Crap Emails From Pretend Babykillers
I cannot be sure of this but my impression about Andrew Sullivan is that he has not ever knocked a girl up. So he can be excused in the aftermath of the Tiller tragedy for posting “reader” emails like this:
I married late, at age 40, and my husband and I had no plans for children. As we were waiting for his vasectomy to “kick in”, using condoms, I somehow became pregnant. Ultrasound revealed that the pregnancy was ectopic. I was not well, feeling sick and in pain every day. There are extreme risks to the health of the mother in allowing an ectopic pregnancy to come to term.
I would have kept the whole issue to myself and not shared it with my family if it hadn’t have just so happened to coincide with a long-planned family reunion. I had to give a reason to not attend the reunion so I decided to share my predicament with my family. I chose to terminate at six weeks. My family heartily disagreed, saying that it was my duty to risk my life for a pregnancy I never wanted and had taken rational steps to avoid.
Uh yeah, they wanted you to carry an ectopic pregnancy to term? Because that worked at least one time in human history, and if you could pull that off at 40 with a sterile husband it would totally be to be the second coming of John the Baptist.*
Or what about…
Anyway, back to the ER. As I was registering to get my D and C [dilatation and curettage], a woman barged in the front door demanding an abortion immediately. The attendant told her she would have to wait her turn, to which she responded that she’d already had six abortions and it was no big deal, couldn’t they just rush her case a little since she had several more appointments to keep that day.
Well now I know where I’ll be getting my next abortion. No more of this Planned Parenthood and their lame “Mani Pedi While You Wait” service, their colors are fug anyway, Scandinavia just got jealous, etc.
Oh, and at the risk of bringing further torment upon this singularly tortured soul…
This is a secret only my wife and best friend know. But there is something therapeutic about reliving this for a complete stranger…
But paternalistic ramblings/spelling errors/use of the word “hysterical” aside…
Anyways, after only a few months of seeing one another I received a hysterical call. She had taken a home pregnancy test and it was positive. I told her to come over so we could discuss things. I realize now that I took advantage of her sweetness, innocence and naivety to convince her that an abortion was our best option.
Sure, I was just out of rehab, unemployed and uneducated, but these were all temporary. I came from an affluent family who would have helped provide for the child while I got my act together. We could have chosen to bring the child into this world and found more mature and emotionally healthy parents to adopt him or her. Instead, all I could think about was the stress and awkwardness this situation would cause, and I was set on making sure my girlfriend saw it the same way. No yelling, intimidation, or threats were involved, but I was able to convince her.
We scheduled an appointment at Planned Parenthood in hopes of receiving a non-surgical abortion. We were told that by the time they could see us she would probably be too far along for this option, so I called a private clinic. The very next day we were at the clinic, where they ran some tests and gave her a number of pills to take. No counseling, no discussion of options, nothing really. The next night she came over to my place and took the pills. It was not pretty to watch; she was in pain and it got a bit messy.
“Medical” or pill abortions were only legalized a few months before this selfish lazy cad purports to have emotionally blackmailed his fragile young thing into getting one, and they are still fairly rare, especially at private clinics, which are often loathe to stockpile RU-486, which is preposterously expensive. Also they are not “messy” except inasmuch as light menstruation is messy, which it is to dudes like this, which is the point.
* And the only reason the VATICAN advises aborting ectopic pregnancies is because they have a vested interest (along with the Federal Reserve, the Rockefeller Commission and the Carlyle Group, they are all in cahoots as you know) in making sure that the Second Coming NEVER ACTUALLY HAPPENS.
