Thread: “Twin reduction”: Our pro-death, vanity abortion culture in a nutshell

Woman Pens Chilling Open Letter to the Baby She Plans On Aborting Later This Week
By Emily Hulsey (5 hours ago)

Three days ago, Reddit user scaredthrowingaway stirred up the internet world with a post titled, “I am getting an abortion next Friday. An open letter to the little life I won’t get to meet.” http://www.reddit.com/user/scaredthrowingaway

The letter reads:

Little Thing:

I can feel you in there. I’ve got twice the appetite and half the energy. It breaks my heart that I don’t feel the enchantment that I’m supposed to feel. I am both sorry and not sorry.

I am sorry that this is goodbye. I’m sad that I’ll never get to meet you. You could have your father’s eyes and my nose and we could make our own traditions, be a family. But, Little Thing, we will meet again. I promise that the next time I see that little blue plus, the next time you are in the same reality as me, I will be ready for you.

Little Thing, I want you to be happy. More than I want good things for myself, I want the best things for the future. That’s why I can’t be your mother right now. I am still growing myself. It wouldn’t be fair to bring a new life into a world where I am still haunted by ghosts of the life I’ve lived. I want you to have all the things I didn’t have when I was a child. I want you to be better than I ever was and more magnificent than I ever could be.

I can’t do to you what was done to me: Plant a seed made of love and spontaneity into a garden, and hope that it will grow on only dreams. Love and spontaneity are beautiful, but they have little merit. And while I have plenty of dreams to go around, dreams are not an effective enough tool for you to build a better tomorrow. I can’t bring you here. Not like this.

I love you, Little Thing, and I wish the circumstances were different. I promise I will see you again, and next time, you can call me Mom.

-h

As you probably expected, the post has generated a massive response from those on both sides.

On one hand, many felt that her decision is a responsible one and shows a realistic understanding of the demands of raising a child. From Blue Nation Review: http://bluenationreview.com/im-getti...t-user-writes/

Three-fourths of women seeking abortions say they can’t afford a child. The same number of women say that, “having a baby would interfere with work, school or the ability to care for dependents; and half say they do not want to be a single parent or are having problems with their husband or partner,” according to the 2005 book Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health.

On the other hand, many were put off not just by the woman’s decision to have an abortion, but by her approach, which they felt was hypocritical. One commenter on the Blaze’s coverage of the story stated: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014...s-shell-abort/

She says she wants her baby to be happy, but what she wants is for that baby to be dead and no longer be a problem for her. There is absolutely nothing noble about abortion.

Many readers brought up adoption as an alternative, and some even offered to adopt the child themselves.

Regardless of one’s stance on abortion, it is a serious issue that shouldn’t be treated lightly.

What do you think about this woman’s decision and the letter she wrote to her unborn child?

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/10/1872...ng-later-week/

Originally Posted by Jolie Rouge

Woman Pens Chilling Open Letter to the Baby She Plans On Aborting Later This Week
By Emily Hulsey (5 hours ago)

Three days ago, Reddit user scaredthrowingaway stirred up the internet world with a post titled, “I am getting an abortion next Friday. An open letter to the little life I won’t get to meet.” http://www.reddit.com/user/scaredthrowingaway

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/10/1872...ng-later-week/

Media Enjoy ‘Heartwarming,’ ‘Powerful’ Letter from Mom to Baby She Will Abort
By Katie Yoder | October 14, 2014

As if we needed more evidence that pro-choice means one choice.

An anonymous Reddit user, scaredthrowingaway, posted to the online news platform a letter to her unborn baby whom she plans to abort. In the note entitled “I am getting an abortion next Friday. An open letter to the little life I won't get to meet,” the young mom wrote, “I am sorry that this is goodbye. I'm sad that I'll never get to meet you.” The media, in typical fashion, celebrated the letter as “heartwarming,” “powerful” and “brave.”

In his response, Jezebel’s Mark Shrayber gushed over the “brave, honest letter.” He explained how, “Even when [abortion is] the right choice, there's can be a lot of pain involved.” http://jezebel.com/woman-writes-brav...ill-1645277207 “Beautiful and heartbreaking,” he concluded.

Similarly, The Huffington Post’s Nina Bahadur deemed the note a “powerful open letter.” And “this Reddit user,” she hyped, “is not alone in wanting to share her abortion story.”

Cosmo’s Lane Moore highlighted the “heartwarming letter” as “an important reminder to people who are anti-abortion of the myriad thoughts and emotions many women experience when preparing for an abortion.”

Pro-lifers, she said, “often accuse women who choose to have abortions of being emotionless robots who have not given any thought to the decision they are making (something anyone with half a brain knows that is untrue).”

After reading the “incredibly brave post,” Blue Nation Review’s Sarah Burris went into attack mode. http://bluenationreview.com/im-getti...t-user-writes/

“The right loves to create a narrative of young girls who want to go to a rock concert on an evening and not give birth so instead they just have a late-term abortion,”

“They like to pretend it’s all selfish women who want to kill a fetus and if they only force women to listen to a heart beat or see a blurry photo of a speck that she’ll somehow be able to afford it, or have the capacity to protect the child from an abusive father.”

But wait. Hasn’t the pro-abortion left just spent months telling us there’s nothing even “difficult” about the choice to abort? http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-gra...rtion-never-im

That the right to abort is “a deeply affirmative value?” http://www.mrc.org/articles/wapo-blo...irmative-value

That ending an innocent life makes a boffo plot line for a sitcom http://newsbusters.org/blogs/katie-y...-topic-sitcoms
and the centerpiece for a date-night romantic comedy? http://newsbusters.org/blogs/katie-y...it-didn-t-help

Pro-lifers were a bit more consistent in their responses, including The Blaze's Billy Hallowell http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014...s-shell-abort/ and LifeNews.com's Steven Ertelt, http://www.lifenews.com/2014/10/10/w...u-next-friday/ who described the letter as “heartbreaking” and “heart-wrenching.”

In response to the myriad shows of support on Reddit, the anonymous mom later posted:

“Thank you, thank you, thank you. It is hard. I feel sick and awful for not wanting something that, at the same time, I want so badly. But I feel better knowing I'm not alone and now that I see it all written out, there's less madness bumping around in my head, which is nice. Thank you, again.”

But, dearest Reddit user, know that there is another choice you can choose – and that you will not be alone, should you choose it: life.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/katie-y...she-will-abort

Originally Posted by from the letter

But, Little Thing, we will meet again. I promise that the next time I see that little blue plus, the next time you are in the same reality as me, I will be ready for you

But like a river ... once this opportunity has passed - it never returns. The child being aborted will never be duplicated. Even if she has other children at a later date, this child will have been forever lost.

This story is so completely absurd, it's almost unbelievable.
But it just shows you hypocritically skewed liberals are.
They want "personhood" granted for chimps.

http://allenbwest.com/2014/10/libera...d-chimpanzees/

but human babies are just a "clump of cells" unless or until the mother deems otherwise ?

Dear Woman Who’s Getting an Abortion Tomorrow
Oct. 16, 2014 12:23pm - Matt Walsh

Dear Friend,

I read your letter.

It was to the unborn child you plan to abort tomorrow. You posted this note anonymously on Reddit for the world to see, so I can’t be sure that you even exist or that your letter was sincere. This could be some kind of sick joke. You could be a pro-choice propagandist, fabricating another story to help get rid of the ‘taboo’ surrounding infanticide. I don’t know. But I’m going to assume, right now, that this is all legitimate. I’m going to speak to you like you are real, like you are really planning to do this, because whether you are or not, everything I’ll say to you also applies to any woman in the same position.

I tried my best over the past week to figure out a way to contact you personally. I guess that was a futile effort to begin with. You didn’t post your name or contact information, which makes sense. The good folks at Reddit are apparently deleting any responses on your thread that don’t consist entirely of “congrats” and “atta girl,” so I couldn’t reach out to you that way, either. I’m left with this as my only option.

Before I go further, I think we should revisit what you wrote. I’m sure you remember, but here it is:

Little Thing:

I can feel you in there. I’ve got twice the appetite and half the energy. It breaks my heart that I don’t feel the enchantment that I’m supposed to feel. I am both sorry and not sorry.

I am sorry that this is goodbye. I’m sad that I’ll never get to meet you. You could have your father’s eyes and my nose and we could make our own traditions, be a family. But, Little Thing, we will meet again. I promise that the next time I see that little blue plus, the next time you are in the same reality as me, I will be ready for you.

Little Thing, I want you to be happy. More than I want good things for myself, I want the best things for the future. That’s why I can’t be your mother right now. I am still growing myself. It wouldn’t be fair to bring a new life into a world where I am still haunted by ghosts of the life I’ve lived. I want you to have all the things I didn’t have when I was a child. I want you to be better than I ever was and more magnificent than I ever could be. I can’t do to you what was done to me: Plant a seed made of love and spontaneity into a garden, and hope that it will grow on only dreams. Love and spontaneity are beautiful, but they have little merit. And while I have plenty of dreams to go around, dreams are not an effective enough tool for you to build a better tomorrow. I can’t bring you here. Not like this.

I love you, Little Thing, and I wish the circumstances were different. I promise I will see you again, and next time, you can call me Mom.

-h

The media has gushed over your abortion vow. In fact, a very dense woman at Cosmopolitan went so far as to call your letter “heartwarming.”

Heartwarming.

Something tells me that your heart doesn’t feel too warm right now.

I felt the sadness and hesitation in your words. The fact that you published it in the first place proves that you are not completely sure about what you are planning to do. I think you want to be talked up or talked down. You want to hear what people have to say about it, which is the only reason anyone ever posts personal things on the internet.

I felt the uneasiness.

I felt the sense of loss.

I felt the desperation.

And I felt the love.

I did. I really did.

You love your child. You want your child to be happy. You said that yourself, and I believe you.

But this is not the way, friend. This is not the way.

Who am I to say this to you? Nobody, really. I’m nobody. I’m nothing. But your child is someone. You child is something. Your child is real and he is here and he is itching to meet you and thank you for giving him life. A life that he will only have once and never again.

If you want your baby to have what you didn’t have and feel the joy that you never felt, now is the time to hand him that gift. Now is the only time. There will not be another. You said that you cannot be the baby’s mother right now, but you are the baby’s mother right now. There is only now, friend, and this is a moment that will never be repeated. You can choose death or choose life, but there will not be a redo or a second chance. This is it. This is everything.

You can have other kids, but you will never have this one again. This one, with her vast potential and incredible promise. She is here now, she is living now, and there is a place in this world for her.

I’m sorry that I keep switching between “her” and “him.” You didn’t mention the gender — I guess you don’t know — so I’m using whatever pronouns are necessary just to avoid calling it “it.” It’s not an “it,” it’s so much more than that. She or he is a human being, and as you said, the two of you share a reality. And that is a reality that can never be improved by the death of the child you love. There is no way that your life or anyone’s life could be made better by killing the innocent. It’s impossible.

( continues ... )

I know some other Reddit users commented and told you that you won’t regret this decision. They are lying to you. Don’t listen to them. Listen to your heart. The same heart that prompted you to write that letter and feel those thing for your child. Listen to it, not the broken and deceitful masses who want to claim your baby’s death as a victory for their side of an argument. Your little one is just a pawn to them. They don’t love him like you do. They don’t love him at all. But down to the very pit of your soul you feel something for your baby that you’ve never felt for anyone.

Trust that feeling.

Oh, there’s fear there, sure. That’s part of it — so is the panic, the uncertainty. I’m not discounting any of that, but I am saying that extinguishing the life in your womb will not defeat the fear or settle your anxious mind. This is not a solution, I promise you. There is not a single thing that can be made better, nor a single problem that can be solved, by aborting your baby.

Yes, it’s true that I’m a man so I cannot fully understand what it means to carry a child to term. I watched my wife go through a tough and physically taxing pregnancy, and I’ve never felt so helpless or useless in my life. I don’t know why the Lord saw fit to give the cross of pregnancy to women rather than men, but I can only assume that it’s because women are stronger and more patient. I know this is true in my wife’s case, and I know it is true in yours. You have the power to make it through this, all the way to the end, and that is a decision that you will never regret.



.
OK, I know we don’t have much time so I think I should stop rambling and get down to business. I mentioned your story on Facebook last week and asked if any of my Facebook friends could offer resources to help you. Well, they gave more than that. Numerous people came forward offering to adopt your child. These are real people who are eager to open up their homes and their hearts to your beautiful little one. If you email me (MattWalsh@TheMattWalshBlog.com), I can put you in touch with them.

Otherwise, there are hundreds of wonderful organizations out there that will help you make an adoption plan for your child. I don’t know where you live or which organization you would prefer, but I plugged “place a child for adoption” into Google and instantly found dozens of great options.

Maybe you can tell that I’m not an expert when it comes to dealing with women in the midst of crisis pregnancies. I might be saying and doing all of the wrong things here. I don’t know. Luckily, there are people out there who are far better equipped. Check out this link with contact information for various pregnancy centers that are dedicated to providing necessary services to women in your situation. There is help out there. You don’t have to go through this alone. Check these links. Send me an email. If you’re worried about maternity expenses, there are people and charities who can help you with that.

An abortion clinic will take your child’s life and kick you out the door. But pregnancy centers and Christian charities will walk with you, step by step, and never leave your side. There are tons of places like that, but here’s a good place to start.

You do not deserve harsh judgment or scorn from anyone if you aren’t ready to raise a child. There is no shame in placing your child for adoption. Quite the opposite — it would be truly heroic and admirable for you to make the choice to give your baby to a family that is prepared to care for him. Your child can still have a good life. It isn’t too late. He can still live. He can still be happy. There are families out there who want so badly to embrace him and make sure that he has the life he deserves — a life of hope and joy and love. That’s the life you want him to have, and you can still give it to him.

Listen, think past tomorrow. Think about a few months from now. A few years from now. Think about the future. If you abort your baby, it will be a future in a world utterly deprived of her presence. She will be gone. She will not exist. There will be a great, painful void. Where there should have been her laughter, there will be silence. She will be missing from everywhere, never to walk the Earth. You could search every corner and crevice of the universe, and she will not be there. In her place will be an absence, an emptiness, only a dream of what could have been.

Or.

Or it can be a future blessed by her life. It can be a world shaped, in whatever way, small or large, by her actions and her choices. Where there could have been silence, there can be her voice. Where there could have been a void, there she will be. And even if she is in the care of another family, you can always know that she is out there, she is living, and all of her successes, her joys, all of the people she touches, all of the good she does on this planet — it will all be thanks to you, thanks to the decision that you made. No matter where she goes and what she does, she will be yours. She will be a part of you, and you will be a part of her.

Think about that future.

Just think about it.

You don’t have to go through with this tomorrow. It’s such a tragic irony that the people who support abortion call it ‘pro-choice,’ yet so often, the women who get abortions do so because they feel they have no choice.

So what I’m saying, friend, is that you do have a choice. There is another way.

I don’t expect to convince you with this letter. I only want to give you a few things to consider. So rather than showing up for your appointment at the clinic tomorrow, hold off. Step back. Go for a walk. Take a drive.

Think about the future.

Think about your little one.

There is still time to change your mind.

You still have a choice.

Please, give your child a chance. Choose life.

Sincerely,

A fellow parent

http://www.theblaze.com/contribution...tion-tomorrow/

Actress Ellen Barkin: ‘Fetuses,’ ‘Infants’ Not People Because They ‘Cannot Talk’
By Katie Yoder | November 8, 2014

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/katie-y...se-cannot-talk

U.S. appeals court upholds restrictive Texas abortion law

AUSTIN, Texas - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld the main provisions of a restrictive Texas abortion law including one requiring clinics to have certain hospital-grade facilities, a regulatory hurdle critics said was designed to shut down abortion providers.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in New Orleans, permitted the 2013 law to be applied across the state, although it exempted the application of some provisions to a clinic in the southern city of McAllen. The exemptions had been granted by a lower court on the grounds that its distance from other clinics could cause an undue burden on women in that area.

In its decision, the court said the state's measures were intended to protect women's health.

Under the "ambulatory surgical center" requirement, clinics must meet a set of building standards ranging from widening halls to having facilities for certain surgeries.

Texas, the largest Republican-controlled U.S. state, has been at the forefront of advancing regulations restricting access to abortion.

Abortion opponents welcomed the ruling. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, said the decision would protect women from substandard abortion facilities. "I am proud to have both supported this law in the legislature and defended it in the courts," Paxton said.

Abortion rights advocates have said such requirements are unnecessary, especially when an abortion is medically induced rather than performed through surgery. "Once again, women across the state of Texas face the near total elimination of safe and legal options for ending a pregnancy, and the denial of their constitutional rights," said Nancy Northup, president and chief executive of the Center for Reproductive Rights.

The court overturned large parts of an August decision by U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel, who said the ambulatory center requirement was unjust and had no compelling public health interest.

Before the law went into effect, there were about 40 licensed abortion facilities in Texas, a state of about 27 million people. That clinic number is expected to drop to about eight with the ambulatory surgical center requirement in effect, Yeakel cited evidence as saying.

The law also requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles (50 kms) of their clinics.

The Texas Hospital Association, representing more than 400 hospitals, called the requirement unnecessary because women experiencing abortion complications can go to an emergency room to be treated, and did not need their abortion doctor hospital staff for this to happen.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-...d=ansnewsreu11

Supreme Court blocks Texas abortion-clinic rules
Published June 29, 2015

The Supreme Court acted Monday to keep Texas' 19 abortion clinics open, amid a legal fight that threatens to close more than half of them.

The justices voted 5-4 to grant an emergency appeal from the clinics after a federal appeals court upheld new clinic regulations and refused to keep them on hold while the clinics appealed to the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court order will remain in effect at least until the court decides whether to hear the clinics' appeal of the lower court ruling, not before the fall.

The court's decision to block the regulations is a strong indication that the justices will hear the full appeal, which could be the biggest abortion case at the Supreme Court in nearly 25 years.

If the court steps in, the hearing and the eventual ruling would come amid the 2016 presidential campaign.

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas would have allowed the state to move ahead with regulations requiring abortion facilities to be constructed like surgical centers. Doctors at all clinics also would be required to have admitting privileges at a local hospital.


The clinics said enforcing the new regulations would lead to a second major wave of clinic closures statewide since the law was enacted in 2013. Texas had 41 abortion clinics in 2012; 19 remain.

The admitting privileges requirement already is in effect in much of the state. Stephanie Toti, a lawyer for the Center for Reproductive Rights who is representing the clinics, said some clinics that closed because doctors lacked admitting privileges might be able to reopen.

While the clinic operators said they were relieved by the court's action, supporters of the state law criticized the order. "Women and babies are being denied protections with the Supreme Court blocking pro-life legislation," said Lila Rose, president of Live Action, an anti-abortion advocacy group.

The regulations would have left the state with no clinic west of San Antonio. Only one would have been able to operate on a limited basis in the Rio Grande Valley.

The Supreme Court also is weighing an appeal from Mississippi, which is seeking to enforce an admitting privileges requirement that would close the last abortion clinic in the state. A different three-judge panel of the same federal appeals court, the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, has blocked the Mississippi law.

In November 2013, Justice Stephen Breyer wrote that four justices probably would want to review the constitutionality of the Texas regulations. Last year, the high court prevented enforcement while the case was on appeal to the 5th Circuit.

Backers of the regulations say they are common-sense measures intended to protect women. Abortion rights groups say the regulations have only one aim: to make it harder, if not impossible, for women to get abortions in Texas.

The case could be attractive to the justices because it might allow them to give more definition to the key phrase from their last big abortion ruling, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, in 1992. States generally can regulate abortion unless doing so places "an undue burden" on a woman's right to get an abortion.

Monday was the 23rd anniversary of the Casey ruling.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015...-clinic-rules/