Posted on 05/09/2024 1:14:59 PM PDT by Morgana
A month ago, my husband and I went away for a weekend break. The hotel we were staying in had organised an Easter egg hunt for the excited junior guests, and watching the delight on one little girl's face caused a familiar, terrible cascade of emotion. A torrent of grief and regret, which I struggled to hide.
It was the little girl's age that provoked it. She was seven, as I discovered when she told the receptionist while we waited to check in behind her family.
The same age my daughter would be now — had I not had the termination which ended my chance of ever having a child.
Plenty of women terminate accidental pregnancies, of course, and either go on to regret it or never give it a second thought. But this was no accident. The pregnancy I ended happened as a result of IVF.
What's more — and worse I suppose if that were possible — is that I blame my husband for it all. It is his fault I will never have a child like that lovely little girl. How did I get myself into this situation in my life, where I am married to a man who I both love with all my heart and resent to the point of fury?
Alex and I are both 47 and met at university. We spent our 20s and early 30s working abroad, producing documentaries, and, at that point, both wanted a family. During half-hearted discussions, we agreed that we'd start one in our mid-30s and so, after my 36th birthday, we started trying.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
A creepy story on many levels.
*sigh*... one day scientists will figure out what causes pregnancy, and ways to avoid it.
Expect to read more about how women suffer when they don’t have total abortion control. The GOP and Trump are about to be slaughtered this November.
Creepy is correct. She should have taken her baby and left that guy.
Stopped reading right there. Unless he marched you in there at gunpoint he didn't make you do anything.
You know that word that leftists love to throw around regarding abortion, CHOICE?
You chose. YOU did that. Now you must live with your CHOICE.
I know so-called conservative women who are out and proud pro abortion ... but when they get a good drunk on and the real emotions come out they cry their hearts out over the babies they aborted.
Lots of anonymous women out there with similar stories who have had abortions.
A low ball number is 22% of the population and some credible experts put the number as high as one in three.
Tons of emotionally damaged women who are coping with their decisions. Some simply suppress their memories and become very uncomfortable when the issue is forced on them., while others become abortion zealots to excuse and justify their actions.
What does that have to do with the story?
In reality, she and her his and destroyed three human lives. She kids herself that she is with him because he’s a loving and compassionate man. He’s evil and she’s dependent on him.
They will forever be miserable no matter how many articles she writes. I do agree with her that the fertility egg donor/surrogacy business is thriving and spewing lies. There’s very little over site.
What a lame excuse for an abortion.
By making many different kinds of birth control available ... oh wait
No, there probably aren't a lot of women who went through IVF using an egg that wasn't hers and sperm that wasn't her husband's and then had an abortion.
That's unusual and, as others have observed, creepy.
They both wanted a baby until one of them didn’t. It sounds like the husband is a selfish jerk, or maybe he just gave her a lame excuse because he thought she might not be a good mother.
Post-modern, woke people being selfish and confused. Its Satan's playground.
Her hubby can’t do what she said, she did ut period!
Assuming this is about a british woman, since American women don’t become ‘mums’, generally... They become moms or mommys or mothers. Therefore, this article isn’t relevant to politics here in the USA.
She says that so casually ... no big deal! It's only killing a baby. Plenty of women do it.
Kind of impeaches her testimony.
Flaky people and creepy woman.
Did you read the whole article? I recommend it, but be warned: the whole situation is Creep Factor 9.
Also, The Wall is undefeated.
What you say is an injured ego problem and helps a person understand why a person would “identify “ as a cat owner.
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