory over the bow just as soon as I could because, hey, he was a creep and a hypocrite.
As for me, I went on to get married and I did have a daughter. A daughter who would not be here if it were not for that abortion. Had I not had that abortion I would have been giving birth to Gregory's baby around the time my daughter was conceived. I've often justified that abortion by rationalizing that one child was lost but another child was born that wouldn't have been.
End.
Guaranteed it'll be edited like that, or something close. So, if you truly are opposed to abortion (as I believe you are), then I'd take this post into consideration before deciding to share your story. Because believe me, the leftists in the media use the "we reserve the right to edit letters for content and brevity" clause to their maximal benefit.
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