Tue Jul 9, 2013, 09:40 AM
Star Member kpete (39,255 posts)
My Mother’s Abortion
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My Mother’s Abortion
By BETH MATUSOFF MERFISH
ON June 25, I sat with my mother and sister in the gallery of the Texas State Senate to support Wendy Davis, a Democratic senator, in her filibuster against legislation that would limit abortions after 20 weeks and impose new regulations that would leave just a few abortion clinics open....
My mother, Sherry Matusoff Merfish, sat and yelled in indignation beside my sister and me in the Senate gallery. She has two graduate degrees and has built an immensely satisfying career as a political fund-raiser devoted to the election of women who support abortion rights. She also embodies maternal warmth.
My mother chose to abort her first pregnancy, in 1972....
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What the movement for reproductive rights needs is for the faces of freedom to emerge from the captivity of shame. To my mother’s generation, I ask: Speak openly about the choices you have made. To all women: ask your mothers, grandmothers, godmothers, aunts, sisters, daughters and partners about their reproductive histories. Show that abortion has myriad faces: those of women we love, respect and cherish. You have the power to cement in the minds of your communities and families the importance of reproductive freedom. You have made decisions that are private, even anguishing, but the weight of this political moment demands that you shed light on those decisions.
The opposition is frightening, as more states try to restrict abortion, but there is tremendous power and safety in numbers. You are part of a society of women who have been incredibly courageous; I ask humbly for yet another show of that bravery.
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Response to kpete (Original post)
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 10:59 AM
Star Member sinkingfeeling (28,275 posts)
1. I agree. I will talk about the 'justification' for my abortion in 1977 and
about my mother's illegal, back-alley abortion in 1938.
Response to kpete (Original post)
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 11:18 AM
lapislzi (4,918 posts)
3. Powerful.
Funny, I will talk to almost anyone about my abortion except my daughter, who, at 19, is certainly old enough to know.
I guess it's time.
My Mother’s Abortion
By BETH MATUSOFF MERFISH
My Mother’s AbortionWhy don't you ever see these stories written from the child's perspective?
They sound like these abortions are a badge of honor. Absolutely disgusted with these females and their stupid stories of "pride".
I've a story too, one told to me by my sis on her deathbed. She had an abortion early in a pregnancy but late in a doomed marriage. She justified it to herself at the time with all of the usual reasons but it haunted her for 15 years, and as she lay dying she questioned whether that innocent baby would be wherever she was going after death to remind her for an eternity of the wrong she'd done. That's a heartbreak I will never forget.
Star Member kpete (39,255 posts)
My Mother’s Abortion
By BETH MATUSOFF MERFISH
My mother, Sherry Matusoff Merfish, has two graduate degrees
Abortion in 1972? Ain't that just a little before Roe V Wade?
Shall I be the first to proffer this question? Are you pleased that she didn't abort you?:II: :hi5:
Although I probably would have answered that I didn't know, in truth, I'd say yes.
If they were really pro-woman, wouldn't they worry that those abortion clinics fail to meet basic medical standards?No, they really wouldn't.
No, they really wouldn't.
The DUmp lunatic race baiters are overwhelmingly white.
The murdered infants, overwhelmingly, are not.
Saw the below on the web just this morning. I figure this is a good place to stick it.
A worried woman went to her gynecologist and said: 'Doctor, I have a serious problem and desperately need your help! My baby is not even 1 year old and I'm pregnant again. I don't want kids so close together. So th e doctor said: 'Ok and what do you want me to do?' She said: 'I want you to end my pregnancy, and I'm counting on your help with this.' The doctor
thought for a little, and after some silence he said to the lady: 'I think I have a better solution for your problem. It's less dangerous for you too.' She smiled, thinking that the doctor was going to accept her request. Then he continued: 'You see, in order for you not to have to take care 2 babies at the same time, let's kill the one in your arms. This way, you could rest some before the other one is born. If we're going to kill one of them, it doesn't matter which one it is. There would be no risk for your body if you chose the one in your arms. The lady was horrified and said: 'No doctor! How terrible! It's a crime to kill a child! 'I agree', the doctor replied. 'But you seemed to be OK with it, so I thought maybe that was the best solution.' The doctor smiled, realizing that he had made his point. He convinced the mom that there is no difference in killing a child that's already been born and one that's still in the womb. The crime is the same!
Saw the below on the web just this morning. I figure this is a good place to stick it.
A worried woman went to her gynecologist and said: 'Doctor, I have a serious problem and desperately need your help! My baby is not even 1 year old and I'm pregnant again. I don't want kids so close together. So th e doctor said: 'Ok and what do you want me to do?' She said: 'I want you to end my pregnancy, and I'm counting on your help with this.' The doctor
thought for a little, and after some silence he said to the lady: 'I think I have a better solution for your problem. It's less dangerous for you too.' She smiled, thinking that the doctor was going to accept her request. Then he continued: 'You see, in order for you not to have to take care 2 babies at the same time, let's kill the one in your arms. This way, you could rest some before the other one is born. If we're going to kill one of them, it doesn't matter which one it is. There would be no risk for your body if you chose the one in your arms. The lady was horrified and said: 'No doctor! How terrible! It's a crime to kill a child! 'I agree', the doctor replied. 'But you seemed to be OK with it, so I thought maybe that was the best solution.' The doctor smiled, realizing that he had made his point. He convinced the mom that there is no difference in killing a child that's already been born and one that's still in the womb. The crime is the same!