Posted on 08/15/2012 10:35:00 AM PDT by mojito
If there is one thing that anti-choice activists do that makes me see red, it is when they parade out their poster children: men, women and children who were "targeted for abortion". They tell us "these people would not be alive today if abortion had been legal or if their mothers had made a different choice".
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The narrative that anti-choice crusaders are telling is powerful, moving, and best of all it has a happy ending. It makes the woman who carries to term a hero, and for narrative purposes it hides her maternal failing. We cannot argue against heroic, redemptive, happy-ending fairytales using cold statistics. If we want to keep our reproductive rights, we must be willing to tell our stories, to be willing and able to say, "I love my life, but I wish my mother had aborted me."
An abortion would have absolutely been better for my mother. An abortion would have made it more likely that she would finish high school and get a college education. At college in the late 1960s, it seems likely she would have found feminism or psychology or something that would have helped her overcome her childhood trauma and pick better partners. She would have been better prepared when she had children. If nothing else, getting an abortion would have saved her from plunging into poverty. She likely would have stayed in the same socioeconomic strata as her parents and grandparents who were professors. I wish she had aborted me because I love her and want what is best for her.
Abortion would have been a better option for me. If you believe what reproductive scientists tell us, that I was nothing more than a conglomeration of cells, then there was nothing lost.
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@LynnBeisner Hi there. I saw your heartfelt piece on abortion. Is this something you're able to talk about on TV? Am assuming not...
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Lynn Beisner
@LynnBeisner
Writer, feminist, mother, academic, and researcher in the fields of social science and religious studies
South-eastern United States
when you grow up and realize that you have been a burden to your parents, the proper response is not to wish that were dead, it is to do everything you can to show GRATITUDE for their sacrifices. This writer could shower her mother with love and financial assistance. She could honor her in numerous ways.
Nobody enters life without causing a certain amount of hardship on others. We don’t kill ourselves. We thank our parents and do the same for the next generation.
An aborted baby has NO choice. This idiot a$$hole is now an adult and is capable of making her own choices.
If she feels she is not “worthy” to be alive, then she should pull the damn trigger!
Apparently, even the Christian ones didn't really "stick" with her.
Rope + Tree, Train + Tracks, Vein + Razor, Tylenol + Vodka, Toy Gun + Cop, Ledge + Jump ... Honey, there are hundreds of ways for you to make up for your mommy’s “mistake”. Writing this infantile screed is not one of them.
She still can.
Lynn Beisner is the pseudonym for a contributing writer at Role/Reboot. She lives in the American South-East with her children, husband and ...
... she must really be angry at her mother. I read her as saying she wishs her mother would have waited to have her so that she would have been a better mother, instead of the apparently deficient mother Ms. “Beisner” perceives her to be.
Sicking.
I believe each person has some worth. They (and we) just need to find it.
You stop that right now! Life is WORTH living, no matter what troubles we come across.
I do pray you were being sarcastic.
Wow. Do they actually think something like this actually helps their side?
been praying for 20 yrs, no ones listening, health still good, but at 60, won't be long.
At college in the late 1960s, it seems likely she would have found feminism or psychology or something that would have helped her overcome her childhood trauma and pick better partners.
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Good God Almighty.
I read the article. I read where the mother was brain damaged, abused and was in poor mental health.
That being the case - Thank God she didn’t go on to college and learn “feminism or psychology”.
Female mass murderes are rare. But if this woman would have learned that crap?
The world would never forget her.
she is an evil representative of the PRO-DEATH cult that seeks utopia through power and coersion and desires less human competition for the limited amount of pie the world has to offer...
eugenics in all of its forms are simply a tool of evil to be used to perpetuate even greater evils...
we have a long road to recovery...
What’s more shocking is the comments applauding her “brave” article.
I hate it when the moral authority of science is misused in this way.
A fetus is indeed a conglomeration of cells, as is every other living thing.
Science does not have, and cannot have, any input on what value we should assign to particular conglomerations of cells.
Now where are all the Feminist psychologists preaching empowerment?/s
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