When Abortion Suddenly Stopped Making Sense

nationalreview.com ^ | January 22, 2016 | Frederica Mathewes-Green Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430152/abortion-roe-v

[Arthur McGowan]

Try Yiddish.

[originalbuckeye]

I am a child of the 60’s. I was a Feminist (as were all my college friends) UNTIL I realized that Feminists weren’t supportive of all women, just Liberal ones. I had friends who had abortions in the70’s and I was always supportive of them. But there was a nagging doubt in my head. The ease of availability of abortion meant that no girl/woman would have to admit she was sleeping with guys. But having gone into a medical field that dealt with reproductive issues, I learned that a child is fully developed by 12 weeks in the womb. It was hard to reconcile the dichotomy of ‘just a blob of tissue’ with a nascent, forming human being. In my work history, I did 2 years at Planned Parenthood. And let me tell you, they NEVER counsel a woman to go through with the pregnancy. There’s no money in that. And the last straw fro me was when I read the 14th Amendment and could find NO PLACE THAT ALLOWED ABORTION. There was never any justification for abortion, but accepting it was a popular trend in the 60-70’s. Women should really acknowledge that they are killing a baby.....no more ‘fetus’ talk. You are carrying a baby and you are thinking about killing it. Period. Most of my friends have gone through this same epiphany, as children of the 60’s. Lord forgive them/us for they/we didn’t realize the implication of their/our actions.

[Twinkie]

When they first started talking about abortion; it was
touted as being a “safe and rare” solution NOT for birth
control. However, we all know that BIRTH CONTROL is ALL it
is. I was just a kid myself when they started talking about
“legalizing” it. - I had a son at 19; then three years
later had a miscarriage when pretty far along; then a year
later I had a Down Syndrome baby who died after surgery
for a blockage at six weeks. - I would hope I wouldn’t have
chosen to abort him even if I’d been told I could in order
to have a “perfect” baby. He WAS perfect! This idea of
getting shed of anything that “embarrases” us is STUPID.
EVERYONE has a right to live! - I didn’t risk having
any more children as my husband had temporarily thrown me
away when he met a woman at work who was a “paragon of
perfection”. I begged him to stay with me as our son was
only 8 yrs. old at the time and I had no idea how I would
make it alone. - He used to go over to her apartment when
he was supposed to be at work and belly up to her nasty
table and suck down a stinking tv dinner because she was
“too good” to cook and swill down a beer with her when his
parents were teetotalers and wouldn’t have put up with her.
If I had put a tv dinner down in front of him; ;he would
have pitched a fit. - I don’t know where the woman is now.
She’s as OLD as I am and I imagine she has had a few
lessons in life over the years if some woman hasn’t shot
her before this.

[workerbee]

Excellent article, thank you. So many truths here, many that some pro-lifers can't accept or empathize with -- far simpler to call every woman a whore, a man-hater, blood-thirsty, any manner of vulgar pejoratives.

[philman_36]

The same thing goes for the human animal.

If she sees humans as nothing more than animals it's a wonder that she ever changed her view on abortion.

[JudgemAll]

woman who had had an abortion told me, “Everyone around me was saying they would ‘be there for me’ if I had the abortion, but no one said they’d ‘be there for me’ if I had the baby.”

Just as I said before, women have no choice because no one is supporting the pregnancy. If a woman decides to abort while she is getting the support, then it is indeed her choice, but up until now women have been forced by economic pressure to abort.

[Celtic Conservative]

Schmuck? Schmendrick? Schmeckel?Putz? Meshuginah?

CC

[Bodega]

Yes, very moving and true.

[JudgemAll]

It is a darkness putting a wall of connectedness between mother and child, one of the most natural one. It is no wonder we suffer terrorism these days while Obama shrugs at it. Hate is all over the place, there is no connectedness, no reason to have family meetings or holidays of any sorts (starting with Christmas on out) as a moment of reckoning - all are antisocials desperately clinging on a few internet bytes of bandwidth as a life support tube or umbilical chord for what was once done without technology but a heart.

The mindless communist robot , this dumb Martha of the Bible who obsessed about cleaning the house and doing a job without minding the Guest of guests, yeah, that is what we inherit with evil incarnate: compuslive retarded workers of the communists, who “unite” by being compartmentalized like in a prison, except it is a prison they enforce on themselves in their own lobotomized minds.

[Chickensoup]

Followed Matthews-Green in the nineties, her book Facing East was wonderful. She also wrote for several periodicals IIRC.

This is the first thing I have seen from her in a while.

Thanks

[Mrs. Don-o]

I guess "Turkey" will have to do.

I've heard the phrase "Snake mean and turkey stupid," but Dolan's not that. He's just a schlump. And a Oysshteler. That's it! When looking for fine distinctions, variations and gradations r in terms to express the shortcomings of one's fellow man, recourse of Yiddish always helps.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

I don’t know this for a fact but it’s been suggested that this song was written by Emmylou Harris in effect to a baby that she had aborted. Maybe that’s the intended meaning - if so it’s a very powerful message.

“My Baby Needs A Shepherd” - Emmylou Harris

My baby needs a shepherd
She’s lost out on the hill
Too late I tried to call her
When the night was cold and still
And I tell myself I’ll find her
But I know I never will
My baby needs a sheperd
She’s lost out on the hill

My baby needs an angel
She never learned to fly
She’ll not reach sanctuary
Just by looking to the sky
I guess I could have carried her
But I didn’t even try
My baby needs an angel
She never learned to fly

Oh I ran so far through a broken land
I was following that drummer
Beating in a different band
And somewhere on the highway
I let go of her hand
Now she’s gone forever
Like her footprints in the sand

Toora loora loora lo
First the seed and then the rose
Toora loora loora li
My kingdom for a lullaby

My baby needs a pilot
She has no magic wand
To help her part the troubled waters
Of the Rubicon
But in my soul I know she’ll
Have to go this one alone
After all that is only way she’s ever known

But there is no lamp in all this dark
That could chase away her shadow
From the corners of my heart
I pray she’s ride a dolphin
But she’s swimming with the shark
Out where none can save her
Not even Noah and his ark

Toora loora loora lo
To the cradle comes the crow
Toora loora loora li
My kingdom for a lullaby

My baby needs a mother
To love her till the end
Up every rugged mountain
And down every road that bends
Sometimes I hear her cryin’
But I guess it’s just the wind
My baby needs a mother
To love her till the end

[Mrs. Don-o]

You beat me to it!

#31.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Mathewes-Green certainly does NOT see human beings as "nothing more than animals." Your are grossly over-generalizing and over-globalizing a single, common phrase.

And quite the contrary, she has a strongly spiritual perspective on human beings.

[S.O.S121.500]

-“A woman’s first right is the right to be born”-

[exit82]

Thanks for sharing your story,Twinkie.

The loss of a child at six weeks must have been so hard to bear.

Then the betrayal of your husband.

You are a very strong woman.

[Celtic Conservative]

It was not intentional.

The goy says “shalom”.

CC

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Thanks for posting this. I passed it along in email.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Shalom right back atcha!

[Ditter]

I have been over on FaceBook today, reading some of the pro abortion threads. Someone should put this over there for the pro aborts to read. It might change a mind or 2.

My husband and I could not have children so we adopted .3 infants. I am so grateful for those 3 lives, thankful that they were not aborted before I found them.