After posting below about the unselfishness of my father's generation, I browsed the usual blogs and came across a posting that made me seethe with anger.
Meet Dana L. Like me, Dana is in her 40's, married, has two kids, and is a lawyer. Unlike me, Dana has no compunction about killing her unborn child and blaming the President and religious people for "leaving her no choice" but to kill a baby. Because, after all, "in a sudden rush of passion, [she] failed to insert [her] diaphragm."
It was a decision I am sorry I had to make. It was awful, painful, sickening. But I feel that this administration gave me practically no choice but to have an unwanted abortion because the way it has politicized religion made it well-nigh impossible for me to get emergency contraception that would have prevented the pregnancy in the first place.
No, Dana, what would have prevented the pregnancy in the first place is a little self-restraint and common sense. Please, at your age, to say a "sudden rush of passion" made you - and your husband - forget how babies are made is embarassing and pitiful.
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Well said.
The selfishness and lack of responsibility in that piece is sickening.
But, naturally, her inability to accept the consequences of her actions is Bush's fault. And the religious.
Over in Iraq, falafel vendors are being threatened by Islamic zealots and ice delivery men are being killed (because neither ice nor falafels exsisted in Mohammed's time, and therefore Muslims - or anyone else - shouldn't consume them either), yet Dana is all up in arms because she had to face the prospect of having a child that might interfere with her happy home.
I wonder how her children feel, knowing they could have been as easily destroyed as their brother or sister.
Looks like the Digi-mom just gave a digi-asswhipping to this digi-dumbass.
I give two digi-thumbs up
The sad thing is that this child she aborted probably would've been the only one who would've taken care of her in her old age.
It's always someone else's fault. Dym brings up a good point, the generation that endorsed abortion will have no one to care for them, and they'll be badgered to commit suicide because there's not enough taxpayers to pay for all their medical needs. Chickens coming home to roost.
Dymphna and Jimbob - I think that is an excellent point. You can imagine that these people who have such a sense of entitlement now in their lives such that children are nuisances and inconveniences, will have have that same sense later on and demand someone HAS TO take care of them in their old age . . . but there won't be anyone.
I couldn't even read the second page of the aritcle. If they really didn't want babies at all, why doesn't her husband fix himself or tie her tubes. Too upsetting.
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