I did my baby a favor by killing it
April 13th, 2007Talk about turning morality on its head. Caitlin Moran thinks she did the motherly thing by having an abortion. Here’s a great piece of logic:
Last year I had an abortion, and I can honestly say it was one of the least difficult decisions of my life. I’m not being flippant when I say it took me longer to decide what work-tops to have in the kitchen than whether I was prepared to spend the rest of my life being responsible for a further human being. I knew I would see my existing two daughters less, my husband less, my career would be hamstrung and, most importantly of all, I was just too tired to do it all again.
Heaven forbid she should have given the baby up for adoption. Or sucked it up, accepted responsibilty for her actions and raised the baby. After all, that wouldn’t be as motherly as killing it.
To paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, I tremble for our society when I remember that God is just, and that His justice will not sleep forever.
“…a child that, through no fault of its own, would be the destructor of a marriage, a family, a parent.”
This is classic, “it’s nobody’s fault” mentalitiy. I don’t even want to get started…
Gee, I wonder if she has a nanny to help her with her other 2 children so that they won’t disrupt her important career of gracing us with her enlightening opinions. I wonder what the possible nanny thinks about her own social position, stuck helping raise the children of such a super-intelligent being. She must be really low on the food chain.
Or how about the maid she has to keep her house clean. How sad that she’s not intelligent enough to write drivel about her own superiority.
But it’s great that she has at least 2 kids so she can give employment to people that would otherwise be on the streets because they’re not capable of doing anything better than clean someones house or take care of children. They’re not smart enough to write for a newspaper. Or may they’re simply unwanted children and no one paid attention to them. And I guess that’s the problem..Ms Moron [sic] doesn’t want child #3 to end up taking care of someone elses children.
How sad.
How amazingly sad and bad. It is almost breathtaking, the consistenceof the self-centeredness. Great comment Bill!
I am literally sick to my stomach.
It gets better: she says that woman who have abortions do society a favor, too.
“what I do believe to be sacred — and, indeed, more useful to the earth as a whole — is trying to ensure that there are as few unbalanced, destructive people as possible. By whatever rationale you use, ending a pregnancy 12 weeks into gestation is incalculably more moral than bringing an unwanted child into this world. Or a child that, through no fault of its own, would be the destructor of a marriage, a family, a parent. It’s fairly inarguable to say that unhappy children, who then grew into very angry adults, have caused the great majority of mankind’s miseries. If psychoanalysis has, somewhat brutally, laid the responsibility for mental disorders at parents’ doors, the least we can do is to tip our hats to women aware enough not to create those troubled people in the first place.”
This is pure evil, and she is evil for having written this, not only to excuse the murder of the unborn, but to praise it as “incalculably more moral” than the alternative.
“What I am vexed with is the idea that, by having an early abortion, a woman is somehow being unfemale and, indeed, unmotherly.”
What in all that is holy would she consider unmotherly if not abdicating the role of motherhood by murdering her own child?
The word “Orwellian” is overused, but she is “vexed” by the fact that words — and thus the ideas behind them — have concrete meanings and cannot be infinitely distorted to include their exact opposites.
I keep coming back to the conclusion that what I have read is nothing short of evil.
Soon and very soon, we are going to see the King Hallelujah! Hallelujah! We’re going to see the King.
No more crying there, we are going to see the King
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! We’re going to see the King.
No more dying there, we are going to see the King
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! We’re going to see the King.
That’s all I could really think to say on this subject.
This is horrific. May God have mercy on her soul.
And just what is Ms. Moron, uhhh…sorry Moran’s standard for morality and for what is ’sacred’? Certianly not the Word of God. More likely it comes from within her own demented mind. I see not a whit of difference between the logic she uses to justify her deed than that used by Hitler to cleanse Europe of those who, by his definition, were inferior types.
If you’re too self-absorbed to care for another baby get your tubes tied honey. Of course, that might cause a scar on the tummy that would just RUIN how you look in a bikini so I don’t know if I’d risk it. After all, it is all about you!
Her last name is Moran? I think this guy has a message for her:
http://www.timellsworth.com/?p=987
This woman makes me absolutely sick to my stomach as I sit here and look at my 8 month old son smiling and laughing at his daddy. How can anyone be so cruel???? She’s gone way out on the limb to try to justify her actions. As Tim pointed out here are other alternatives. That crap about bringing an unwanted child into the world and being a destructor of a marriage is hokey!!!!! The child may have been unwanted by her, but there are many others who would desperatley want God’s blessing.
When convenience and pragmatism become more important than life, it says a lot about just how far our society has turned from God. If she applies her reasoning to other areas of her life, the results would lead to further tragedy. For example, if her career gets a little too busy, will she put one of her other children up for adoption? Or worse, will she just kill the child? If she gets too tired, will she eventually just kill herself?
And no one understands why many other nations hate us. Pretty obvious to me!
Is there a test now for “unbalanced” fetuses? I’m with you, Eric, someone better take her other two kids from her for their own protection. I’m willing to bet everything I have the vast majority of abortions are ordered up by women just like her, middle class to rich white babes who don’t want the inconvenience of children or prevention.
Newman, if by ‘us’ you mean the U.S., I don’t see why Moran’s article explains why other nations hate us: I believe that Caitlin Moran is a British subject.
Either way, as the West’s most vicious enemies have no problem encouraging their children to kill themselves in order to murder infidels (check out the picture here), I’m not sure that Roe v. Wade is very high on al Queda’s reasons for hating us. Yes, those who support abortion do so because they embrace a culture of death, rooted in relativism, in order to make their lives more convenient.
But our external enemies are hardly any better: the jihadists embrace their own culture of death, rooted, not in post-Enlightenment relativism, but rather in (at best) a psychotic and sociopathic perversion of religion that eschews the rationality of both the pagans of ancient Greece and the monotheists of Judeo-Christianity.
Seriously, who among our enemies and even our antagonists embraces a culture of life? Look beyond the psycho jihadists, and you’ll see that the Russians are choosing to abort themselves into oblivion and the Chinese government treats their people like cattle.
Legalized abortion to the tune of 40 million murders is an appalling crime against God and man, no doubt, but our Earthly enemies do not hate us for it.
What’s especially appalling about this woman glorying in the murder of her child is that she is fully capable of taking care of it. If she were a single mother who didn’t have the means to support the baby, having an abortion would still be dreadful and wrong — but I could at least understand that more than I can this decision.
This is nothing but sheer selfishess — and, as Bubba already pointed out — sheer evil.
me me me me and me. What else is there??
Caitlin Moran sounds as if she is quite proud of her decision.
I know at least five women who, during their college years, terminated unwanted/unplanned pregnancies. While I would not want to make that decision for another person, nor would I compel someone who has had an abortion to live the rest of her life in shame, I certainly wouldn’t expect her to act as if she had done some kind of heroic deed.
What troubles me, too, about Moran’s column is that she compares the decision to picking out countertops in her kitchen, and also that, “if I ever did have to have an abortion again, I would like to think that it would be something unlikely to provoke a moral dilemma in anyone, least of all me.”
Excuse me, but if she has already decided that she does not want anymore children, then why isn’t she (or her husband) taking steps to make sure that she doesn’t ever get pregnant again? And how are her kids supposed to feel if/when they ever find out that they are one of the reasons/excuses she used for having had an abortion?
“what I do believe to be sacred — and, indeed, more useful to the earth as a whole — is trying to ensure that there are as few unbalanced, destructive people as possible.
Going to a shrink and becoming less unbalanced and destructive of your own offspring might be a good start.
“What I am vexed with is the idea that, by having an early abortion, a woman is somehow being unfemale and, indeed, unmotherly.”
How unfair that just because I killed my baby, people think I’m not particularly maternal! Well, DUH! We don’t exactly hold Susan Smith and Andrea Yates up as examples, either, for very good reason!
Guppies eat their own young. We expect better from human mothers.
“While I would not want to make that decision for another person”
Every law we have essentially makes decisions for other people by limiting the behaviors they can engage in. I personally DO want the decision to be made for people contemplating abortion. The decision being ‘you cannot do that’ in our society.
I guess she was too selfish to even think about carrying the child to term and placing him/her for adoption, huh? Placing that child in the loving arms of a couple (like us) who aches for children would just be toooo much to ask, wouldn’t it?
This kind of stuff makes me ask, “How long, O Lord?”
Right on the money, Larry.
As a married woman unable to bear children, the fact that this woman doesn’t exhibit a shred of guilt absolutely baffles me. I would move heaven and earth to have a baby and she kills hers because it would be ‘inconvenient’??????? We’ve already adopted one child and fostered several others - I just don’t even know what to say…….
As a side note - my mother was 40 when she became pregnant with her sixth child - me. At the time, her youngest was already eight and her oldest 16. My existence completely altered life for my family. And yet, I was loved unconditionally and am so grateful for my life.