Monday, October 5, 2009

Abortion – a life saving opportunity


By Meredith S. Layer

Let me tell you a story. This story takes place every day all over the world and so you are likely to know the characters of the story, or know someone who knows the characters. Who knows, your sister might be a character or you might even star in it yourself. The story is about a young woman who is seduced by a particularly older male who, in reminiscence of his lost youth, lusts the body of the younger woman. Things get heated, some drinks might have been involved and the woman becomes pregnant. Of course, the male, wise and experienced as he is, stays with the woman, comforts her, builds somewhat the foundations of a relationship and maybe even takes her on a trip to Europe. During all his endurances, he tries to persuade the woman to do the sensible thing and get an abortion of the child. The woman, young, naive and foolish as she is, rejects the idea and gives birth to the child which causes the male character to disappear. Within the first few months after birth, the woman realises the huge responsibility and maturity involved with raising a child in this godforsaken world, cracks under the pressure, gets committed, her child is taken away and two lives were thus ruined. How many lives were saved?

4 comments:

  1. This article written by a pro-abortionist for a womens magazine is based on the Hemmingway story Hills Like White Elephants.

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  2. S. Layer--> Slayer... clever!!!
    But nice approach to WG 4

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  3. Good two-for-one in terms of the genre and the use of the Hills-story. The attitude of the writer persona you embody is a little unclear, in my opinion. Could one be provocative and suggest that the man's life was saved?

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  4. Yes, the man's life was saved, but that was because of his choise to leave the environment where a wrong decision was made. And as Meredith leaves the part about the man out, it becomes a little bit clearer that she is a pro-abortionist. Her name was chosen because of the general huge exaduration of the topic by anti-abortionists.

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