Why I chose abortion twice

UK Telegraph ^ | 5/12/08 | Lucy Cavendish

[digger48]

>>Virtually every woman I know of my generation has had an abortion.<< Stopped right there.

Exactly the place I stopped, too.

[Tammy8]

Well that stopped me too- but I realized she may be right about every women she knows. They say you are known by the company you keep.

[eclecticEel]

There seems to be no coming together of women in solidarity over abortion. Women unite to help when a battered wife leaves a husband or a wife and mother is abandoned by a husband or lover, but on the issue of abortion there is a resounding silence. We don't swap stories over the dinner table. We do not nod in sympathy.

Of course not, mankind (speaking generically of both men and women) likes to hide its own sinfulness. There really is no confusion over the issue of abortion, everyone knows that the 'fetus' is alive and that aborting it is killing a human being. The only difference is that some people care while others don't.

[LADY J]

"And I do not regret it. I don't lie awake wondering what these foetuses would have grown into or how old they would be now or any of that stuff. For a while afterwards, on the odd occasion, I did. It would have helped, I think, to have been able to speak to someone about it."

It would have helped to speak to someone about it?

Somebody like yourself to assure you that it was just fine to get rid of the 'fetuses' & never have to think about them again?

There will be a day of judgement where you will have that chance to speak.

You don't lie awake thinking about all that stuff??

The very fact that you feel the need to write about it now - after all that time has passed makes me believe that in your soul - you know that these children you carried next to your heart & killed...will never let you get it out of your mind.

[Xenalyte]

“We are sometimes made to feel that we are murdering our unborn babies and acting immorally.”

That’s because you ARE, you stupid cow.

[Alouette]

The implication is that a woman has got pregnant because she is an irresponsible, selfish slut who doesn't care about the life of her unborn child and cares only for herself.

If the shoe fits...

[Xenalyte]

Most women don’t think. They feel. They THINK they’re thinking, but they’re not.

That’s why most of my friends are men.

[CindyDawg]

Virtually every woman I know of my generation has had an abortion.<< Stopped right there.

She must believe that to justify what she did was normal and ok. I usually just skip these articles but this person..if there is a Lucy or someone else's thoughs...is fighting a battle within herself. Pray for her and the others like her.

[OKIEDOC]

Lucy Cavendish = Murderer and Slut

[ikka]

We are sometimes made to feel that we are murdering our unborn babies and acting immorally.

Maybe because you are?

[netmilsmom]

>>They say you are known by the company you keep. <<

Exactly. I’m 47. I know of two women who have had abortions.

One is young. I find her to be a selfish person all the way around.
The other is haunted by grief and I pray for her.

And do you know how many women I know? I would have to say over a hundred!

[trumandogz]

George W. Bush is building a Pro Life Majority on the Supreme Court and Roe will be overturned in the next five years.

At that point the abortion question moves to the state legislatures where abortion will be outlawed in most states.

However, it will be important to place severe enforcement mechanisms in the Pro Life Laws to deter women from having abortions.

[Vaduz]

The women of T.A.A.G.O.W.
Tight.As.A.Glass.Of.Water

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

It is not abortion, it is the planned
murder of the most helpless!

[trisham]

We shall see. President Bush may have his faults, but I could not be more pleased with what he has accomplished with regard to the Court.

[FORTRUTHONLY]

Virtually every woman I know of my generation has had an abortion.

The writes is definitely entitled to her own opinion but she is definitely not entitled to her own facts.

[Appleby]

That woman needs to get a better class of *everyone*. This reminds me of that woman Pauline Kael from NYC who said she could not understand how Reagan had got elected since *nobody I know voted for him.*

Restricting your *knowledge* to that possessed only by the people you *know* is always a dangerous idea.

[trisham]

Exactly right. I was thinking of the same thing.

[reg45]

even my committed boyfriend looked surprised when I asked him what he thought we ought to do about my being pregnant

"committed boyfriend" is an oxymoron. If he were truly committed, he would be her husband.

[proudtobeanamerican1]

I unfortunately kept reading and my upset stomach is much worse.