“Teen Mom 2” star defends keeper pregnancy four months after abortion
I panicked — I’d just gotten off heroin, I was very skinny and unhealthy, I wasn’t stable….
But I hope people will see where I was then and where I am now and why I decided it’s OK to keep this baby.
~ Teen Mom 2 star Jenelle Evans, explaining the circumstances involved in her decision to abort her baby while keeping the next baby only four months later, as interviewed by In Touch Weekly, January 29
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You needed help then.
You need help now.
Your first child didn’t have to die for your lack of help and support and hope.
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Hi Carla,
If there was ever a flaming sociopath, its this gal. Hopefully she gets her tubes tied, that’s the best we can hope for. I’ll tell you right now these children will never be anything but objects to her and she will produce them only to satisfy her own needs.
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The abortion industry preys upon the panic and fear of desperate women.
We are very sad, Jenelle, for the mistakes you made — from heroin and sex before you were ready to have a child, then killing your child and more sex before you were ready to be a parent, and for doing all of this in public on a reality TV show.
We are very glad, Jenelle, that you have decided to behave like an adult. We are glad that you have accepted your situation, and accepted help. We hope you will stay on the narrow path to happiness, and grow to be a loving parent and a happy person.
Please tell everyone that aborting your first child was the result of fear and panic and a terrible mistake. Honor your child by helping others to choose life.
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Hi Del,
Just a word to the wise. Sociopaths are master manipulators. She’s very good at making you think she’s decided to behave like an adult. Do not project onto this woman what she has no capacity for. Being a loving parent is something she has no capacity for. Thankfully the oldest boy has his grandmother or he’d be in foster care….or worse. As I said these children are objects to her, to be produced, disposed of, or dumped on others as she sees fit. No one “preyed” on her.
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The abortion wasn’t her first pregnancy. She has a 3 or 4 yr old son whom she has little to do with. He is being raised by her mother, who appears to be only slightly, if at all, more mentally stable than Janelle is.
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Thankfully the oldest boy has his grandmother or he’d be in foster care….or worse.
Mary, there are some absolutely WONDERFUL foster parents out there. Everyone agrees that a permanent home is best for a child, but please don’t be like the MSM and act like foster care is a fate worse than death.
And what do you mean by “or worse?” Are you talking about group homes? Once again, there are some very good group homes run by some very caring people.
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Life circumstances change from month to month sometimes week to week and even day to day but making the life and death decision to abort, taking the life of your unborn baby will NEVER change. One dead one wounded. Abortion hurts women and kills baby. For every abortion to be successful a baby has to die. If she wasn’t pregnant there would be no living baby to kill just a mole or a tumor to remove. In my years in GYNE healthcare never saw a woman grieve after having a tumor removed but I know personally a lot of women (relatives, friends and acquaintances) who grieved after aborting their unborn. Abortion is NOT healthcare, it is the deliberate taking of an precious innocent life.
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I am compelled to hope for the best, even when prudence warns me to fear for the worst.
Yes… the poverty of our culture has produced multi-generations of manipulators (and even sociopaths) who thrive in a state of dependency and welfare. I have these people in my own life. Mostly, it is tragedy.
We have to love these people out of poverty and dependency, one by one. Have you seen Gimme Shelter yet? Jenelle is like Apple. To the world, they look hopeless. And now Jenelle has fallen into the hands of people who hope that she fails spectacularly and ends up making porn.
We have to be the light. Young women like Jenelle may cruise by this blog. They will not find me accusing them of being hopelessly lost.
We want them to connect with a Crisis Pregnancy Center, where they can be loved and cared for and helped. Especially the wicked and lost ones, with a long trail of bad decisions behind them. We can help.
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Hi phillymiss,
Thank you. I stand corrected. Indeed there are many dedicated and loving foster families and we should be very thankful for them, not painting them all with the same brush. I was thinking of his being sent from foster home to foster home, being “lost” in the system, which certainly isn’t always the case.
By “worse” I meant Jenelle and whoever her current baby daddy is will keep the child and neglect and abuse him/her, which I genuinely fear for any child of hers.
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We do love them Del. I do love her.
Our call never changes. Our marching orders never change. We are challenged with speaking the truth in love, to offering hope to the hopeless in times of great need. We are to be a voice for the voiceless and rescue those being led away to slaughter.
Her words disturb me a great deal. Four months ago I was this so I did that. Now it is four months later and I am this and I do this.
I HOPE and PRAY she finds the nearest Rachel’s Vineyard and reaches out for abortion recovery.
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Hi Del,
I understand and respect your compassion and hope for this young woman. I can only tell it as I see it. I fear for any children she keeps, as phillymiss points out they may be far better off in foster care.
My own opinion is that sociopaths are born and their brains are wired a certain way. I respect that others disagree.
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Hi Carla,
I can understand why her words disturb you. This tells you the mindset you are dealing with.
As with Del I understand and respect that you want only the best for Jenelle. I’m telling you this is someone who views her children as nothing more than objects, she has no capacity to do otherwise. She doesn’t regret the abortion, it just wasn’t a good time, that’s all. Now it suits me to have this baby so I’m pregnant again.
My friend your prayers and hope need to be with that child.
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Jenelle said that she was panicked and afraid. Her abortion was a bad decision along a train of many bad decisions. This latest pregnancy is part of that train of bad decisions.
But we hope that letting this child live is the first step toward making good decisions. Yes, she is terribly broken and damaged…. and she has been like this all of her life, so maybe she cannot even imagine what living really means.
She will probably make many more bad decisions along the way. She’s still a kid, and she doesn’t know how to live or make good decisions. I don’t think she has any mentors.
This abortion will follow her through the series. Let’s watch for signs of hope. It will be wonderful if she learns to regret the killing of her child, and seeks healing. Let’s pray that the show follows her through something like Rachel’s Vineyard. Wouldn’t it be wonderful for the world to see how much abortion hurts, and how much love and healing is available for those who will accept it?
The Teen Mom series is a minefield of trauma, publicized to satisfy the schadenfreude of a wicked audience. Let’s pray for mass conversions!
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Praying with you Del.
You know my heart for post abortive women. :)
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Hi Del,
Again, I respect your compassion and perspective. Heed my words and pray for this child.
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Her mother wanted Jenelle to abort her first child Jace. It is all on camera. What will Jace think and feel when he grows up and realizes that his grandmother who raised him wanted him dead before he was born? That his grandmother gave his mother money and drove her to get a medical abortion and kill his younger brother or sister?
What a disturbed family. They really need Christ. Christ can heal all these relationships and make them brand new.
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Carla says:
January 31, 2014 at 11:31 am
Praying with you Del.
You know my heart for post abortive women. :)
I learned from you.
I have always felt for the children whose right and dignity and lives are lost to abortion. I used to believe that the women were villains and killers.
It took me a long time to realize the widespread coercion and abuse that women suffer from boyfriends/parents/employers/society expectations. And then the predatory behavior of the abortion industry, who trap women when they are most frightened and vulnerable. They don’t offer choices. The most common response of post-abortion women: “I felt like I had no other choice.”
Legal abortion creates an environment for the unjust treatment of women. Women are victims too, even the one who believes she is “freely choosing” to end the life of her child.
As pro-lifers, we are work for laws that protect the human rights of the pre-born. But we also have the duty to be the better choice — We must work to provide the safe environment for women to choose life.
Even Government can help us. I believe that government should fund Crisis Pregnancy Centers (and related services, like women’s shelters, genuine pre-natal and postnatal healthcare, adoption services, childcare assistance, etc) in amounts that match or exceed the subsidies handed out to the abortion industry.
Seems fair, right?
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If they government gets involved in funding CPC’s they will get to decide for us how we can “help.”
No thank you.
They are too busy funding Big Abortion.
Like minded folks who want justice for the preborn will rally and support each other. Like we always do.
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Hi Carla,
Good point. If you really want to turn something into a colossal cluster you know what, get the gov’t involved.
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Actually, I agree. It is the government’s job to protect the innocent and establish justice, whereas it is our job to save our culture and provide for the needs of our weaker members.
In a healthy Democracy, we need a smaller and weaker government that can assist us with some funding for our good works, but doesn’t believe that they should have omnipotent control over our operations.
However — the liberals and Democrats believe that government should fund and control every good thing. And they aren’t stepping up to care for the born children. In fact, they often accuse us of failing to step up and care for the born children. We won’t care for the children, and that’s why they have to kill them.
The hypocrisy is dripping from their chins.
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I would advise EVERY pregnancy resource center to run away, as fast as they can, from any governmental funding. Do not take it, period. Carla is right.
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A pregnancy so soon after an abortion is likely an atonement child.
In Missouri, donors to pregnancy resource centers can receive a 50% tax credit. The legislature has authorized up to 2 million dollars in tax credits and are considering 2.5 million. It is not direct government funding but is an incentive for people to contribute.
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MoJoanne,
I seriously doubt this is any kind of atonement baby. More likely its just an object to suit her needs at this time, and she couldn’t care less either way. How will this child be cared for and supported? Likely it hasn’t even crossed her mind.
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I’d be worried about my eternal soul.
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Augustine Thomas,
I can assure you she isn’t.
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As a pro-lifer, I would say that it is in poor taste to be judgmental of this young lady. None of us really know what kind of messages she grew up with from her mom and what is really going on in her heart or head. It would not surprise me if she did decide to get pregnant again on some level because she feels bad about the abortion and wanted a “do over”. Okay, yes, it is possible that the pregnancies keep happening because she is truly just ignorant of contraception options or too impulsive to plan on contraception use, but I think a lot of times women do know what they are doing when they choose to have unprotected sex even if they don’t consciously admit that they did want to get pregnant in some sense.
In any case, I think we should focus on being happy that she did choose not to abort this child.
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