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Email a FriendPosted by Monica (momof2) on Wednesday, Jan 18, 2012 7:51 PM (EDT):
When I went to the link I found that the list had even more infuriating “suggestions” on how to pay for the abortion. Wow. It really makes me sick.
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Posted by Rebecca Teti in News on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 5:00 PM
I doubt this audience needs any persuading that women can do better than abortion, but here is some grim evidence anyway.
This is the advice Fund Abortion Now is giving women about how to pay for their abortions.
Some of it is sensible economizing.
Some of it is desperate measures anyone truly poor might take to cover an unexpected expense (pawning goods, volunteering for medical experiments).
But there’s also incitement to lie to and cheat one’s friends and relatives:
Are there people who might not help me cover the cost of an abortion, but would help me cover other costs? Am I comfortable lying to a friend or family member, telling them that I had an unexpectedly high electric bill or gas bill due to heating or A/C costs?
And this:
Can I get a partial refund on my tuition if I drop a class now?
That one really gets me, since we’re often told a girl with an unplanned pregnancy would have to drop her education to have the baby.
I’ve raised this question before, but how does this help, this treating an unplanned pregnancy as a matter so desperate that the woman isn’t strong enough to bear it—and must lie, cheat and otherwise degrade herself to get out of it?
Where is the uplift of women’s dignity—and the sisterhood?
(With a polite nod to @LilaGraceRose on twitter)
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Posted by rose on Wednesday, Jan 18, 2012 9:10 PM (EDT):
You realize this is all in an effort to get abortions covered and funded by healthcare/the government. Look at the link at the bottom of the page. They’re listing these extreme desperate-sounding things to make it seem like abortion, beyond being a woman’s right to choose it, is just as much of a necessity as food and clothing and shelter, and therefore no American should have to be driven to such lengths to pay for it.
Posted by Panda on Wednesday, Jan 18, 2012 9:18 PM (EDT):
I went to the link as well and read the stories some women have shared. It breaks my heart, especially the stories written by married women with children. I am not to judge. I feel for them. May God reach out to all of them in His mercy. May angels work through us to convince at least one women not to kill her child. No. ...I’m not hungry…but our family has run into some financial difficulty with even buying gas & food….but we did not go hungry. I just would like a woman out there to know that God works through family…or even strangers to provide for you. It’s not easy. Life is not easy….just give a human being a chance. Can you imagine if our blessed mother Mary aborted her child? She was engaged to be married and came from a humble background. She was facing possible stoning to death. She faced ostracism from the community. She didn’t know what the future would bring…but she placed herself in the presence of God our provider. Do you know a child usually brings out a smile in most people? A child is a gift from God wrapped in his love. A child holds the secret to God’s kingdom; let us pray that we may be the recipients of such an honor….motherhood.
My personal “favorite”...“Is there an emergency fund at my CHURCH?” The folks that run this site are both immoral and amoral. And how about that sidebar…“Help a Woman Change Her Life: Fund an Abortion.” Please…let me tell “you” about how an abortion changes a woman’s life! Two different college roommates of mine got pregnant and had abortions. One while we were in college…the other not long after we graduated. Today, we are 40+ years old and over the decades I have watched both women’s lives spiral dangerously out of control engaging in dangerous behaviors and/or deep depressions. One was Catholic and left the Church…the other Protestant, but non-practicing. While both women have gone on to have successful careers, neither woman seems to have had successful marriages and/or family life. So very sad. I’ve tried to get one directed to Project Rachel, but she’s resistant. I often pray for both of these women, especially during January. Their actions even deeply affected me. I felt enormous guilt and grief for a long time…one b/c I had introduced her to the man that got her pregnant and the other b/c I had “abandoned” her by refusing to take her to the clinic. *sigh* The ramifications from abortion last a lifetime. JMJ…Pray for Us!
Posted by Sandra on Friday, Jan 20, 2012 1:08 AM (EDT):
I read enough through your article about this idea, so I’m not exploring the link to find out how people fund their abortions. The whole idea is sickening. Just yesterday, I learned of a girl (college age, I think) who is being forced to have an abortion by her mother. The pregnant student wants to have her baby, but her mother, the baby’s grandmother, is trying to force her into it. Where is the freedom of choice here? This happens more often than not. The abortion is scheduled to take place this weekend. Please pray for this girl and her mother and her unborn baby. Jesus we trust in You.
Posted by Mary De Voe on Friday, Jan 20, 2012 8:16 AM (EDT):
The newly begotten child is evidence of a love relationship. Where is the father? Why is he not man enough to acknowledge the fruit of his loins? Nobody, but nobody can be that stupid or that ignorant to discard the only good thing he has ever done or will ever do in his whole life. The father needs to stand up and learn how to be a man to enter into the human race, the human family. Abortion will end the child’s life, but not his immortal soul. An eternity of sorrow for the little one begotten and about to be extinguished by abortion because his father had no courage, no heart, no hope, no future, no destiny for him. A pox on his father forever.
Posted by Mary De Voe on Friday, Jan 20, 2012 8:24 AM (EDT):
Let me add too, a pox on all abortionists, and abortion supporters, forever.
Posted by Mary De Voe on Friday, Jan 20, 2012 3:09 PM (EDT):
Susan B. Anthony laid the blame for women’s misery on the absent male. They beat her jailed her and starved her.
Posted by Rover Serton on Tuesday, Jan 24, 2012 1:30 PM (EDT):
Those suggestions in the article demonstrate how pregnancy is a crisis to poor young women. I see no compassion in these above comments. A woman is trying to make a terrible choice from a terrible position and I hear no suggestion of adoption resources.
So glad I’m not a “christian”.
Posted by Claire on Tuesday, Jan 24, 2012 2:45 PM (EDT):
Maybe you should re-read the comments. There is one who said that she is not going to judge. There are several who have asked for prayers for women in this position. Plenty of compassion here. Everyone on this site is pro-adoption (I myself am an adoptive mother); that goes without saying.
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