“Abortion Addict” Has 15 Terminations in 16
Years
Is abortion a moral issue? I say yes. The unborn child is a living
human being, albeit in the developing stage. Some say no, that the
fetus is no more meaningful morally than a tumor. Indeed, a few
have
called it a parasite.
Those who think abortion is no big deal may still be bothered by this
story: A woman has written a memoir in which she tells of intentionally
getting pregnant and aborting fifteen times in sixteen years. From the
story:
A self-confessed “abortion addict” has told how she
had 15
terminations in 16 years. Irene Vilar, 40, who is now married with two
young daughters, had the abortions between the ages of 16 and her early
thirties. She describes her decisions in a book called Impossible
Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict and is now anticipating a
fierce backlash from the anti-abortion community. Miss Vilar, a
literary agent from Denver, Colorado said the terminations took place
against a difficult period in her life during which she also tried to
kill herself. Her mother had committed suicide when she was eight and
two of her brothers were heroin addicts.
She said her first husband, an older man, had
believed children
killed sexual desire and she had rebelled by not using birth control.
Then she would fear losing her husband and opt for a termination. In
the brutally frank memoir she writes: “My story is a perversion of both
maternal desire and abortion, framed by a lawful procedure that I
abused…
“A moment came when not being pregnant was enough
motivation for
wanting to be pregnant. Getting pregnant began to be simply a habit. If
I wasn’t pregnant, something was wrong, more wrong than what was
already wrong. I believe this habit formed with abortion number 9 and
pregnancy number 10.”
It shouldn’t just be the anti abortion community that is upset. This
isn’t a matter of law. It is a matter of morality and willing self
restraint, without which, society will eventually implode.
So where do y’all stand? No big deal? It’s her body and she can do
whatever she wants, including repeatedly getting pregnant in order to
abort? Or is this an awful morality tale of our times? I know this: I
hope she doesn’t make a dime off the bodies of her aborted offspring.
Contact: Wesley J. Smith
Source: Secondhand Smoke
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Date: October 14th, 2009
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