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To: LindyBill who started this subject7/18/2004 4:32:21 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (2) of 793927
 
"TERRIFYING"
By Michelle Malkin · July 18, 2004 03:44 PM
Rod Dreher over at The Corner points to this creepy New York Times piece nytimes.com by a cosmopolitan woman who recounts her decision to undergo "selective pregnancy reduction."

Let me translate that for normal people who reject the euphemisms of the pro-death camp. The privileged woman finds out she is carrying triplets. The thought of having to move from Manhattan's East Village to a suburb, where "I'll have to start shopping only at Costco and buying big jars of mayonnaise," fills her with dread. So she undergoes "selective pregnancy reduction"--killing two of her eight-week-old unborn children:

When we saw the specialist, we found out that I was carrying identical twins and a stand alone. My doctors thought the stand alone was three days older. There was something psychologically comforting about that, since I wanted to have just one. Before the procedure, I was focused on relaxing. But Peter was staring at the sonogram screen thinking: Oh, my gosh, there are three heartbeats. I can't believe we're about to make two disappear. The doctor came in, and then Peter was asked to leave. I said, ''Can Peter stay?'' The doctor said no. I know Peter was offended by that.

The callousness and detachment of this woman are so indescribably stunning that you must read the whole thing for yourselves. She concludes dryly:

I had a boy, and everything is fine. But thinking about becoming pregnant again is terrifying.

So she's terrified? I can only imagine how her surviving son will feel when he grows up and learns about the fate of his siblings.

michellemalkin.com
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