A Picture of Narcissism
This is one of the most nauseating and sad things I have read in some time: Michelle Malkin.
Update: Bryan of Arguing with Signposts has an even more personal reaction.
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“I’ll have to start shopping only at Costco and buying big jars of mayonnaise.”
Horrors. Big jars of mayonnaise.
I have left this window open for several minutes trying to think of something cutting enough to finish off this post, but I just can’t.
Costco. My God.
Comment by Steven L. — Sunday, July 18, 2024 @ 4:52 pm
Infuriating to say the least! I have a son 34 and when I read these stories, I wonder, what did my generation do wrong, thatis in raising this generation. This generation of me. Everything is about me and the material things in my life. This woman will regret this decision, that is if she has a shred of conscious and sense of right and wrong. This story is so sad…
Comment by Cathy — Sunday, July 18, 2024 @ 7:04 pm
Lives: When One Is Enough
NYT carries a revolting story entitled, ” Lives: When One Is Enough” [RSS]. It is bylined By AMY RICHARDS as told to AMY BARRETT. Given that it’s the Times, it could well be made up. In this case, I hope so:
I found out I was having triplets …
Trackback by Outside The Beltway — Sunday, July 18, 2024 @ 7:07 pm
Ironically, the column is a regular feature entitled “Lives”.
BTW, I’m still reading regularly even though I quit blogging and rarely have time to comment.
Comment by Robert Prather — Sunday, July 18, 2024 @ 7:14 pm
Amazing. The pill made her moody, she’s been with the same guy three years but either doesn’t believe in marriage or just “isn’t sure” and her immediate react to the possibility of having three babies is that she might have to move to Staten Island and buy big jars of mayo instead of the little “I am still single” pint jars.
And somehow, that’s an unacceptable consequence.
The tragedy, to me, is not that she opted for “selective reduction”–the tragedy is that somebody this self-infatuated decided to keep even one.
Comment by Mark Hasty — Sunday, July 18, 2024 @ 8:31 pm
BORN UNDER A BAD SIGN
This is one of the most horrifying things I’ve read recently. And the most horrifying thing about is that the woman has left me wondering what is the more depressing thought: that somebody like this, who goes off the pill…
Trackback by The Bemusement Park — Sunday, July 18, 2024 @ 8:54 pm
BORN UNDER A BAD SIGN
This is one of the most horrifying things I’ve read recently. And the most horrifying thing about is that the woman has left me wondering what is the more depressing thought: that somebody like this, who goes off the pill…
Trackback by The Bemusement Park — Sunday, July 18, 2024 @ 8:54 pm
This Just Makes Me Want to Weep
I do not understand this story: When One Is Enough. Selective abortion? Choosing one child over two others because they are inconvenient? Wasn’t adoption even an option? I can pretty much get past abortion for the mother’s life, rape, the normal except…
Trackback by Sha Ka Ree — Sunday, July 18, 2024 @ 8:55 pm
Numb.
I just finished reading this: When One is Enough. My older sister recently attempted for the second time to have a baby. She got pregnant, but she miscarried. Nothing that they can really put a finger on; she’s just not
Trackback by Obsidian Wings — Sunday, July 18, 2024 @ 11:18 pm
Limbaugh on Richards
Just a programming note for anyone interested: After a commercial break (1:50 EDT), Rush Limbaugh is going to be discussing the Amy Richards NYT column that broke yesterday around the blogosphere. I know there are a great number of bloggers…
Trackback by Arguing with signposts... — Monday, July 19, 2024 @ 12:52 pm
The really, truly horrifying thing was that it was absolutely unnecessary. She lives in NYC inside the Archdiocese of NY. If she would have knocked on the door of any Catholic Church, she could have gotten help replacing her lost income and, at the end, she could have given up the twins for adoption. The Archdiocese has a longstanding offer to help any mother who is thinking of abortion for financial reasons no matter what.
Those unborn children died in vain, there was help available but rather than explore the options, she decided that killing was the easy way out, shut down her boyfriend who obviously wanted all three and chose death.
Comment by TM Lutas — Monday, July 19, 2024 @ 1:21 pm
Um, I have an adopted son.
I cannot begin to tell you how this piece of drek has profoundly disgusted me.
To the bone.
Comment by lazytart — Monday, July 19, 2024 @ 3:38 pm
I’m a frequent commenter to a lot of blogs, but I’m using a different pseudonym for this post, which I am copying to some other blogs. (Hope that’s okay) This woman revolts me: what a shriveled-up soul! And doubtless she’s liberal and claims to love everyone and seeks for the common good, & etc.
Why didn’t she consider carrying the babies to term, and giving them up for adoption? There are thousands of couples desperately trying to have children, who would have gladly accepted them.
This is awful, but especially so for me right now. My wife became pregnant unexpectedly this past spring, with our third child. We were stunned, because we are in early middle age, but we started planning to receive the new arrival.
But she had an episode of experiencing sharp pain, early in the second trimester. We went to the hospital in the middle of the night, and the staff diagnosed placenta previa and placenta percreta, two rare uterine disorders which are life-threatening when they occur together.
We met with a couple of doctors, and they were all blunt: It isn’t a case of losing the baby’s life or the mother’s life; it’s a case of the baby’s or the baby’s AND the mother’s. The child was normal, so far; but continuing the pregnancy entailed an immediate risk of massive, uncontrollable hemorrage at any time, and certainly during delivery.
The moral calculus was brutally cruel. During our first pregnancy, I didn’t even want any amnio tests, because I was so righteous and noble that I thought we would receive any child, no matter what kind of defect it had. (I was overruled, and things were fine, glad to say.) Now here I was, having to agree to stop the beating heart of what would have been my son, in order to save the life of my wife.
I fell into spiritual anguish, and still am. I would have no third child. The elements would not combine into a new human life. The universe would not have a new organ with which to perceive itself. He would slip back into oblivion, before he ever emerged from it. This, out of the clear blue sky, was my test of where my commitment to the right to life drew the line.
So we went back to the hospital and received the potassium chloride injection into the baby’s heart. They thoughtfully turned off the ultrasound monitor, but I peeked at theirs a couple of times. I saw a black & white beating heart one moment, and nothing a few minutes later. “All done,” the doctor announced softly. We both wept, and the doctor consoled us with a practiced but well-appreciated manner. Now my wife has to carry the dead baby until chemical treatment makes it safe to remove it surgically. It’s been a week, and will probably take a few more weeks.
And here this female creature is throwing lives away, because she doesn’t want to discomfit her morally empty existence with anything that might make inconvenient demands on her lifestyle. Translation: She isn’t ready to grow up yet. Christ! Tell me again about how compassionate the Left is in this country.
“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.” — Mother Teresa
Comment by A Summer In Hell — Monday, July 19, 2024 @ 5:14 pm
That is a heart-wrenching story and I am very sorry for your loss. I can’t imagine having to go through such as ordeal and I pray that you will be able to work through this terrible time.
Comment by Steven — Monday, July 19, 2024 @ 5:39 pm
The Casualness of Baby Killing
Did you catch this piece in the New York Times? Numerous bloggers did, and you can read their posts on the incredible article here, here, here, and here. A thirty-four year-old professional woman describes her reaction to being informed that…
Trackback by Flynn Files — Tuesday, July 20, 2024 @ 1:09 am
The Casualness of Baby Killing
Did you catch this piece in the New York Times? Numerous bloggers did, and you can read their posts on the incredible article here, here, here, and here. A thirty-four year-old professional woman describes her reaction to being informed that…
Trackback by Flynn Files — Tuesday, July 20, 2024 @ 1:09 am
How about some entertaining thoughts of the kid all grown up…
“Honey you were originally going to have 2 twins.”
“I just told the doctor to kill two eggs and you just happened to be the one that got spared.”
hmm…it almost sounds like a Who’s line is it anyway skit. Tell me that isn’t scary.
Comment by Tony — Tuesday, July 20, 2024 @ 12:19 pm
Just a thought: Why, in this age of vociferous abortion debate, is this the first time we’re hearing about this procedure? It seems a touch opportunistic that in a election cycle, such a massively disturbing story about an abortion method previously un-discussed in major (or independent) media should suddenly appear. All I’m saying is that these are caustic times, emotions are easily inflamed, and you simply cannot believe everything you read or hear. Don’t consider me a naysayer (I really hope the story is false, because if it’s not it’s repulsive to say the least) but perhaps a possible voice of reason in a debate thast rarely enjoys that quality.
Comment by Mike — Wednesday, July 21, 2024 @ 9:15 pm
Mike,
Ends up it is true, and had been remarked upon in a column in The Nation on January 15, 2024: http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=20040202&s=baumgardner (the ref is towards the bottom).
Comment by Steven — Wednesday, July 21, 2024 @ 9:34 pm