Becoming an abortion counselor was kind of unexpected. I was a professional actress for many years. I loved acting, but I felt fairly depressed most of the time. I disliked my body. I felt competitive toward women. I felt completely alienated from myself and everyone else because I was intent on being successful.
I had a friend who was a birth doula, and she fascinated me with her stories about giving birth and growing life. It led me to start looking at my body in a whole different way. I became what’s called a “birth junkie.” I trained as a doula and watched every documentary I could get my hands on. During my training, I learned there are three kinds of doulas: birth doulas, adoption doulas, and abortion doulas. (read more)
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NYT: "AMID the sound and fury of the latest culture-war battles — first over breast cancer dollars and Planned Parenthood, and then over the White House’s attempt to require that religious employers cover contraception and potential abortifacients — it’s easy to forget that there is at least some common ground in American politics on sex, pregnancy, marriage and abortion."
"Even the most pro-choice politicians, for instance, usually emphasize that they want to reduce the need for abortion, and make the practice rare as well as safe and legal. Even the fiercest conservative critics of the White House’s contraception mandate — yes, Rick Santorum included — agree that artificial birth control should be legal and available. And both Democrats and Republicans generally agree that the country would be better off with fewer pregnant teenagers, fewer unwanted children, fewer absent fathers, fewer out-of-wedlock births. Where cultural liberals and social conservatives differ is on the means that will achieve these ends."
Cosmopolitan, New York Times
60 comments:
Too bad the movie title, "Sicko", is already taken.
The story is to be expected. It's the Rebellion of Eve repeated again, as it has been for millennia.
The pic accompanying the article is grotesque. Women are so practiced at presenting that warm, self-satisfied image even when they behave like monsters.
I was reluctant to post this because in a way, I'm contributing to giving her what she wants, some notoriety, for notoriety sake.
But at the same time, I also believe this kind of self promotion via abortion has to be answered. it has to be condemned before it takes off like some kind of fad.
Silence is not an answer.
There is no answer.
Only the slow unravelling into barbarism.
The payback is inevitable. I no longer see any point in answering.
Our fathers and grandfathers were right about women. We'll return to patriarchy once this madness fails and collapses.
"Even the most pro-choice politicians, for instance, usually emphasize that they want to reduce the need for abortion, and make the practice rare..."
Does this "project" do that? If not, what was the objective that was more important?
"... generally agree that the country would be better off with fewer pregnant teenagers, fewer unwanted children, fewer absent fathers, fewer out-of-wedlock births"
I see no evidence that Democrats (or some Republicans) prefer any such thing.
But i do not want the next election to spend any time on this at all. It is a wedge issue that makes people unable to think straight, so polarizing that further talk settles nothing and divides us further, which is I believe its purpose.
it clears the ground for statists to rule, while we fight over the social table scraps.
There are table scraps? Who has my scraps?
"Cherry Hill Women’s Center"
Where are the men's centers? We need a place where we can go to get the unfortunate consequences of our whoring removed. Where we can get our name changed, a new phone number and address. Maybe a mind scrubbing, and a refund for those stupid clothes she insisted on, and a trade in for that damned emasculating Prius.
Someone needs to ask her what the remains of the fetus looked like. Maybe she could talk about that.
What's the big deal? She is the typical liberal, progressive Democrat who loves abortion above all other values. It trumps everything. It trumps sexual harassment which is why they defended Bill Clinton. It trumps incompetence and lack of experience as it is one of the main factors that people like the wise Latina are judges. It's nothing new.
This women is who these people are in real life.
Someone above said it right. They are monsters.
I think if everyone was forced to watch visually exactly what the results look like for policy alternatives, that more people would move toward pro life, and most would find themselves landing in the middle somewhere near each other. By viewing results I mean seeing the visual story of what happens to a fetus before during and after abortion, but also what happens to a woman who does not have an abortion and is forced to have a child she desperately did not want for various reason, like rape, incest, too much wine, etc.
Every time an election nears, the large problem of rape-induced pregnancy becomes a really large issue in the media and within the democrat party collective. A coordinated effort ensues.
Are rape pregnancies really that common?
Which is more common: - A rape pregnancy or late term abortions performed by Dr. Gosnell types?
--The media are incurious and unavailable to assist locating the answer.--
So she whistled a happy tune and fooled herself. Rodgers and Hammerstein were right.
The left are cheerleaders for abortion. It's that simple.
They want to promote it.
If I was on a jury for someone who was alleged to have assaulted this waste of life, I would seriously have to think about the concept of jury nullification.
And let's not forget, we need amnesty because abortion keeps the lesser races down.
As an abortion counselor, Emily certain had some knowledge of what causes pregnancy and how to avoid it. She evidently CHOSE not to do so and purposely got pregnant. Then she decided to have an abortion.
What she did was take a private, personal, emotionally painful decision that many agonize over and struggle with making; and turned it into a media circus for her own personal glorification.
This person is a monster. Let us hope that she never is in charge of the care of another human being.
She is Sanger-froid'd.
Me! Me! Me! Me! Me!
Pogo is Only Mostly Dead said...
"... generally agree that the country would be better off with fewer pregnant teenagers, fewer unwanted children, fewer absent fathers, fewer out-of-wedlock births"
I see no evidence that Democrats (or some Republicans) prefer any such thing.
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Do you see evidence of Democrats (and some Republicans) wanting more pregnant teenagers, more unwanted children, more absent fathers, more out-of-wedlock births?
Well, yes, Meade, Dems favor paying women welfare benefits to produce precisely those results.
Remember the Life of Julia campaign?
You get more of what you subsidize.
"Do you see evidence of Democrats (and some Republicans) wanting more pregnant teenagers, more unwanted children, more absent fathers, more out-of-wedlock births?"
I see evidence of unconcern about the implications of policies that lead to these directions.
I have no idea, since I'm not a proponent of either party.
My suggestion would be to not have a baby unless and until you are married... to a man.
Unfortunately, that has to be added nowadays.
Would I do away with the welfare benefits for unwed mothers? Maybe. Discouraging out of wedlock birth probably does more good than welfare payments.
"And Repubs favor, what,"
Structures of society that would make welfare "safe, legal and rare."
Must be a slow dog day.
Lawns need mowing, however.
Could be raining, spinelli. It is in NY.
May we be spared the false dichotomies for once? Please.
I adore the Elizabeth Scalia's take on this incident. Good Lord, that woman is brilliant.
Who can match that?
While reading all that and this I'm taken back to the recent encounters I mentioned with the toddlers running around curious as to their new environment, successfully herded by their mother. In the office the boy craned his neck to look upward at me as if regarding a redwood tree so amusingly it caused me to kneel down to put my face close to his tiny self and got him to introduce himself causing the ladies in the room to erupt into laughter that mystified me.
It is not so easy to kneel down and get back up. Maybe that is what was so funny. All that effort just to say "hello" at low level.
But while down there I am struck by the tiny miracle in front of me. He actually made it out alive. That right there is something to behold and rejoice. I realize this sounds corny but I honestly do feel closer to God, observing His work. A beautiful mulatto boy and his younger sister. Right there. And in that moment, their mother some kind of modern day hero in her own right. Awesome! She was there signing up for an apartment. I sensed her new home for all three. A white woman thin as a rail with two gorgeous gregarious children, a sight to behold, and now through all this sinister murderous bullshit I've come to regard them all as something akin to holiness. Her choice, the mother's choice, to go the hard route and allow participation in the co-creation of life with God. I don't care what anyone else thinks, I am moved deeply by that and regard this woman as hero.
Hero to this silly absurd tyrant's vain villainy.
Knock it off with Republican VS Democrat, you flat wear me out with shitty stupidity.
You are right Chip. Let's call it liberal vs. conservatives.
Liberals favor death. Conservatives favor life.
Chip Ahoy -- Thanks for that link to the Anchoress's piece. You're right -- she's brilliant, and cuts to the heart of the matter when she says that Emily is a victim "of a pervasive rhetoric full of untruths and the banality of real evil. She needs our prayers and our whole-hearted spiritual assistance. Evidenced before us is a mind seduced and under the power of nefarious propaganda that has told her to serve her own desires unto death — one that has encouraged her to soul-shredding idolatry while its promulgators serve only death and political campaign coffers. It is a mind owned by insipid platitudes..."
A mind owned by insipid platitudes -- perfectly put, and perfectly exemplified by Emily in her video when she says: "I don't feel like a bad person. I don't feel sad. I feel in awe of the fact that I can make a baby. I can make a life."
If that isn't the height of confusion, I don't know what is.
No way on the planet this woman got pregnant against her will. Nor can negligence be spun to mean "accidental".
April Apple said...
Every time an election nears, the large problem of rape-induced pregnancy becomes a really large issue in the media and within the democrat party collective. A coordinated effort ensues.
Are rape pregnancies really that common?
FWIW, Guttmacher says < 2%. 1% is rape, <1 is incest.
You have to hunt for it, but it's there.
When she says "a light went off in my head" I believe she meant to say "a light went ON in my head"... the light being an attempt to get her 15 minutes.
She treats it like she is getting a tattoo.
Maybe I'm exaggerating but that's how it sounds like to me.
She cannot distinguish on from off, nor murder from giving birth.
And remember, she votes. Democrat.
You're right, Lem, a light went on in her head as some sort of sinister idea. But really, the light of life went out in her body.
I read last week that statistics about rape abortions are not what you'd think. Counterintuitively those pregnancies are not generally aborted. But why?
The answer is stated forthrightly, the rape is an act of violence among the worst sort and the woman who experiences that violence chooses not to visit that same type of violence on her own child. That was the answer given. I did not bookmark the page because abortions are not the type thing I keep track of with intention to reference, but there you go.
Speaking of microaggressions, were we? I read too, might have been here, that once pregnant the woman's body experience chemical changes that are permanent. Little micro pieces of baby remain part of the woman. She carries part of the child with her for the rest of her life and these microscopic chemical changes do affect moods and feelings and actions and everything else. Thus remorse sometimes arises long after the act. That is what I read, it made sense to me, and I tend to believe it.
...the rape is an act of violence among the worst sort and the woman who experiences that violence chooses not to visit that same type of violence on her own child.
I prefer the term "rape-baby" myself but I underestimate the life-giving power of the act. I'd be a bad Republican.
It's funny that they use terms like "anchor babies" but seem to have trouble with the concept of of rape babies.
It makes me wonder if the undergoing experience of realizing one's conservatism feels like a form of ideological rape.
Are rape pregnancies really that common?
I hear rarity is always a good reason for imposing the consequences of an atrocity on someone.
"rape-baby" and "consequences of an atrocity"
Nice to see you're all in for dehumanization.
Nice to see you're all in for dehumanization.
Of rapists and the consequences of their time-honored attempts at risk-free reproduction? Of course.
Some behavior is likely genetic. I'm all for rooting out any incentive for spreading rapist/violator genes, should they exist. Or even the incentive for spreading other parts of the rapist's progeny and legacy throughout society.
Of course, I'm sure some rape-babies are wonderful people. They grow up to be special gifts to us all.
Or maybe their daddys' finer characteristics are just skipping a generation.
Carrying rape babies obviously rewards rapists. At the least, it incentivizes them biologically. You think the existence of another lifeform justifies that. I think the human race should do all it can to disincentivize violative behavior.
Rape and coercive strategies are rife throughout the animal kingdom.
I'd like to think humans could be above that.
But you know... mercy and compassion and all that.
Allowing rapists to reproduce through rape sounds like a reward for bad behavior, to me.
Maybe you think you're just being pro-fatherhood, though.
Who knows.
Did I miss something? Was this moron raped or did she get pregnant deliberately so she could get an abortion? She is certainly intelligent enough to understand how birth control works so this was a deliberate act.
Let's not twist this into something it is not.
I don't think either was the case. Accidents sometimes happen. It's slanderous to pretend there's any 100% successful method, and I'm sure she already has done enough for anyone here to slander her about.
The "rape" issue was a sidetrack started way earlier upthread. Sorry if you think I took a response to it too far.
Let's talk about the main point. It is not slander to say that a woman who works for Planned Parenthood knows how to implement birth control. Including morning after pills if she had unprotected sex. She did this to get pregnant and to get an abortion. So she could experience what her clients experience. She took a life to see what it "feels" like to do it.
She is truly an evil person.
Knowledge is not the point as nothing is guaranteed in life, including "protected" sex. Morning after pills do not work weeks afterward, which is a very plausible time frame in which to discover one's condition.
But we are men so let's pretend that we have female bodies and know these issues inside and out (no pun intended). Even though I'm sure any woman will agree with the caveats above.
The way she treated what she did is comment enough. But someone lied to you when they told you that the scenario of a weeks-later discovered pregnancy is impossible, regardless of intelligence. Or else, they just told you that all women are potentially privileged fiends who lack the grace of goddesses and must be watched.
It's slanderous to pretend there's any 100% successful method,
Actually there is. It is called being celibate. (Barring being raped of course which is something beyond your control) It is also one of the hardest methods to accomplish :-) Which is probably why it is so seldom used.
My issue isn't so much that she had an abortion. That action is pretty common. Whether I agree with it or not, that is a fact. What is despicable is to film the death of another human being and be proud of it. To use it for your own self aggrandizement is just sick.
I have known many women,over my lifetime, who have had abortions. It was generally a private decision that was made with much agonizing thought. Some were even coerced by their family or significant other. Most would rather not discuss it. Many would like to forget it completely. I have never seen a woman crow about it and parade the action as if killing her baby was some sort of accomplishment or prize. sick Sick SICK.
Meade said...
Dems favor paying women welfare benefits
And Repubs favor, what, forcing women to have babies but not pay welfare benefits?
Last I looked, Rs weren't forcing women to do anything.
They did, however want them to get an education, make good choices, and have a stable home with a good husband before having kids.
How cruel!
Rhythm and Balls said...
Are rape pregnancies really that common?
I hear rarity is always a good reason for imposing the consequences of an atrocity on someone.
Yes, let's turn what's good, as 5000 years of recorded history have taught us, for society as a whole on its head for 1% or less of the population.
Of rapists and the consequences of their time-honored attempts at risk-free reproduction? Of course.
We used to execute rapists.
Until people like Ritmo had their way.
Knowledge is not the point as nothing is guaranteed in life, including "protected" sex
Spoken like a true Lefty.
Forget knowledge, reason, logic, science, and the lessons of history.
Let's just wing it on Uncle Sugar's dime.
DBQ, Being celibate didn't work for the Blessed Virgin Mary.
I have serious question: is Emily the sort of woman that Republicans will have to work hard to win to ever win another election, even if it means compromising to her level?
Is Emily some sort of emerging norm?
The issue here isn't that a woman had an abortion -- thousands of women do that each day. The issue is that she made a video celebrating it and equated it with birth. That she was and is an actress is an established fact, so it's really about making a video.
Morally speaking (not legally), I think it's akin to someone recording a non-botched execution just to prove that it can be done.
chickenlittle said...
I have serious question: is Emily the sort of woman that Republicans will have to work hard to win to ever win another election, even if it means compromising to her level?
Is Emily some sort of emerging norm?
I doubt it. Abortion is less popular now than ever.
This is another Sandra Fluck.
Of course, if she is an emerging norm, kiss civilized society a fond farewell.
If this is what women are becoming, Conan the Barbarian will look like the Age of Reason.
Actually there is. It is called being celibate. (Barring being raped of course which is something beyond your control) It is also one of the hardest methods to accomplish :-)
Unnaturally hard. :-)
Or just unnatural.
Yes, let's turn what's good, as 5000 years of recorded history have taught us, for society as a whole on its head for 1% or less of the population.
Many of us would love to watch you be deported back into time 5,000 years ago, which seems to be right where you belong.
Forget knowledge, reason, logic, science, and the lessons of history.
Let's just wing it on Uncle Sugar's dime.
It's a fraction of what you spent on Iraq.
What an abomination to watch someone as irrational and ignorant as you talk about reason and logic. You can't follow a line of reasoning worth a damn. It might as well be a line of cocaine to someone as easily distracted as you are.
Rhythm and Balls said...
Forget knowledge, reason, logic, science, and the lessons of history.
Let's just wing it on Uncle Sugar's dime.
It's a fraction of what you spent on Iraq.
Gee, I don't recall Iraq adding 10 trillion to the national debt.
BTW how much did Libya, Bosnia, Desert Fox, Mogadishu, and blowing up selected aspirin factories in the desert cost?
Or, for that matter, Willie's refusal to take bin Laden when offered on a silver platter?
What an abomination to watch someone as irrational and ignorant as you talk about reason and logic. You can't follow a line of reasoning worth a damn. It might as well be a line of cocaine to someone as easily distracted as you are.
If Ritmo would kindly put forth a line of reasoning, rather than predigested talking points and non sequiturs solely intended to hijack a thread (any thread) from its subject because it makes the Left look bad, he might see how well we can follow it.
But, it's muscatel time for Ritmo, and the nasty is already flying.
They all cost a fraction of Iraq.
It's like everything you say is completely disconnected from what it's posted in response to. Someone with severe brain damage could be writing the sorts of comments you post. I'm being completely serious.
If you think - like most liberals - that abortion is no different than having your teeth cleaned, then her Evil stunt makes perfect sense.
A lot of Social liberals are creepy people. Pretty much every convicted felon, child molester, conman, drug dealer and pornographer is a Democrat. Which is why they are always against restrictions on felons voting.
Except the ones in government. They're all Repubiecans.
Unless they work for the EPA...
Rhythm and Balls said...
They all cost a fraction of Iraq.
Including the cost of turning down bin Laden?
Kinda doubt it.
But gutting Al Qaeda and discrediting it until the Choom Gang came along couldn't have been worth it, could it?
It's like everything you say is completely disconnected from what it's posted in response to
Says the man who ducks the question of adding 10 tril to the debt.
PS Notice Ritmo waits till he thinks it's safe to answer once he starts losing?
Trooper York said...
"Liberals favor death. Conservatives favor life."
Reagan was ostensibly a conservative but as governor in 1967 - the so-called "summer of love" - he signed the "Therapeutic Abortion" bill making California the first state to legalize abortion for the "well-being" of the pregnant woman.
Reagan later expressed regret for his decision to sign the bill. Of course, as President, he also expressed regret for his decision to authorize Iran-Contra.
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