« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: My Mother’s Abortion- Kpete C&P job  (Read 2074 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Tucker

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 10937
  • Reputation: +540/-97
  • Making money the old fashioned way- Paid Mole
My Mother’s Abortion- Kpete C&P job
« on: July 09, 2013, 10:38:38 AM »
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023206916

Quote
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 09:40 AM

Star Member kpete (39,255 posts)

My Mother’s Abortion

Last edited Tue Jul 9, 2013, 09:54 AM USA/ET - Edit history (1)
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....

........................

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.


the rest:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/08/opinion/my-mothers-abortion.html?_r=1&
http://whiskeyfire.typepad.com/whiskey_fire/2013/07/what-you-can-politely-say-about-your-abortion.html

She mentions her mother's abortion as if it's nothing more than taking out the garbage. She lost her brother/sister.

What a cold, heartless bitch.

Quote
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.

What if your sibling were alive and you were DUmped in a alley gutter?

Quote
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.

If your daughter has any decency, she won't take the news very well.

New.



Logged
Come to think of it, unions do create jobs. Companies have to hire two workers to do the work of one.

Offline Ralph Wiggum

  • It's unpossible that I'm a
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 19494
  • Reputation: +2554/-49
Re: Re: My Mother’s Abortion- Kpete C&P job
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2013, 10:55:01 AM »
Shall I be the first to proffer this question?  Are you pleased that she didn't abort you?
Logged
Voted hottest "chick" at CU - My hotness transcends gender

Online 67 Rover

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 6478
  • Reputation: +1719/-41
Re: My Mother’s Abortion- Kpete C&P job
« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2013, 11:00:16 AM »
Wow they are so brave.  :p Oh well as long as it did not interfere with her night life.

Logged
NRA Benefactor member
G.O.A. Life member
G.O.A.L. Life member
Certified Law Enforcement Sig Armorer

Offline Ballygrl

  • Lipstick Renegade
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 14934
  • Reputation: +983/-120
Re: My Mother’s Abortion- Kpete C&P job
« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2013, 11:59:53 AM »
Quote
My Mother’s Abortion
By BETH MATUSOFF MERFISH

Well aren't you lucky that your Mom chose not to abort you, has this person never even thought about that?
Logged
Quote
"The nation that couldn’t be conquered by foreign enemies has been conquered by its elected officials" odawg Free Republic in reference to the GOP Elites who are no difference than the Democrats

Offline jukin

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 16232
  • Reputation: +2116/-170
Re: My Mother’s Abortion- Kpete C&P job
« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2013, 12:36:06 PM »
The Evil democrat party is fighting for:

1. Killing seven month old babies.
2. Not holding abortion clinics to accepted medical cleanliness regulations.

Yes, evil. Not just stupid. Not just indoctrinated. EVIL.
« Last Edit: July 09, 2013, 12:56:41 PM by jukin »
Logged
When you are the beneficiary of someone’s kindness and generosity, it produces a sense of gratitude and community.

When you are the beneficiary of a policy that steals from someone and gives it to you in return for your vote, it produces a sense of entitlement and dependency.

Offline DefiantSix

  • Captain, IKS Defiant
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 18668
  • Reputation: +1993/-189
  • "Set Condition One throughout the ship."
Re: My Mother’s Abortion- Kpete C&P job
« Reply #5 on: July 09, 2013, 12:43:08 PM »

Somehow the modern, progressive face of the Dhimmi'Rat party looks like something much more ancient.
Logged
"Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here."
-- Capt. John Parker
"I'm not looking for forgiveness, and I'm way past asking permission"
-- Capt. Steve Rogers
"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem."
-- Ronaldus Magnus

Offline Chris_

  • Little Lebowski Urban Achiever
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 46845
  • Reputation: +2028/-266
Re: My Mother’s Abortion- Kpete C&P job
« Reply #6 on: July 09, 2013, 12:44:10 PM »
Quote
My Mother’s Abortion
Why don't you ever see these stories written from the child's perspective?

Oh, that's right.
Logged
If you want to worship an orange pile of garbage with a reckless disregard for everything, get on down to Arbys & try our loaded curly fries.

Offline ConservativeMobster

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1187
  • Reputation: +38/-26
Re: My Mother’s Abortion- Kpete C&P job
« Reply #7 on: July 09, 2013, 01:17:37 PM »
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.
Logged
Our people look for a cause to believe in. Is it a third party we need, or is it a new and revitalized second party, raising a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors which make it unmistakably clear where we stand on all of the issues troubling the people?***Ronald Reagan

Offline obumazombie

  • Siege engine to lib fortresses
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 21814
  • Reputation: +1661/-578
  • Last of the great minorities
Re: My Mother’s Abortion- Kpete C&P job
« Reply #8 on: July 09, 2013, 01:21:48 PM »
The original scarlet letter's meaning has a new age one.
Logged
There were only two options for gender. At last count there are at least 12, according to libs. By that standard, I'm a male lesbian.

Offline Tucker

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 10937
  • Reputation: +540/-97
  • Making money the old fashioned way- Paid Mole
Re: My Mother’s Abortion- Kpete C&P job
« Reply #9 on: July 09, 2013, 01:24:31 PM »
Quote from: ConservativeMobster on July 09, 2013, 01:17:37 PM
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.

Although I probably would have answered that I didn't know, in truth, I'd say yes.
Logged
Come to think of it, unions do create jobs. Companies have to hire two workers to do the work of one.

Offline JohnnyReb

  • In Memoriam
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 32063
  • Reputation: +1998/-134
Re: My Mother’s Abortion- Kpete C&P job
« Reply #10 on: July 09, 2013, 01:41:52 PM »
Abortion in 1972? Ain't that just a little before Roe V Wade?
Logged
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within."  Stalin

Offline hillneck

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1519
  • Reputation: +120/-5
Re: My Mother’s Abortion- Kpete C&P job
« Reply #11 on: July 09, 2013, 01:46:36 PM »
Quote
Star Member kpete (39,255 posts)
My Mother’s Abortion
By BETH MATUSOFF MERFISH
My mother, Sherry Matusoff Merfish, has two graduate degrees


Funny how the stupid b***h apparently has two degrees, but can't figure out how not to get pregnant.   :hammer:

Logged
In battle you have to show no mercy for mercy comes after the war when you still have the freedom to ask for it.

"Montani Semper Liberi"

Pray as if God will take care of all; act as if all is up to you.

Offline hillneck

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1519
  • Reputation: +120/-5
Re: My Mother’s Abortion- Kpete C&P job
« Reply #12 on: July 09, 2013, 01:48:24 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on July 09, 2013, 01:41:52 PM
Abortion in 1972? Ain't that just a little before Roe V Wade?

Come to think about it, Roe vs Wade was decided in 1973.
Logged
In battle you have to show no mercy for mercy comes after the war when you still have the freedom to ask for it.

"Montani Semper Liberi"

Pray as if God will take care of all; act as if all is up to you.

Offline 98ZJUSMC

  • The Most Deplorable
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8424
  • Reputation: +436/-76
  • Now, with 99% less yellow!
Re: Re: My Mother’s Abortion- Kpete C&P job
« Reply #13 on: July 09, 2013, 02:15:35 PM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on July 09, 2013, 10:55:01 AM
Shall I be the first to proffer this question?  Are you pleased that she didn't abort you?
:II:  :hi5:
Logged
              

Liberal thinking is a two-legged stool and magical thinking is one of the legs, the other is a combination of self-loating and misanthropy.  To understand it, you would have to be able to sit on that stool while juggling two elephants, an anvil and a fragmentation grenade, sans pin.

"Accuse others of what you do." - Karl Marx

Offline ConservativeMobster

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1187
  • Reputation: +38/-26
Re: My Mother’s Abortion- Kpete C&P job
« Reply #14 on: July 10, 2013, 04:39:39 PM »
Quote from: Tucker on July 09, 2013, 01:24:31 PM
Although I probably would have answered that I didn't know, in truth, I'd say yes.

The truth is, I don't know. But I told her what I'd like to believe, that God forgives a repentant heart.
Logged
Our people look for a cause to believe in. Is it a third party we need, or is it a new and revitalized second party, raising a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors which make it unmistakably clear where we stand on all of the issues troubling the people?***Ronald Reagan

Offline Splashdown

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 6729
  • Reputation: +475/-100
  • Out of 9 lives, I spent 7
Re: My Mother’s Abortion- Kpete C&P job
« Reply #15 on: July 10, 2013, 04:42:46 PM »
Texas Pro-aborts say the new law's regulation may close all but six of their murder factories.

If they were really pro-woman, wouldn't they worry that those abortion clinics fail to meet basic medical standards?
Logged
Let nothing trouble you,
Let nothing frighten you. 
All things are passing;
God never changes.
Patience attains all that it strives for.
He who has God lacks nothing:
God alone suffices.
--St. Theresa of Avila



"No crushed ice; no peas." -- Undies

Offline GOBUCKS

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 24186
  • Reputation: +1812/-339
  • All in all, not bad, not bad at all
Re: My Mother’s Abortion- Kpete C&P job
« Reply #16 on: July 11, 2013, 12:22:43 AM »
Quote from: Splashdown on July 10, 2013, 04:42:46 PM
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.

The DUmp lunatic race baiters are overwhelmingly white.

The murdered infants, overwhelmingly, are not.

Logged

Offline Splashdown

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 6729
  • Reputation: +475/-100
  • Out of 9 lives, I spent 7
Re: My Mother’s Abortion- Kpete C&P job
« Reply #17 on: July 11, 2013, 08:05:12 AM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on July 11, 2013, 12:22:43 AM
No, they really wouldn't.

The DUmp lunatic race baiters are overwhelmingly white.

The murdered infants, overwhelmingly, are not.



Point ceded.
Logged
Let nothing trouble you,
Let nothing frighten you. 
All things are passing;
God never changes.
Patience attains all that it strives for.
He who has God lacks nothing:
God alone suffices.
--St. Theresa of Avila



"No crushed ice; no peas." -- Undies

Offline ChuckJ

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4796
  • Reputation: +534/-37
Re: My Mother’s Abortion- Kpete C&P job
« Reply #18 on: July 11, 2013, 08:46:14 AM »
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!
Logged
“Don’t vote for the person who tells you you deserve something. Just don’t do it if it’s something other than life, liberty, or the pursuit of possible happiness. If everyone is telling you you deserve something, vote for the one who is promising you the least. Be suspicious of the man or woman who tell you deserve everything. Because you don’t.” ---Mike Rowe

Offline BlueStateSaint

  • Here I come to save the day, because I'm a
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 32553
  • Reputation: +1560/-191
  • RIP FDNY Lt. Rich Nappi d. 4/16/12
Re: My Mother’s Abortion- Kpete C&P job
« Reply #19 on: July 11, 2013, 08:58:42 AM »
Quote from: ChuckJ on July 11, 2013, 08:46:14 AM
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!

Good one.  H5 given.
Logged
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty." - Thomas Jefferson

"All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk!" -Ayn Rand
 
"Those that trust God with their safety must yet use proper means for their safety, otherwise they tempt Him, and do not trust Him.  God will provide, but so must we also." - Matthew Henry, Commentary on 2 Chronicles 32, from Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

"These anti-gun fools are more dangerous to liberty than street criminals or foreign spies."--Theodore Haas, Dachau Survivor

Chase her.
Chase her even when she's yours.
That's the only way you'll be assured to never lose her.

Offline JohnnyReb

  • In Memoriam
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 32063
  • Reputation: +1998/-134
Re: My Mother’s Abortion- Kpete C&P job
« Reply #20 on: July 11, 2013, 09:54:05 AM »
Quote from: ChuckJ on July 11, 2013, 08:46:14 AM
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!

Sort of Biblical, the cut the baby in half thing ..............
Logged
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within."  Stalin

Offline SSG Snuggle Bunny

  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 23558
  • Reputation: +2480/-270
  • Voted Rookie-of-the-Year, 3 years running
Re: My Mother’s Abortion- Kpete C&P job
« Reply #21 on: July 11, 2013, 10:19:41 AM »
She missed one.
Logged
According to the Bible, "know" means "yes."
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »