Rebirth flame Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 Ok... Before you read any further, I have to put a disclaimer here. The story that I'm going to put up here is very disturbing. It is about "selective" abortions, which is the nice term for aborting 1 or more babies in the womb, but leaving another baby alive. It really made me sick to my stomach. A friend of mine had shown me this article, so i decided to post it so that we can really truly see what is going on in our society... ugh... Please read it and post comments... [quote][b]When One Is Enough[/b] By AMY RICHARDS as told to AMY BARRETT (from the July 18th New York Times) I grew up in a working-class family in Pennsylvania not knowing my father. I have never missed not having him. I firmly believe that, but for much of my life I felt that what I probably would have gained was economic security and with that societal security. Growing up with a single mother, I was always buying into the myth that I was going to be seduced in the back of a pickup truck and become pregnant when I was 16. I had friends when I was in school who were helping to rear nieces and nephews, because their siblings, who were not much older, were having babies. I had friends from all over the class spectrum: I saw the nieces and nephews on the one hand and country-club memberships and station wagons on the other. I felt I was in the middle. I had this fear: What would it take for me to just slip? Now I'm 34. My boyfriend, Peter, and I have been together three years. I'm old enough to presume that I wasn't going to have an easy time becoming pregnant. I was tired of being on the pill, because it made me moody. Before I went off it, Peter and I talked about what would happen if I became pregnant, and we both agreed that we would have the child. I found out I was having triplets when I went to my obstetrician. The doctor had just finished telling me I was going to have a low-risk pregnancy. She turned on the sonogram machine. There was a long pause, then she said, ''Are you sure you didn't take fertility drugs?'' I said, ''I'm positive.'' Peter and I were very shocked when she said there were three. ''You know, this changes everything,'' she said. ''You'll have to see a specialist.'' My immediate response was, I cannot have triplets. I was not married; I lived in a five-story walk-up in the East Village; I worked freelance; and I would have to go on bed rest in March. I lecture at colleges, and my biggest months are March and April. I would have to give up my main income for the rest of the year. There was a part of me that was sure I could work around that. But it was a matter of, Do I want to? I looked at Peter and asked the doctor: ''Is it possible to get rid of one of them? Or two of them?'' The obstetrician wasn't an expert in selective reduction, but she knew that with a shot of potassium chloride you could eliminate one or more. Having felt physically fine up to this point, I got on the subway afterward, and all of a sudden, I felt ill. I didn't want to eat anything. What I was going through seemed like a very unnatural experience. On the subway, Peter asked, ''Shouldn't we consider having triplets?'' And I had this adverse reaction: ''This is why they say it's the woman's choice, because you think I could just carry triplets. That's easy for you to say, but I'd have to give up my life.'' Not only would I have to be on bed rest at 20 weeks, I wouldn't be able to fly after 15. I was already at eight weeks. When I found out about the triplets, I felt like: It's not the back of a pickup at 16, but now I'm going to have to move to Staten Island. I'll never leave my house because I'll have to care for these children. I'll have to start shopping only at Costco and buying big jars of mayonnaise. Even in my moments of thinking about having three, I don't think that deep down I was ever considering it. The specialist called me back at 10 p.m. I had just finished watching a Boston Pops concert at Symphony Hall. As everybody burst into applause, I watched my cellphone vibrating, grabbed it and ran into the lobby. He told me that he does a detailed sonogram before doing a selective reduction to see if one fetus appears to be struggling. The procedure involves a shot of potassium chloride to the heart of the fetus. There are a lot more complications when a woman carries multiples. And so, from the doctor's perspective, it's a matter of trying to save the woman this trauma. After I talked to the specialist, I told Peter, ''That's what I'm going to do.'' He replied, ''What we're going to do.'' He respected what I was going through, but at a certain point, he felt that this was a decision we were making. I agreed. When we saw the specialist, we found out that I was carrying identical twins and a stand alone. My doctors thought the stand alone was three days older. There was something psychologically comforting about that, since I wanted to have just one. Before the procedure, I was focused on relaxing. But Peter was staring at the sonogram screen thinking: Oh, my gosh, there are three heartbeats. I can't believe we're about to make two disappear. The doctor came in, and then Peter was asked to leave. I said, ''Can Peter stay?'' The doctor said no. I know Peter was offended by that. Two days after the procedure, smells no longer set me off and I no longer wanted to eat nothing but sour-apple gum. I went on to have a pretty seamless pregnancy. But I had a recurring feeling that this was going to come back and haunt me. Was I going to have a stillbirth or miscarry late in my pregnancy? I had a boy, and everything is fine. But thinking about becoming pregnant again is terrifying. Am I going to have quintuplets? I would do the same thing if I had triplets again, but if I had twins, I would probably have twins. Then again, I don't know. [/quote] After reading that, look at these new pictures coming from England. These are taken with the new 4D ultrasounds: [url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3846525.stm"]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3846525.stm[/url] Peace and God Bless you! ~nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Adam Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 disturbing is an understatement :'( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebirth flame Posted July 24, 2004 Author Share Posted July 24, 2004 it is just so sad to me to see that this is how our society thinks it has to operate... and even with all the ultrasounds and pictures showing that clearly the child is alive, they still degrade the wonderful Gift of Life that is given to us! ...i can't stand abortion... God Bless those people who support abortion with all of their time and money... Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and at the hour of our death... Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us... St. Joseph, pray for us... God Bless ~nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moosey Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 I'd do anything for my children. I'd have 5 at once. That'd be cool... But it makes me so upset to think of how the baby would feel if he/she were able to conprehend whats going on. To know that he/she is not wanted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DancesforLove Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 OMG That wants to make me cry!! That is beyond disgusting, morbid, horid, I don't think there is a word to describe that. I would never have any type of abortion to start with but after seeing the ultrasound how could you? that is coldblooded murder you see that it's not just a fetus its a real baby. UGH Horrible! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Adam Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 (edited) Hitler: "....not fully human...." Rawanda: "....not really humans...." America: "....not really humans..." Genocide: Satan's answer to life. Edited July 24, 2004 by Brother Adam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 Can you imagine being the sibling of the aborted baby? Sorta makes you question how much your parents really want you... it was sort of a toss up as to which babies would be born and which wouldn't... (btw, I didn't read the article yet-- hsdaughter is over my shoulder) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azaelia Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 People like that are too selfish to raise children... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DancesforLove Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 Hey I am completely against abortion but hitler is satans spawn ok. He killed unborn children but that was the least of the things he did! He killed members of my family and race. I hate him! Sorry but I had to say that. btw you left out Suddam and Udah on that list, they are even more sick and twisted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 As I was reading this, I thought, "oh, it's going to have a happy ending... they're going to change their minds..." but they pretty much looked the twins in the eye and said, "we don't want you, you don't count. See ya!" Very, very sad... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littleflower+JMJ Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 you know theres another story about a lady who had an abortion and she didn't know she was having twins, and she gave birth to her daughter 3 months after...... now her daughter and her are pro-life speakers and she has since forgiven her mom for killing her brother you can read the article [url="http://www.prolife.com/SARAH2.HTML"]HERE[/url] but that article above is just sad--SAD!!! in this day of age, where we can calmly kill our children in the womb, i can only think of the Divine Mercy prayer and cry......... [b]For the sake of His Sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.[/b] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmotherofpirl Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 Bleep! Bleep Bleep! May God have mercy on her soul. :angry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilovechrist Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 wow... that's much more than disturbing.. its undescribable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zwergel88 Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 oh, that was just so sad, I can't imagine what the surviving child will think of it's mother for killing it's siblings. I thought that they would change their mind also. It's just so strange that they made that decision, I wonder why they didn't consider adoption or something, it just seems so selfish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colleen Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 [quote]I'll have to start shopping only at Costco and buying big jars of mayonnaise. [/quote] <sarcasm>Oh, the horror!</sarcasm> :angry: That is utterly disgusting and selfish. How . . . can people do something like that? It makes me sick. [quote]I can't imagine what the surviving child will think of it's mother for killing it's siblings.[/quote] I can't either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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