Pro-Choice? Quit Crying About Your Miscarriage | Momlogic

Pro-Choice? Quit Crying About Your Miscarriage | Momlogic

This article on Momlogic is getting a lot of heat on some parts of the blogosphere. Here's the gist of it:

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.

In 10 years of online debates I have often wondered the same thing. The ability of some women to make a disconnect from their babies when they are wanted and when they are not fascinates me, although I think part of it is that it is not really about the children, it's more about the woman and what SHE wants. It's a little selfish and self-centered.

I found one pro-life comment.

Profound. It seems that most of the people who disliked this article keep making rationalizations and excuses. Somehow it is o.k. to abort a baby “before” you were ready to be a mother? But once you decide you are mature enough, you want sympathy and compassion from those around you if you miscarry? You can’t have your cake and eat it to. For those who enjoy the excuse “but I wanted to wait until I would be a better mother..to properly care for a child”, then stop having sex, use birth control, or do the right thing and give your child up for adoption to a loving family. I am proud of the author who actually had the guts to stand up for what she believed in. Just because it may not be the view point you like…does not make her spiteful. I think aborting a baby is beyond spiteful.

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