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- There is a proverb that says, "There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it
leads to death." Indeed, the human heart can be deceptively wicked, and
it is amazing the kinds of compromises in integrity and moral character
that seared consciences can justify, and even "bond" over. In his
column dated January 23, 2008 entitled "Alison:Your Aim is True," Professor Mike S. Adams brings to the fore a recent essay by Alison Piepmeier, Director of Women's & Gender Studies/Department of English at the College of Charleston, S.C., entitled "Choosing Us," in which Ms. Piepmeier outlines how she and her husband Walter came
to the unfortunate decision to abort an unplanned pregnancy. This was
not a case of rape. Or a case of detriment to her health. Or a lack of
finances to properly care for the child. No, Ms. Piepmeier and her
husband made the decision to abort their child -- a decision that, in
most cases, is psychologically and emotionally agonizing for those
inadvertent couples involved in deciding the fate of their unborn --
simply because the pregnancy was, in its worst case scenario, an
"inconvenient truth" within their marriage. Professor Adams writes:
...What
is odd about her quick decision to abort is that she was no teenager.
She was 31 years old when she got pregnant and was in a “stable
relationship.” In fact, the man who got her pregnant was “Walter,” her
husband of five years. She had kept several hundred dollars tucked away
in case she ever needed to terminate an unplanned pregnancy - a habit
she did not terminate even after years of marriage. Alison confessed in
her essay that she was part of a happily married couple, that she and
her husband were in good physical health, and that they both had jobs
and health insurance. She even said, “Walter and I were pretty good
candidates for parenthood”...
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Professor Adams
affirms that Ms. Piepmeier's arguments in support of her decision
provide "some of the best examples of the cruelty, heartlessness, and
utter self-absorption embodied in the modern feminist movement." But,
quite frankly, he is being polite; he didn't go so far as to denounce
this woman's reasoning as that of a crackpot!
For to be sure, it could be argued that it is only a mind that is
"twisted and devoid of humanity" that could view willful termination of
the unborn in the context of a "love story." Ms. Piepmeier writes:
...There
are other stories that go along with our abortion—the story of telling
my family, of my brothers’ conflicted yet supportive reactions. There
are the stories of the other women having abortions that day, women
whose insurance (like mine) wouldn’t cover the procedure. There are the
stories of other children these women will later have. There’s the story
of Walter’s lonely couple of hours in the clinic lobby, scanning the
faces of the other men waiting for their partners, some crying, some
relieved, all totally left out.
But the story I most want to
tell—and one I have never heard—is of abortion as an intimate part of a
couple’s life together. Our abortion was a love story. I’d worried that
Walter and I were rejecting a gift from the universe. What I discovered,
though, was that when we stripped away the distractions of everyday
life so that we could make this difficult decision together, it bound us
together as surely as if our choice had been different—and as it turns
out, that was the gift...
Read Ms. Piepmeier's account of the events leading up to her abortion for yourself, and it will
become clear that she and Walter found themselves caught in moral
quicksand. It will also become clear that the ultimate decision to abort
their baby for the sheer inconvenience left them with no option other
than to justify and rationalize what they already knew very clearly in
their consciences was WRONG. Indeed, if they dig deep enough, they could
come to the rather disturbing conclusion that the special "bond" they
now share could be likened to that of co-conspirators in a regular
murder. They have a bond alright. But it is not based on anything noble.
Our
hope for them is that they look back one day at this outrage and
recognize how far into depravity they descended...and the need for God's
forgiveness! Perhaps, after viewing the content of the sites, related
articles, and video we have highlighted below, Ms. Piepmeier and her
husband, as well as others in favor of abortion on demand will, at the
very least, acknowledge that, at six weeks, Ms. Piepmeier's aborted
fetus was, indeed, and quite visibly, a HUMAN being, not the "potential
person," nor the "marble-sized blob" she describes after viewing her
ultrasound at the abortion clinic. Ms. Piepmeier's utterances are
reflective of the kind of person that the Bible describes as one who is wise in their own eyes -- for, certainly, she appears educated beyond her intelligence, yet is still fundamentally lacking in true wisdom.
Like
Professor Adams, we, too, wonder what Alison Piepmeier, in her capacity
as Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at The College of Charleston,
will say to the next co-ed who asks her advice on the issue of
abortion. Like him, we also wonder, "what advice she will give to a
young girl having marital problems. Perhaps, that she and her husband
should get pregnant, have an abortion, and experience true emotional
intimacy"? God help us. |
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EDITOR'S NOTE (02-29-08):
It is amazing how perspectives on this issue of abortion can be polar
opposites. At one end of the spectrum are the Alison Piepmeier's. At the
other are the Emma Becks,
a young English artist who killed herself recently after aborting her
eight-week pregnancy with twins from the sheer weight of guilt.
We urge you to watch "180" Movie The Way of the Master
A perfect depiction that moral relativism can be overcome by absolute truth on such issues like Abortion. Choose LIFE.
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RELATED ARTICLE: The SLED Test - Four Top Arguments By Steve Wagner, Healthlink.org
We
all agree that toddlers are valuable human beings with rights. Yet the
unborn differ from toddlers in only four ways, and the first letters of
each of these differences spell an easy-to-remember acronym, SLED (Size,
Level of Development, Environment, Degree of Dependency).
RELATED ARTICLE: The Negro Project: Mararet Snager's EUGENIC Plan for Black Americans Life Education And Resource Network (L.E.A.R.N), By Tanya L. Green
Margaret
Sanger aligned herself with the eugenicists whose ideology prevailed in
the early 20th century. Eugenicists strongly espoused racial supremacy
and "purity"," particularly of the "Aryan" race. Eugenicists hoped to
purify the bloodlines and improve the race by encouraging the "fit" to
reproduce and the "unfit" to restrict their reproduction. They sought to
contain the "inferior" races through segregation, sterilization, birth
control and abortion.
RELATED SITE: THE CASE FOR LIFE: Like You Have NeverHeard It Before
Only
One Issue: The abortion controversy is not a debate between those who
are pro-choice and those who are anti-choice. It’s not about privacy or
trusting women. To the contrary, the debate turns on one key question.
What is the Unborn?
RELATED SITE: Abort73.com: The Case Against Abortion
RELATED VIDEO: This is Abortion
RATED: MA (Mature Audiences Only)
WARNING: Contains graphic post-abortion pictures. Be Warned! The Visual Evidence is Disturbing.
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