"Pro-Choice? Quit Crying About Your Miscarriage"

Pro-Choice? Quit Crying About Your Miscarriage
posted Thursday, February 5, 2009


[i]Editor's note: momlogic values the right of every woman to have
-- and express -- their opinion, and this post is no exception.

Guest blogger Gina: I respect women's right to choose, but I
have little tolerance for pro-choicers who expect sympathy when they
have a miscarriage.
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These are women who put pro-choice buttons on their backpacks in college and ridiculed pro-lifers for being backward, repressive religious freaks who want to control the world's uteruses.

Ten years have passed and lo and behold, these women have grown up, gotten married, and now have the itch to have a baby of their own. Suddenly the monthly visitor that they were relieved to get when they were 20, now, at 32, plunges them into the depths of depression.

Like vegetarians who eat chicken but not beef, many pro-choice advocates want it both ways. It's a baby when they want it to be, it's a bundle of cells when they don't.

If you believe that pregnancy doesn't produce a baby until some magic number (13 weeks? 20 weeks? 40?), then you must also agree that it's ridiculous to break down in hysterics, set up a memorial website for your "angel," and seek out a grief counselor when you start bleeding in your first trimester. After all, you're simply talking about the loss of a conglomeration of microscopic cells, right?! That's hardly something to cry about.

Advocate all you want, but don't come crying to me when your hypocrisy hits you like a ton of bricks. If you are going to defend the right to abort babies, you don't have the right to be upset when yours dies.

Marc™ wrote:

Pro-Choice? Quit Crying About Your Miscarriage
posted Thursday, February 5, 2009


[i]Editor's note: momlogic values the right of every woman to have
-- and express -- their opinion, and this post is no exception.

Guest blogger Gina: I respect women's right to choose, but I
have little tolerance for pro-choicers who expect sympathy when they
have a miscarriage.
Getty Images

These are women who put pro-choice buttons on their backpacks in college and ridiculed pro-lifers for being backward, repressive religious freaks who want to control the world's uteruses.

Ten years have passed and lo and behold, these women have grown up, gotten married, and now have the itch to have a baby of their own. Suddenly the monthly visitor that they were relieved to get when they were 20, now, at 32, plunges them into the depths of depression.

Like vegetarians who eat chicken but not beef, many pro-choice advocates want it both ways. It's a baby when they want it to be, it's a bundle of cells when they don't.

If you believe that pregnancy doesn't produce a baby until some magic number (13 weeks? 20 weeks? 40?), then you must also agree that it's ridiculous to break down in hysterics, set up a memorial website for your "angel," and seek out a grief counselor when you start bleeding in your first trimester. After all, you're simply talking about the loss of a conglomeration of microscopic cells, right?! That's hardly something to cry about.

Advocate all you want, but don't come crying to me when your hypocrisy hits you like a ton of bricks. If you are going to defend the right to abort babies, you don't have the right to be upset when yours dies.

Read more: http://www.momlogic.com/2009/02/abortion_and_miscarriage.php#ixzz1DztqkPOb