A monster in human skin.
L
Posted on 01/23/2008 10:26:14 AM PST by Utah Girl
A recent essay by Alison Piepmeier of the College of Charleston provides some of the best examples of the cruelty, heartlessness, and utter self-absorption embodied in the modern feminist movement. Aptly titled, “Choosing Us,” the essay shows that, for feminists, abortion is a device to prevent one thing: Feminist inconvenience.
Alison begins her abortion story by informing her readers that her unwanted pregnancy began with an “ecstatic, hushed fling on the cold tiles of the bathroom floor a few weeks earlier” while her brother and his girlfriend were in the other room. She had used contraception, but the contraception had failed. After crying for a few hours, she confessed that she made up her mind to abort fairly quickly: “…unlike those after-school special girls, who always decide to either keep the baby or give it up for adoption, I wanted an abortion.”
What is odd about her quick decision to abort is that she was no teenager. She was 31 years old when she got pregnant and was in a “stable relationship.” In fact, the man who got her pregnant was “Walter,” her husband of five years. She had kept several hundred dollars tucked away in case she ever needed to terminate an unplanned pregnancy - a habit she did not terminate even after years of marriage.
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Oh those easy liberal women.
Thank God this isn’t a Catholic college. We’ve had enough of this $hit.
A monster in human skin.
L
This entire story made me gag. Particularly the “lovely” little ceremony they concocted together to memorialise the event. All about self, (see what I made, I made a cerermony, all by myself, I am so big now.) Why are they so proud of themselves?
Last paragraph just really leaves me gasping in incredulity.
Remember when that used to be a dime to call for a ride home? You've come a long way, baby. /tu
24. Feminism was established as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society.
And we might as well throw in:
22. Morality is not defined by individual choice.
Ditto that.
I have never seen such profound selfishness written in such disturbingly pleasant language. By the end of her bizarre tale, one would think that killing your child is the very best marriage therapy.
I'm amazed at the flexibility of the human mind, and what it can be led to believe is correct.
You can say that again...these two really need grow up. From one of her essays:
Alison
My husband and I have been together for 11 years, married for four. We lived together for the seven years preceding our marriage; since we got married, though, we've lived in the same zip code only sporadically. We joke that the marriage finally split us up, but the fact is that our careers are to blame. When we met, he was a musician, working a variety of temporary jobs to make ends meet. I was the driven one, the achiever, excelling in school and with a great future ahead of me. We thought we had it all figured out: My career would be the one that mattered; I would be the breadwinner; he could go anywhere I wanted to go. So he followed me to grad school. I was so grateful that we were not going to be one of those couples with two high-powered careers—in fact, we would scoff at the academics we knew (many of them) who lived apart for years at a time. "How can they do that?" we would ask. "How is that a marriage?"
Then slowly, over the course of several years, Walter developed academic goals, goals that took him away for classes for months at a time, to the point that now he's getting ready to move across the country to start grad school. And I'm staying here. When it was my turn, he followed me, but I am not doing the same. I did look for positions near where he will be, but I was only able to round up a few adjunct courses at a variety of universities. No benefits, no stability, and more important, no chance to advance my career. I couldn't do it. I love my husband, but I also love my job—and I love the accomplishments I've made at it: one book published, another under contract. Since my career is no longer the only one that matters, we are embarking on a commuter marriage.
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These feminazis are truly vile and disgusting!
What I don’t understand is why, if a person of a couple or both persons don’t want a child ... why don’t one or both people get sterilized?
It’s much simpler and safer than an abortion (especially for the man). Why put yourself through all that if you don’t wan’t a child?
I don’t understand it. Sterilization is so simple and easy ... at least no more invasive than an abortion.
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What would be proved as premeditated murder (kept several hundred dollars tucked away in case) in a few months time is looked on as a bonding event full of love. How can this be? She’s one seriously mentally disturbed person.
What a selfish [rhymes with punt].
Notice the contrived, fey, misty-poo spirituality, the tactic of the religious charlatan. She thanks the "dear potential person,” for coming, hopes that "it" goes and gets itself reincarnated someplace else, beheads a flower (symbolic recapitulation of the real deal, but tastefully without gouts of red), and then “hopes to God" the beheaded flowers don’t "wash back ashore here.”
Here's my messae to her, if I only knew where to send it:
Alison. Moral truth is an objective reality. It does not always embody your preferences, yet you must conform yourself to it if you ever hope to be a moral person.
Even if the flower-heads never "wash back ashore," your thoughts will keep washing back over you until you acknowledge this truth.
May the Lord break your crooked heart. May you suffer well. May you heal well. And may your new heart abide in truth, and never again betray your child, or your soul, to death.
That was my first thought as well.
She’s evidently from Cookeville TN; any Tennessee Freepers know the Cookeville Piepmeiers and how proud they must be of their little Alison?
Known in civil circles as a "conscience".
I found the “ceremony” creepy as well. G.K. Chesterton said when people turn away from God they will turn to anything and everything.
Excellent response
Reading the article reminded me of an excellent book: “When Choice Becomes God” by F. LaGard Smith. It is pretty obvious that Alison Piepmeier’s god does not reside outside of herself.
Their callousness toward the life of their baby made me sick at heart.
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