Tales of bad parenting: “Abortion saved my child”
by Kelli
Notice that both abortion stories share this same, perverse theme: abortion is a way to “save” my child. Also notice that both women were using birth control and still wound up pregnant. I mention that as an aside, but it’s worth considering in its own right….
The first woman admits that she ended her child’s life — because she couldn’t give her child “everything,” because she couldn’t give her child “a wonderful life,” and because she didn’t want to follow the lead of her own “bad parents.” The second woman maintains that she saved her child by paying to have him or her killed — after determining that is what God wanted her to do. Both women maintain that they are guilt-free, though the first woman says she is heartbroken and the second says she cries because she wishes her child was still with her.
The term “self-fulfilling prophecy” comes to mind. For fear that they will be bad parents, these women killed their children — which is the ultimate expression of bad parenting. Everything else pales by comparison….
I do not fear the impact that “positive” abortion stories will have. Even the positive stories are laced with tragedy, and the more abortion is talked about in the public square, the more apparent it will become that abortion is one of vilest perversions of justice the world has ever known.
~ Michael Spielman, discussing two of the “I don’t regret my abortion” stories he recently received, Abort73.com, December 16
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Love Michael Spielman. You can always count on him for a unique and insightful perspective on the issues.
Those poor women making such a poor choice need a lot of prayers. May they find peace in the Love and Mercy of the One True Lord.
Sounds like the one who thought ‘god wanted her’ to do this was visited by the fallen angel. Shudder!!!
I do not fear any true stories of abortion.
I fear the propaganda tales — like Cece’s confident face in Cosmo. No real details…. just, “It wasn’t a big deal. We talked about it, and it was the right decision for us. I have no regrets.”
That is not a story…. That is an advertisement.
“That is not a story…. That is an advertisement.”
Despite this, there are still people who claim that Planned Parenthood isn’t a business. It’s a crazy world we live in.
Propaganda tales that are really just a bunch of pro-abortion talking points in narrative form will fail. People can tell an advertisement from genuine lived experience. A hollow story devoid of real detail and genuine emotion won’t resonate within the heart of normal people. Recall the lame and narcissistic “abortion selfie video”…the emotionally disconnected abortion activists thought it was really great…so it went viral. But did it change anyone’s position on abortion?
It is easy for a subclinical psychopath to hold a sign that says, “I don’t regret my abortion” or parrot some inane slogan with whipped up gusto. It is another thing altogether to get the emotionally vacant to emote realistically detailing their own story in their own voice. And have it come out sympathetically pro-abortion.
I see a headline similar to this one in the future (except dealing with a fake abortion story): “Discredited Rolling Stone Story Hurts All in Sex-Assault Debate”
Dooming the desired revolution.
My parents gave me absolutely nothing but abuse and terror and have damaged me permanently and irreparably, but I don’t see how killing me would have “saved” anything. The one thing worse than severe abuse is, you know, being murdered.
I’ve missed seeing you in the comments! Thank my un-proven-to-the-atheists God that your’e here now :>). Just like we don’t kill children who survive a war, we ought not to kill children we THINK won’t have a good childhood.
Only children born into the best of circumstances and guaranteed wonderful lives should be born?
The human race would have ceased to exist long before now.
Along with the deaths caused by mothers killing their children to spare them a life of less-than-perfection, expect the ones they allow to live after the last plank of the white picket fence has been added to the perfect 3 bedroom with the 2 car garage and the b.a. of sociology hanging proudly in the living room…expect *those* precious “WANTED AND PLANNED CHILDREN”(tm) to start offing themselves in droves when they get into the real world and realize that-*GASP*-sh** gets difficult sometimes, and outside of abortion, killing others to grease your own life’s wheels is generally frowned upon and disallowed in polite society, so suck-it-up and deal with it, buttercup.
Thanks ninek I misss you too.
Very insightful!!