It’s called moral degeneracy, and Slate’s Hanna Rosin has it.
Abortion is a social good. So stand up and say it: http://t.co/s4OyKJYEAE pic.twitter.com/tc2jNYcM4v
— Slate (@Slate) October 13, 2014
In the sickeningly titled “Abortion is Great,” Rosin discusses “Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights,” a new book by Katha Pollitt arguing “that the left needs to stop the ‘awfulization’ of abortion and embrace it as a social good.” Here’s how Rosin kicks things off:
I had an abortion. I was not in a libertine college-girl phase, although frankly it’s none of your business. I was already a mother of two, which puts me in the majority of American women who have abortions. Six out of 10 are mothers, which makes sense, because a mother could not fool herself into believing that having another baby was no big deal.
The entire piece is stomach-turning, but Rosin’s final paragraph is particularly horrific:
Several years after I had the abortion, I had a third child. Part of me thinks the shadow aborted child stayed with me and created a space for the last one to be born. Does this mean I was plagued by abortion “regret,” as pro-life activists claim, or haunted by my decision? Of course not. I never felt like I had done something awful. The truth is, I hardly thought about it after I did it, because I was too busy working and raising two small children. Like Pollitt said about the pro-lifers, I recognize that the fetus and the mother have a complicated relationship without being able to fully articulate what that is. The aborted fetus hung around as a concept, nothing at all like the living children I already had. Having an abortion left me with a sense of what a great power it is to be able to give life but also a sense that I can trust myself to use it carefully. (Emphasis is Twitchy’s.)
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It takes a special kind of depravity to come to such a cold, cruel conclusion.
Are you serious? MURDER is not good. RT @Slate: Abortion is a social good. So stand up and say it: http://t.co/7lBHvfclfh
— Mary #FlyTheW (@mchastain81) October 13, 2014
Anyone who thinks abortion is great is a VERY horrible person. This woman is a MOTHER. http://t.co/BkW5nkFeZK
— Mary #FlyTheW (@mchastain81) October 13, 2014
The murder of babies is TOTES great for the social good. I imagine the author loves Hitler & his Final Solution. http://t.co/BkW5nkFeZK
— Mary #FlyTheW (@mchastain81) October 13, 2014
I think I’m going to puke. Even when I was pro-abortion I didn’t think it was great or celebrated it. http://t.co/BkW5nkFeZK
— Mary #FlyTheW (@mchastain81) October 13, 2014
This woman has TWO KIDS. How can a MOTHER think abortion is great?! I just….no. NO. pic.twitter.com/i6oFXSBffy
— Mary #FlyTheW (@mchastain81) October 13, 2014
ABORTION IS GREAT should not EVER come out of the mouth of a mother. pic.twitter.com/I6fuaRkq7o
— Mary #FlyTheW (@mchastain81) October 13, 2014
Never.
https://twitter.com/robinbmurphy/status/521723047238049792
https://twitter.com/davidharsanyi/status/521741607515992064
https://twitter.com/AndrewCQuinn/status/521747046022144001
Evil. RT via @Slate: "Abortion is a social good. So stand up and say it: http://t.co/6Yc1ukQ0IR pic.twitter.com/iozyFrXNKV
— Janet Mefferd (@JanetMefferd) October 14, 2014
Monstrous. RT @winterjessica: Abortion is a social good, so stand up and say it. Fantastic piece by @hannarosin. http://t.co/YFMWGrLQnT
— Melanie (@CityMelzer) October 13, 2014
Depraved –> "Having an abortion left me w/a sense of what a great power it is to be able to give life…" http://t.co/4rur6mvDcE
— Princess Consuela Banana-Hammock (@kimmie_c_) October 13, 2014
And they say we shouldn't call them "pro-abortion" "@Slate: Abortion is a social good. So stand up and say it"
— James Hayes (@jamesfhayes) October 13, 2014
But that’s what they are. The truth hurts.
https://twitter.com/hboulware/status/521723764363776000
When I was a #Democrat the cry was #Abortion should be safe, legal and rare. This article should disgust all of us.http://t.co/MJFIVOcwQO
— Marc T Grove (@MarcTGroveSr) October 13, 2014
https://twitter.com/EmShaeEvans/status/521809606495182849
I think the reason most people look on abortion as a bad thing is that most people aren't sociopaths. http://t.co/0T40XDX2OL
— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) October 13, 2014
@mchastain81 @lrc328 I must say, when it comes to abortion, the "Party of Science" are the ones insisting that the world is flat.
— Seth (@dcseth) October 13, 2014
The moral depravity of pro-abortionist means they must tout abortion as a 'social good' so they can sleep at night https://t.co/fwtKnrJdJb
— FrogDoc (@TueborFrog) October 13, 2014
“@Slate: Abortion is a social good. So stand up and say it: http://t.co/oYFQpY43FU pic.twitter.com/urDojSBp7l” this makes me so upset. Disgusted
— default girl mii (@girl_default) October 14, 2014
Great power? Murder. “Having an abortion left me with a sense of what a great power it is to be able to give life” http://t.co/lTS4qtTJjJ”
— ?????? ???????? ?????? (@GTHorton) October 13, 2014
NO, abortion is vile & evil!!! RT @Slate: Abortion is a social good. So stand up and say it: http://t.co/q7nZi6Iodp pic.twitter.com/AUkTpMynSp
— Shawn (@ShawnLivingLife) October 13, 2014
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