Posted on 07/16/2007 12:45:26 PM PDT by finnman69
TWO weeks after my husband and I quit our jobs, gave up our Brooklyn apartment and moved to Mexico to travel and work as freelance reporters, I discovered I was pregnant. Among the subjects I hoped to write about in Mexico was its restrictive abortion laws. Now I was contemplating an abortion myself.
Even though my period was 10 days late, it hadn’t occurred to me that I could be pregnant. I’d had late periods before. I took a home pregnancy test on a whim.
When the telltale plus sign flashed solid, I stared at it in disbelief. I had always used birth control, and the previous month had been such a flurry of packing and goodbye parties that I couldn’t even remember when we’d had sex.
As New York-based journalists, David and I decided to move to Mexico to learn Spanish and break into international reporting. David had spent more than a decade toiling as a correspondent for Reuters. Mexico was his break, his chance to rethink his career and perhaps write a book. For me, it would be an opportunity to shift from writing for local newspapers to covering international stories for national publications.
Now, living in Michoacán, a Mexican state with a serious drug war (decapitated heads had recently rolled into a nightclub in nearby Uruapan), we had no income, no permanent home and only vague plans.
Those plans included exploring Mexico’s teeming cities and hiking through its southern jungles, not scheduling ultrasounds and attending birthing classes. We didn’t yet have a map of the area, much less an obstetrician.
“We don’t have to keep it,” I told David.
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The spoiler is she 'decided' to have the baby, but somehow reading this, I get an icky feeling.It's in the Fashion & Style section in the 'Modern Love' column as if not aborting your baby is a modern concept.
One day the child will likely read this.
Nice graphic by the way, NOT
FYI, she's a Huffington Post blogger.
Remarkable. A pro-life article in Putz Sulzberger’s New York Fishwrap.
That said, for whatever reason, I’m glad they decided to have their child.
Sad commentary on people today that they would refer to "keeping it" as though they'd thought of purchasing a puppy and felt if "it" didn't work out, they could always return "it" where "it" they'd purchased "it."
Too bad, they're referring to a living human being, existing in the same state that they themselves had once been.
It is simply terrifying that this woman would feel that she could write about this in a public forum, for the entire world to see - and that includes all her relatives. And the New York Times to print that - what ever happened to news that’s fit to print?
I think my parents still think of me as "it".
;-)
What a chilling story of selfishness and how “modern” people think. I wonder what they will do it “it” once “it” is born. I feel sorry for their parents if they become old and inconvenient.
These people are disgusting.
Talk about selfish - willing to dispose of a human life so you can drink tequila and hang out in mexico? .
Whatever happened to responsibility and caring for something greater than yourself?
“I’m pregnant,” I blurted. “Oh my God!” she shrieked. “This is the best birthday present you could have ever given me!” “No, no, no,” I said. “This isn’t good. We can’t have this baby.” “Oh, you have to!” “The timing’s terrible,” I insisted. “We just got here. We’re living on savings. I can’t be pregnant here.” “You might have to come back and David might have to get a job, but you’re the perfect age. You can take time off. Oh, you have to have this baby. Besides, what if you can never get pregnant again?” She told me of a married friend who aborted a baby because the timing was wrong. Years later, when the timing was right, she and her husband couldn’t conceive. Nov. 20 was also my mother’s birthday. My mother has always been calm under fire, a voice of reason. I called, barely considering how she might respond. I was too absorbed by my own situation to remember that she’d been pressing my sister for a grandchild for months.
Part of the disposable world we live in.
Liberals would have it as easy to have an abortion as get a new cellphone.
Yup. Good job, Momma.
Unintentionally revealing.
Man, and a woman.
Which one’s all for the abortion, and which one’s conflicted?
Yeppers.
This is why the notion that women are all bloodthirsty proaborts is a misconception.
It ain't that complicated, Darlin
I noticed ‘Dad’ seemed to have big issues.
I find it interesting that this woman started from the talking points and advanced, through time and her own thoughts, to a reasonable point of view. It is dismaying, of course, that she was so clueless in the beginning, but quite heartening that she was able to grow.
It boggles the mind that somebody can be 29 years old and have to use Google to find out what to think about abortion, but that is the age in which we live. At least she relied on her (very wise) Mother, who gave her good advice.
The idea that abortion advances feminism will one day be seen as absolutely incomprehensible. That day is still a long way off, though.
It? like an old pair of shoes?
Sickening....
What a selfish insufferable bee-yotch.
She doesn’t deserve a kid.
Poor child with a memememememe mommy like this one.
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Goodness, we just can't have that, now, can we?
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