My stomach is churning.

This party reminds me of what I’ve read of behavior during the Black Death, this utter emotional detachment from reality. Behind all this facade is fear – fear of the future, fear of the universe, fear at the evil they sense is approaching and yet can only sense because their eyes have been blinded.

In the end, we actually dealing with vanity – the lightness, the unrootedness, that will be swept so easily before the tsuanami rushing towards our shore – and they will never know what hit them.

All we can do is chronicle and warn and pray that the Lord may turn from his jdugment against a generation, whose eyes he has blinded and whose ears he has stopped up.

The horror and inhumanity of such behavior is nearly beyond my ability to put it to words. I cannot, nor do I care to, comprehend the mindset that would be capable of rationalizing such things.

Murder. As you noted, they blatantly recognized and affirmed the humanity of the unborn child. It was a celebration of premeditated, brutal, gruesome murder.

Again, as I’ve said before on this site, this topic makes me more than a little crazy. I tend towards a brutal eye-for-eye dim view of the whole idea, and that wrath bothers me, as it is not mine to feel. Suffice to say that I think the very idea of abortion to be vile blasphemy, but to celebrate it…

I’m out of words.

but after reading the original it almost sounds to me like he was under conviction. I think his conscience was bothering him. He has to make excuses for his underlying discomfort.

But the party atmosphere is disturbing. Surely the symbolism of the red sheet is the most disturbing of all. It may as well have been a party for a condemned criminal with sparklers representing the electric chair.

Was having a party supposed to make Maggie feel better about her decision to kill her unborn child, fundraising notwithstanding? The more I learn about the abortion culture the more disturbing I find it. It just proves my view that it’s seen as just another form of birth control by the pro-abortionists choicers.

I wish Maggie could have heard her baby’s heartbeat, which can begin 22 days after conception or 5 weeks after the last menstrual cycle, as the article notes. Then maybe she would realize it isn’t a “tumor”. I’m not letting the boyfriend off the hook, either. Personal responsibility cuts both ways. Abstinence works every time it’s tried. Then maybe he wouldn’t have had to feel so ostracized because no “abortion party” would have taken place and he wouldn’t be an accessory to murder.

Abortion parties. Just when I think I’ve heard it all…

There’s a whole subculture that leads to abortion parties. I’m sure that a lot of her decision came from the shared attitudes of her girlfriends and their culture of death that is part and parcel of a certain version of feminism that views babies as a barrier to self-fulfillment that needs to be pushed aside.

How so different than a culture of life – and how empty in the end.

children by his children…this is beyond the pale of decent civility. The culture of death that man has created since the beginning of time has only escalated into the realm of the unimaginable and yet there it is staring us right in the face. I pray they burn in hell for they are truly EVIL.

In a philosophical context, could they even grasp the difference Maggie was making with their support vs. the obvious choice their own mothers had made?

Not only is the culture of death destroying our society, the culture of hedonism is right there with it.

Mailloux, I am at a loss for words for the distress and yes, fury I feel as they party and laugh and dance in anticipating the murder of a child. Maybe God can grant them mercy at Judgment Day. Many of us cannot join in that prayer.

My only comforting thought is that those tiny souls are resting in the arms of Jesus and our Blessed Mother. The babies will at least be loved by God.

This is a tearful diary, mailloux, I am sure you understand.

The author of the story writes about the “systemic sexism” that Maggie and her friends had suffered. I suspect he is referring to abuse or rape. To me, it seems like a situation where victims have become abusers.

Maggie and her “friends” want to kill the baby because he/she is weaker than them and they can exert power over him/her.

Maggie’s “friends” in trying to control the situation are exerting power over her, and making her experience their own guilt and shame.

Maggie’s “friends” are also exerting power over the father by excluding him — emasculating him when his instincts are telling him to protect his child, even though he agreed to the abortion.

Because it is highly unlikely that a pro-lifer would be invited to such a party, it is up to self-proclaimed pro-choicers to ensure that an abortion is not being sought because of a cycle of violence. (Somehow I doubt the “caring physicians” at the clinic are going to ask the right questions.)

I can understand that the author of the story did not know what to say in response to Maggie’s announcement of pregnancy. He was no doubt surprised. But I wonder if anything would have changed if instead of asking, “What are you going to do?” he instead said, “I always thought that you would be a good mother,” or “Let me put you in touch with people who can take care of both you and the baby.”

The “feminist” party attendees funded the murder of a child, contributed to the destruction of a mother and father, and validated the actions of the abusive women. I guess that’s why they call it the “feminist mystique.”

Can you imagine someone holding a party to raise money for Grandma’s funeral when Grandma is going to be killed because it’s not convenient to care for her anymore? And poor Grandma would be in attendance. It’s the same difference.

a lot of the women at that party probably got knocked up afterwards because such women tend to be loose so that one abortion party probably led to another dozen or so abortions in the next month.

Many of you say that abortions should be “legal, safe, and rare”. Why should they be rare?

by a few things here.

I’m bothered by the article itself. While I have little doubt that people do organize parties to raise funds for various things – I have some skepticism about this. I’m also bothered by a lot of the details offered about this party – the red sheet in particular. It seems to me to be an unlikely affectation.

The red sheet/womb, the implied celebration of the event, the anti-male behaviour of this woman’s supposed female friends. Surely if they were her friends they would show her more respect and consideration – and some deference to a caring partner who is willing to support her.

It reads more, to me, like a story crafted to provide a laundry list of just the sort of details that would most offend, coupled with the most obvious stereotypes of women associated with the pro-choice movement.

That the story has, at least, achieved that objective is clear.

What bothers me most is the blandly offered and, it seems, readily accepted conclusions about women who might seek an abortion. Whether one supports that action or not – the simplistic assumption that women would do so because, as one poster puts it:

“Maggie and her “friends” want to kill the baby because he/she is weaker than them and they can exert power over him/her.”

seems to be something of a leap. Even Sarah Palin admits that she had a moment where she contemplated it upon learning about Trig. I would hardly characterize her moment of temptation/weakness in such a fashion.

To put such a facile characterization on abortion doesn’t serve the pro-life movement well at all. It deliberately ignores the complexities of life that drive women to make that choice.

our attention on something so perversely painful to contemplate. It is the exposure to the sunlight of public attention that will continue to sway people more in the direction of being against abortion. For many, they probably assume, if they dare to think about it at all, that women have the procedure with as little fanfare as possible and then go home to recover with feelings of sadness mixed with relief.

To shine the light on people who celebrate the death of innocents will make many view this abomination in a different and altogether more appropriate light. Just like the “memorial service” that George Tiller offered at his aboritorium, a stomach turning notion if I ever saw one and one that I found breathtaking in its hypocrisy. It’s my personal belief that our acceptance as a nation of this practice for the past 30+ years is one of the biggest reasons why we are facing the utter ruin of our country at this juncture. You cannot build something good on the bodies of innocent children killed for convenience.

More than anything, liberals have no regard for the freedom of those that cannot speak and/or fight for themselves. Abortion is just another example of this truth.

Conservatives want to help those that cannot help themselves. Liberals want to help those that won’t help themselves.

never has it been so perfectly applied as you just did it. And it has even more meaning to me now.

I’ve never heard of such a party, but it is disgusting just the same. Thanks for the story.