When One (baby) Is Enough (ultimate in cold selfishness)

nytimes ^ | July 18, 2004 | AMY RICHARDS as told to AMY BARRETT

[wagglebee]

Peter asked: "Shouldn't we consider having triplets?"

He replied, ''What we're going to do.'' He respected what I was going through, but at a certain point, he felt that this was a decision we were making. I agreed.

He may have been reluctant at first but eventually he agreed (even if it was grudgingly).

When it is a matter of life and death, to sit idly by is an agreement. When someone does not do everything in one's power to halt a murder, their inaction is a act of consent. IMHO

[I-53]

Well, I think Satan jumped the shark this time. As often happens.

[thegreatbeast]

Young women used to be ashamed of an unwanted pregnancy. Many times she would be sent way to relatives to have the baby or there would be a shotgun wedding. Now there is zero shame in announcing to the the world, via the New York Times, that you legally killed (OK, she hired an MD hit man) two of your babies and let the third one live so you could love it and raise it.

It wasn't that long ago either. Hard to believe, huh?

[raybbr]

Sounds like this is her.

Also:

If abortion were connected to actual women--people like my friend Amy Richards, who had an abortion at 18 and a selective reduction last year when she found she was pregnant with triplets, or Nancy Flynn, who was a single mom finishing her BA at Cornell when she had an abortion and who told me she would "never have been able to have the rich life I've had and help my son as much as I have if I'd been the single mother of two children"--perhaps the mounting restrictions wouldn't pass so handily. To paraphrase the late poet Muriel Rukeyser: What if women told the truth about their abortions? Even if the world didn't split open, this paralyzing issue might.

From here. A letter about I am not sorry.com

amy richards

When Amy Richard s graduated from Barnard College in 1992, she did not know that her summer project would be the beginning of her career as a feminist activist, writer, and organizer. Amy expected to use her degree in Art History to work in a museum or gallery. Instead, after she organized Freedom Summer ’92, a cross-country voter registration drive, Amy went on to co-found the Third Wave Foundation, a national organization for young feminist activists between the ages of 15 and 30.

For a decade, Amy led Third Wave as it grew from a small grassroots organization into a national institution. At Third Wave, Amy created and sustained the organization’s program areas—grant-making, public education campaigns and a national membership—and initiated projects such as "I Spy Sexism," a public education and postcard campaign encouraging people to take action on the injustices that they witness every day, and "Why Vote?," a series of panel discussions on funding for the arts, education, reproductive rights, and affirmative action. Through this leadership, Amy became a spokesperson and leading voice for young feminist issues. This launched her on the lecturing circuit and brought her invitations to appear in videos, books and media interviews offering her perspective on current events and especially youth and feminist culture. Amy has appeared in a range of media venues including Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor, Oprah, Talk of the Nation, New York One and CNN. Amy was publicly distinguished as a leader in 1995 when Who Cares magazine chose her as one of twenty-five Young Visionaries. She has gone on to win accolades from Ms. magazine, which profiled her in "21 for the 21st: Leaders for the Next Century,” Women’s Enews, which in 2003 named her one of their “Leaders for the 21st Century,” and the American Association of University Women, which recently chose her as a 2004 Woman of Distinction.

As Amy moves into her thirties and away from her commitment to Third Wave, she makes her living as a lecturer, writer and consultant. Amy was the interim director for Twilight: Los Angeles, a film by Anna Deavere Smith, where she oversaw a national educational program that addressed race in America . She has also consulted to Scenarios USA on the distribution of their teen educational videos, to Gloria Stein em on her writing and political commitments, and to the Columbia School of Public Health on the long-term negative health consequences of welfare reform. Amy is also the voice behind Ask Amy, the online advice column she launched at feminist.com in 1995.

Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future, Amy’s first book, which she co-authored with Jennifer Baumgardner, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in October 2000. Amy and Jennifer just completed their second book, Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism, and together they also created Soapbox, a lecture agency for “speakers who speak out.” Amy’s writings have also appeared in The Nation, The LA Times, Bust, Ms. and numerous anthologies, including Listen Up, Body Outlaws and Catching A Wave. Insight Guides recently hired Amy to write a shopping guide toNew York City . She is also very involved with the organizations on whose boards and advisory committees she serves, Third Wave, Ms. Magazine, Choice USA, the Sadie Nash Leadership Program, feminist.com and Planned Parenthood of New York City.

Ms. Richards and her friend Baumgardner are radical feminists. I feel sorry for the father. I bet he doesn't know how badly he is screwed up.

[bourbon]

Like another poster suggested earlier, it seems that this baby was to be an accessory to her wardrobe.

See post #80. Same mentality.

[fortunecookie]

The procedure involves a shot of potassium chloride to the heart of the fetus.

How fitting and heartless - shot through the heart.

There are a lot more complications when a woman carries multiples.

And apparently no complications to this specialist's 'selection'. Oh, wait, the would-be baby. I guess it didn't suffer from complications - it was the complication. How utterly Nazi.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

When someone does not do everything in one's power to halt a murder...

So you're saying he should have talked more, I guess. She just doesn't sound like a person willing to be persuaded to me.

[unspun]

This is the mind of pro-choice America.

And it is the heart of those who have been indoctrinated in the Big Lie that core of the privilege of being an American is personal freedom, not the responsibility of virtue as one accountable to God.

[baltodog]

Let's hope her "stand-alone" doesn't look for a syringe full of Potassium Chloride when she is old and ill and needs hourly care....

[unspun]

pardon the typo:

This is the heart of those who have been indoctrinated in the Big Lie that the core of the privilege of being an American is personal freedom, not the responsibility of virtue as one accountable to God.

[Meldrim]

The Boston Pops has nothing to do with her infanticide. I am just down the street from the Hatshell and the fact that there will always be some slummy people there does not detract from my enjoyment of the show. I won't let it.

[volchef]

Not only is she a rabid feminist, but the mother of a SON. I wonder how she would've felt if someone had bothered to do an amnio on the dead babies and told her they were both girls.

[I-53]

And after all this, all she could say was "I had a boy, and everything is fine." Somehow, I don't think so. I don't think everything is fine. This is a soul that needs major prayer.

[I-53]

The Boston Pops has nothing to do with her infanticide.

I was just kidding. Sorry you didn't get it.

[HitmanLV]

I, I, I, me, me, me. What about me? I won't be able to fly! Sheesh!

I also am impressed with the riot act she reads her boyfriend - I can't imagine a better reason to hightail it out of that relationship. He has been given his warning - I give this married relationship a couple of years before they discover their 'irreconcilable differences.'

The boyfriend/father should grow a pair and find a real woman to warm his bed.

[thegreatbeast]

The NYT is so radically pro-abort that it doesn't even see how letting this get published exposes such people as the self-absorbed jerks they really are to anyone with even an ounce of compassion.

Seriously, what do you suppose the Times was thinking exposing this terrible saga to the light of day?

[wagglebee]

Peter asked: "Shouldn't we consider having triplets?"

This is his first comment on the news of triplets. This threw the murderous mother into a fit of rage.

He replied, ''What we're going to do.''

This is his next comment, where he agrees to the murder.

You wrote: She just doesn't sound like a person willing to be persuaded to me.

I fail to see where he even tried to persuader her. One question, asking a person to consider allowing babies to live is not an effort of persuasion.

Were this man on trial for being an accessory to homocide (a crime in the eyes of the law), his inaction would constitute guilt. Infanticide is a "fundamental right" in the eyes of the law; however, this man is still an accessory to it.

[HitmanLV]

More than many, but less than most NYC women are imply hideous. That's one (of many) reasons I left NYC and don't regret it.

[I-53]

But it does raise a point, as this article raises so many points, that one can be cultured and still be barbaric. Not that that's news to anyone.

[BabsC]

Let's hope her "standalone" doesn't look for a syringe full of Potassium Chloride when she is old and ill and needs hourly care....

What a good point!