Posted on 01/02/2016 3:29:34 PM PST by amorphous
In a poignant essay, a Barbados woman confesses the unspeakable: she regrets having aborted her two children.
The 47-year-old unnamed woman wrote, "Each time I hear a child laughing or see children playing, I regret not having any. I truly regret that I did not have at least one child to leave all that I have worked so hard for. It's not easy knowing that as you grow old, and friends pass on, that there is no one there to take care of you if the worst happens."
In today's permissive culture, such an admission is tantamount to heresy. Women are not supposed to regret abortions; they’re supposed to feel liberated.
Admitting she was too young with her first pregnancy (at 17) and not ready to face motherhood alone when her boyfriend abandoned her during her second pregnancy (at 23), the woman now laments the emptiness of her life without children.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Everyday in America, 3,000 more women end the life of their babies. 60 million babies since '73. Even Israel sacrifices its young to the God of convenience.
There’s a whole life between an abortion at 23 and being childless at 47/48. This lady and her friends made a lot of choices in those 25 years.
I wish the anonymous woman the best. From the quotes (a link to the source text would have been helpful), it seems that she may genuinely regret the deaths of those unborn babies, rather than just being sorry for herself now.
Oh, it did have a link. Color wasn’t clear on my monitor.
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So, she doesn't regret killing her children. It's all about self-interest for her.
Not unspeakable in Barbados.
Apparently, it is here; you just don't hear about things like this in the U.S.
Perhaps women want to talk, but they are not being heard because those with an agenda--liberals, MSM, etc.--are drowning their voices out.
She regrets not having a child because she’s lonely now (selfish) but no regrets about the moral implications of perping a couple of murders. Screw her.
Still, this idiot’s regret is focused solely on, “herself”.
Clinical narcissism has been rampant and increasingly so, since the sixties.
It comes from the “esteem” theorists that we conservatives conceded ALL ground and territory to in the schools and the churches.
It’s a broad condition that can be encapsulated in what is happening in the Catholic Church— as an example where anything Catholic is 97% unrecognizable today from what it was for 2000 years. No different from any other block church. Pathetic demise for all.
a small voice speaking twice for two who cannot
I think that her conclusion, that young woman should avoid abortion “at all costs,” perhaps implies that she regrets more than her own middle-aged loneliness. (Maybe she’d like some of my teenagers ...).
Perhaps I’m being overly charitable, but it’s the right time for it.
I don’t care what any woman says, any woman who has an abortion will spend the rest of their lives regretting it, or at least questioning themselves about it.
I agree. A person cannot be unaffected by killing her child. It’s part of the same mindset that insists the sexual encounters that produce the unwanted babies are also as meaningless as a trip to Walmart.
They control what is ALLOWED to be said on the national air waves, which is the only way to reach people nowadays.
Liberal Control of the airwaves needs to be smashed.
"Just feeling sad", she said. And then blurted out the story of her abortion and how her parents said they wouldn't help her. Soooooo sad.
It was probably the anniversary of the day of the abortion. How heavy on her mind and soul.
I hope she found repentance and peace. It’s such a hard world.
Yes, the “studies” are desperate to refute it, but I think you are right. I have heard several women say that the date of a birth that never happened is indelibly etched on their souls and not a year goes by that they don’t pause to remember and probably a lot of days in between are painful, too. The ones I knew were all too young at the time to understand the implications of what they did and under too much pressure from the adults around them. It is so wrong. Their stories need to be told and the ugliness of feticide revealed.
I also agree with quite a few other freepers here that this story is all about the woman and what she now feels deprived of rather than the two human beings that were denied a right to life due directly to her actions. Where is her remorse for them? Something is wrong here. There should be more to the regrets than mourning that you are growing old without heirs or anyone to take care of you. I suspect that it was heavily edited to not reveal the moral struggle.
At Mass yesterday --- Solemnity of the Mother of God--- I was thinking about both continuity and change.
Continuity..Mother of God... Revelation 12.... Ephesus..
Change ... used to be "Feast of the Circumcision" ... so clear about Jesus' emphatic maleness and His emphatic Jewishness and the first shedding of His blood. We are squeamish or silent about this nowadays.
Continuity... the Roman Canon *Eucharistic Prayer #1"... my son Ben remarks, "Linus, Cletus, Clement, Sixtus, what's up with that?" Popes. ... "Agnes, Cecilia, Anastasia, what's up with that?" Martyrs.
Change... there was an O.T. reading, from Numbers... There never were OT readings like that in the Ordo Vetus.... but this was harkening faithfully with Moses' blessings... so is this Continuity or Change?
? ( agree that we lost a lot with the vandalism of the Liturgy, and need to recover it. I do sing with the Latin Choir. I do love the Tradition. Passionately. But I disagree with you that now it's 97% different. Christ is 100% there, and 100% the same. Yesterday, Today, and Forever.... Tagline for you, dear RitaOK, and for all who are dear to you.
Many people pray II Chronicles 7:14 "if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land."
It's one thing to pray, but more important to "turn from wicked ways".
Amen, amorphous. What you said.
It is being accomplished only house by house now, in some small groups, with very little support from the greater Catholic Church.
We are reaching remnant territory.
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