Empty People

UPDATE
This woman has done it before as noted here on A Small Victory

Allah did some digging around and discovered that the Amy Richards in question is, indeed, uber feminist Amy Richards. He notes this paragraph by Amy's feminista sidekick Jennifer Baumgarten in the Nation:

If abortion were connected to actual women--people like my friend Amy Richards, who had an abortion at 18 and a selective reduction last year when she found she was pregnant with triplets, or Nancy Flynn, who was a single mom finishing her BA at Cornell when she had an abortion and who told me she would "never have been able to have the rich life I've had and help my son as much as I have if I'd been the single mother of two children"--perhaps the mounting restrictions wouldn't pass so handily.

Michelle Malkin: "TERRIFYING"

This is a prime example of what being in-human is in my book. As we strive to become more human and live our lives as Christ did I find this to be even more abhorent. I cannot fully explain the joy and at once terror that becoming a parent and knowing that another child grows in Sigrun's womb generates in me. I can say though without any doubts that I know this life is from God and that I have no right to terminate it under any circumstances. This is why we chose not to have the amnio tests done.

I cannot imagine what this woman must be like in order to do such a thing anymore than I can imagine what her partner is like to stand by and allow it to happen. But I am sure they must be empty inside....

Comments

[Camilla]

The fact that this woman chose to "selectively terminate" two perfectly healthy fetuses when millions of infertile couples are struggling to have a child and can't is literally, in the words of one woman "a slap in the face."
She was not a victim of incest or rape, she was not in an abusive relationship, she did not have cancer or AIDS, her fetuses did not carry Tay Sach's disease, sickle-cell anemia, neurofibromatosis, coolies anemia, Down's Syndrome, or other sever/fatal birth defects. She just didn't want to give up her lifestyle or make the necessary sacrifices for her children the way all mothers have done since time immememorial. Even her nice-as-peach-pie boyfriended suggsted they give raising triplets a shot; she ignored his desire and refused to do so.
Needless to say, the boyfriend was bothered by it - what normal guy wouldn't when there's even a slight possibility that raising multiple kids is going to be okay, and the woman terminates the multple pregnancy anyway because of selfishness?
Moreover, if her son ever finds out that two of hi roomies-in-utero were aborted becaue his mom didn;t want to raise all three of them together, or even let a friend or relative help raise them, how will he handle it?

[Messy Christian]

Yet another proof that we're in a messed up world. sigh. :(

I really feel like I need to sit in a corner and drown myself in beer or something.

[Sivin Kit]

"joy and terror" - indeed what a realistic picture of parenthood and life as a human in all it's fullness.

[james]

*sigh* It's terrible, the state of the human condition.