Posted on 12/04/2014 6:44:07 AM PST by wagglebee
Over the last few years, the rallying cry of the pro-abortion movement has subtly shifted from making abortion “safe, legal, and rare” to celebrating “abortion on demand and without apology.” Women, the latter school of thought holds, should never entertain a second thought about the child they abort, regardless of the reasons for their decision.
A new school of radical feminists – and “freedom riders” from the Revolutionary Communist Party – have called on women to share happy, “blithe and unapologetic” abortion stories. If women can fake a smile long enough and say they aborted for the most trivial of reasons, perhaps the public will believe that abortion is harmless.
Emma Ayres of Amherst, Massachusetts, recently made such an attempt in a story written for the the Socialist Worker, the official organ of the International Socialist Organization.
After learning she was pregnant, she and her boyfriend “at the time” decided “abortion was the only solution.” "As a junior in college with no fiscal stability, I was in no place to be a mother," she writes.
She was quickly “connected with Planned Parenthood in Springfield,” where her decision to abort was perhaps not surprisingly “supported.”
Ayres writes that she was delighted that “the woman on the phone called it a pregnancy. Not a fetus, or a baby.” She also says she was happy not to be “subjected to the abusive requirement of looking at the ultrasound before the procedure. I was given a choice. I said no.”
Still, she recalls that after her “cold, lubed-up ultrasound,” an abortion facility staffer made small talk by asking what she liked to do. As she lay still and silent, waiting for the suction that would drown out their discussion, she told her: "I am playing Peter Pan. The production opens in two weeks."
Yet she cannot entirely keep up the charade. After the abortion, she writes in staccato phrases: “Didn't know how to feel. Boyfriend drove me home. Felt victorious. Wanted to forget. Feeling still lingers.”
She found in time that she would describe her abortion as “one of the simplest decisions of my life with the most painful aftermaths.” After the abortion, she writes, “I distracted myself from the personal grief” and “claustrophobic depression.”
But then the ideological advocacy returns.
“I dream of the day when letting a professor know 'I had an abortion' is like saying 'I have the flu.'” (She insists, “I am not trying to make this sound casual” but seeking to establish abortion's “normalcy leading to acceptance.”)
Ten days after the abortion, she writes, “I found myself in the Rand Theater, flying over an audience, playing Peter Pan."
Yet none of these things – the abortion and subsequent college play – would have happened unless she enjoyed a constellation of privileges, she writes.
“I am left staring at this list thinking how lucky I am,” she writes. “If these things hadn't lined up, I would have a one-week old child in my arms right now. This thought breaks my heart…I wouldn't have the opportunities that I have now if I had a child.”
Her story – of outward revelry and buried pain – brings sad new poignancy to the lyrics, “I won't grow up.”
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My only disagreement would be in the use of Ba’al, which is a complex origin referring to several pagan gods, almost a generic “lord” instead of a particular pagan god, only some of which involved human sacrifice; instead of L’Moloch, a pagan god clearly associated with child sacrifice for gain, and explained as such in detail.
Linguistically, there could be Ba’al-Moloch, just referring to Moloch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch
But the principle still stands, worshipers of a pagan god that demands hideous and painful child sacrifice in exchange for earthly rewards, prosperity and sexual license.
You mean like, people not wanting to be near you? There are worse things to wish for . . .
Emma you’re your own worst enemy, you just did the worst thing a woman could ever do to herself..
Thanks yefrag..., that was very interesting. it’s true I threw that ancient name out without researching it. I am not really sure where I heard about baal and child sacrifice before, but it could have been on WWCR shortwave back in the early 90’s.
Anyway, here’s an article on the subject that I found that is interesting. Bottom line is that I believe that abortion is a modern form of pagan child sacrifice.
It’s always important to note that it wasn’t child sacrifice just to honor those pagan gods. They were expecting to be handsomely rewarded for it. And this is essential when looking at abortion today, in that there is an expectation of reward for killing their child.
1) Sex as a reward. In those days, sacrifices were accompanied with orgies. Often abortions are so that the woman can continue to “party” and have casual sex.
2) Prosperity as a reward. While they expected bountiful crops and for their herds and flocks to increase, today they sacrifice their children for their “career” and to get promotions.
In Biblical days, there was great contention between those Hebrews who took the long view, who would make acceptable sacrifices and worship YHVH, *not* expecting immediate reward. Instead they saw what they *had* as their reward. That is, do not sacrifice your children, for they are your real reward.
There were always Hebrews and others who couldn’t resist the short term gain, the gamble of sacrificing their child in the hopes of great rewards. Gambling and winning the lottery.
And the Priests of YHVH were very clear on this. Child sacrifice is an abomination worthy of death, and even allowing others to do so, to live on your lands while doing so, was intolerable.
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