Horrible

That's the only word I can think of to describe this article. It's a woman coldly describing why she decided to abort two of the triplets she was carrying. Basically, she didn't want to have to move to the suburbs and buy large jars of mayonnaise. Also, she might have had to slow down her career a bit and put some tiny human beings first in her life. (Link first seen over at Peppermint Patty's. Michelle Malkin has some more commentary on this.)

Way back when I used to be "pro-choice but personally opposed to abortion," I read an article similar in tone to this one. The article was supposed to show me how much better it is now that abortion is "safe and legal". However, it had the opposite effect on me. It made me question my beliefs on this issue. It took a year or two, but I gradually became pro-life.

The article was in Ms. Magazine. This was in the late 80s and I was going to college. One day, walking from one of my classes, there was a table of magazines free for the taking. So, thinking of myself as kind of a feminist, I picked up a Ms. Magazine. I remember that it had Cher on the cover.

I had read copies of Ms. before. I would always forget how strange and whacked-out the content was in between its polished and mainstream-looking covers. Even then, I was turned off by radical feminism, even though I thought of myself as a feminist.

Anyway, this particular issue had an article about "the bad old days" before abortion was legal. The article consisted of the personal stories of several women who had illegal abortions. I don't remember any of the stories making me think, "Yeah, it's a good thing it's legal now," although that was my opinion back then. And one story in particular horrified me.

This was the story of a woman who had gotten pregnant while a college student. Her boyfriend offered to marry her, but she didn't want to get married. She wanted to finish school and start a career. I think she was about five months along when she went to an abortionist. I can't remember the particulars, but he did something that would later cause her to give birth to her dead baby.

So that's what happened when she was alone in her dorm room later. After doing so, do you know what her main concern was? Getting rid of the body. And do you know what she did?

She flushed the baby down the toilet.

That's right she flushed her child down the toilet as if it were excrement. And there was no acknowledgment from her that the baby was anything more than excrement. And do you know what her main worry was?

That the baby would stop up the toilet and she would get caught.

She also said that her health was very bad after having the abortion because she lost a lot of blood. My reaction to that was, "Who cares! You flushed your baby down the toilet!"

This woman was just so completely self-absorbed, I lost all compassion for her. She flushed her dead baby down the toilet like it was nothing, and had no remorse. And for what? For a career? What is a career compared to a human being?

So, that is what turned me towards becoming pro-life again. (Yes, I was pro-life when I first found out what an abortion was, when I was around eleven or twelve. As a teenager I talked myself into being "pro-choice but personally opposed".) Thank you, Ms. Magazine, for getting me to see the light.