Pastor Defends Having a Late-Term Abortion: “It Was the Right Course of Action for Me”

[Panich52]

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Pastor Defends Having a Late-Term Abortion: “It Was the Right Course of Action for Me”

OPINION
MICAIAH BILGER OCT 26, 2016

Another woman with a painful pregnancy story defended her late-term abortion this week in reaction to Donald Trump’s remarks at the last presidential debate.

During the Oct. 19 debate, Trump exposed the brutal nature of late-term abortions and the extremism of pro-abortion challenger Hillary Clinton, who supports late-term and partial-birth abortions up until birth.

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The Rev. Dr. Amy Butler responded to Trump’s comments in a column for USA Today this week, explaining why she chose a late-term abortion for her daughter.

“As I heard Donald Trump talk about babies being ‘ripped’ from their mothers’ wombs, as if ending a pregnancy is a reckless, irresponsible afterthought, my outrage poured down my face in angry tears,” Butler wrote. “In those moments, Trump, who has never been pregnant and presumably has navigated this far in his life without undertaking any difficult, gut-wrenching, gray-area decisions, used my own pain — deep, deep pain — to advance his political agenda.”

A minister at The Riverside Church in New York City, Butler said her decision to abort her daughter “ended a dream” for her and her husband. She described how excited she was when they found out that they were having a second child, a girl.

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They told her that her unborn baby girl had a potentially fatal developmental problem and probably was in pain. She also learned that her own life was in danger if she continued the pregnancy to full term. The doctors gave her three options: abort, deliver the baby early, or wait.
Butler said she was heartbroken, but she did not think twice. She decided to abort her unborn daughter.

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[Thinkingabout]

1. These decisions have been faced many times, Trump is playing to his base, his statements were

terrible, he needs to be educated on many issues.

[BlueStreak]

2. You think education would help that man?

I don't. He believes anything he wants to believe. He says anything he want to say. And he grabs anything he wants to grab. That is the life achievement of this man. He isn't likely to change now.

I have a friend who has a professional job in the Baptist church. His daughter had a pregnancy that was very likely to kill her and very unlikely to produce a viable child. They didn't have an abortion, mind you. They saw a doctor who terminated the pregnancy, which is different.

And the irony is that because of the work of Baptists and other crazy people, this woman could not legally get that medical care in our state. They had to travel to the next state for this thing we won't call an abortion.

[Panich52]

3. He's not only one ...

Response on Twitter, where I found the article, was mostly from hard-core antis, excoriating her ("pastor? Hah" & "she's not a person of god&quot . They were only concerned w/ her "murder." Even those who claimed to have actually read the article had no sympathy f/ woman who was concerned not just w/ herself but the pain the fetus was suffering.

Christians? I think not.

[BlueStreak]

4. They don't give a shit about "life"

Bunch of damned hypocrites. Almost all of them have been in favor of every use of force that this country has done in their lifetimes. Drones that kill thousands of innocents? No problem. Carpet bombing 100,000 Iraqi civilians? No problem.

And do you ever hear any of their voices in support of getting better health care for millions of Americans? Better pre-natal care for those fetuses that are so worked up about? Do you ever see this crowd stand up to corporations that put out unsafe products or chemicals that kill people?

The only life they care about is their own and everybody else's zygotes.

White evangelical Christian lives matter.

[Ilsa]

5. They believe terminating the pregnancy is different

From having an abortion? How delusional. I guess only bad girls have abortions. Abortions are for whores and women having affairs or sex selection according to these people.

[BlueStreak]

6. But not for black women. Black women want to have all the kids they possibly can

for welfare payments, right? These people have really sick, twisted minds. If they would actually go and meet some "others" they would find out in 15 minutes that most of their racist stereotypes are just plain wrong.