Year-in-review: All the ghoulish abortion propaganda that’s fit to print
The New York Times ends the year as it began: spreading ghoulish abortion propaganda.
On New Year’s Eve last year, the NYT’s own ombudsman (who no longer works there now) exposed a false, sloppy, and unrepentant pro-abortion propaganda packaged as a New York Times Magazine cover story on abortion in El Salvador by freelance writer Jack Hitt. The sensational piece alleged that women there had been thrown in prison for 30-year terms for having had abortions. Hitt described his visit to one of them, inmate Carmen Climaco. “She is now 26 years old, four years into her 30-year sentence” for aborting an 18-week-old fetus.
Turned out Climaco was convicted of infanticide; the main source for Hitt’s story (which he did not disclose) was a pro-abortion group that would profit from legalized abortion in El Salvador since it sells abortion vacuum aspirators; and court documents exposing Climaco’s lies were (contrary to Hitt’s claims) readily available and accessible.
To book-end the year with all the ghoulish abortion propaganda that’s fit to print, the NYT last week printed this chilling and stomach-turning essay by University of Iowa writing professor Brian Goedde, who shares his festive thoughts on his girlfriend’s abortion on New Year’s Eve a few year’s ago:
It’s New Year’s Eve a few years back: candles are lighted in Emily’s “cozy one-bedroom” apartment, iTunes shifts seamlessly from the Magnetic Fields to Maria Callas to Nina Simone, and although we love to look out her second-story windows at the packs of people clamoring between bars and parties, and although we half-made plans to go to bars and parties ourselves, there’s no way we’re going out. The abortion is scheduled for two days from now, and we’re holing up.
We don’t, however, want to cancel the holiday altogether. Emily found a recipe for Chinese dumplings — pork (we use Gimme Lean soy mush), green cabbage, green onions, soy sauce and sesame oil, wrapped up in little purselike pastries. They’re eaten on the Chinese New Year, Emily says, in order to bring good fortune. Good fortune for our childless year.
Goedde spends more time worrying about the fate of the New Year’s dumplings he and his girlfriend are cooking than the fate of the unborn life he helped create. He relates how they told lies to keep their private decision private–well, except for the fact that he blabbed about it to score a byline in the NYTimes:
Over the course of the evening, a few friends call. Each time I say something like, “You know, we were going to go out, but Emily’s just not feeling well.”
This is true. She has been nauseated for almost a month. I tell them, “We’re just going to stay in and stay warm.”
Emily listens carefully from the other room. The abortion is no one’s business but ours, we’ve decided.
Then there’s this twisted bit of illogic in the girlfriend’s refusal to drink champaign because it might, well, harm the unborn baby they’re about to get rid of:
At midnight we’re thankful for the partygoers who haven’t reached their destinations. Shouts of “Happy new year!” come up to us from the rolling party on the sidewalk. I take our Champagne to the window and pop it; we kiss, toasting, “To us.”
Emily has only a sip. She doesn’t want to drink while pregnant. “It’s just not something you do,” she says. Even though the pregnancy is scheduled to be terminated in two days, there’s still something — someone? — inside of her she doesn’t want to hurt. I’m utterly baffled but mask it with a respectful, if distant, “O.K.” I don’t want to ruin the mood.
Could it get worse? Yes:
We do the dishes, blow out the candles, put a teaspoon handle down the Champagne bottle’s neck (to keep the carbonation — it seems to work) and put the bottle in the fridge, brush our teeth, climb into bed and have unprotected sex.
“I’m not going to get more pregnant,” Emily says.
I’ve never felt pleasure more guiltily.
At least he didn’t disguise his reckless self-indulgence with the environmental sanctimony of the “Save the Planet! Kill your fetus” miscreants.
“The fewer the merrier,” you know.
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The concept of Brian Goedde being a responsible parent is sickening - with due respect the girlfriend would not win any kudos either.
Two self indulgent ’souls’ wandering through the universe.
Yeah, don’t want to harm the baby you’re going to kill in a couple days. Why rush things? Morons. If there ever was a more disgusting example of the selfish, unthinking reasoning behind the majority of abortions, I haven’t seen it yet.
Why do I get this strange feeling that HE wanted the abortion more than Emily?
They want to keep the abortion private but write about it in the New York Times?
Is there a better illustration of outright hypocrisy and selfishness among liberals? Either keep it secret or blab about it to the world.
Don’t pretend to suffer like a martyr and say you’re hiding the decision and then go public with a big splash in the Times. That’s incomprehensible - to normal people.
I am going to go get ill now! Happy new year indeed?
Speaking as someone who was confronted with that situation 10 years or so ago, I feel for the couple. There isn’t a day when I don’t feel the pain. Some people write, some people try in vain to use humor as a defense mechanism, or some people sit silently as they are crying inside. There is only one judge and it is not us. We are not God or His Son Jesus Christ.
We may not agree with what they have done but we sin by judging them. We are not God. I regret what happened in my life … cloud nine one day and then a lifetime of sadness.
There’s no contradiction there. Have you seen the NYT’s circulation figures?
All,
When I read Goedde, the lyrics to “When I Die” from Blood,Sweat and Tears, keeps coming to my mind…and when I die and when I’m gone, there will be one more child in this world to carry on…I swear there ain’t no heaven but I pray there ain’t no Hell. I don’t wanna go by satan, don’t wanna die uneasy, I just wanna go naturally…
Celebrating the death of the unborn? Not me, I don’t wanna die uneasy.
Actually I am happy when liberals have abortions since the nut usually does not fall far from the tree. I don’t even have a problem with federally funded abortions since its much cheaper on the taxpayer to abort a baby than to have it be born and live like Mrs Jasper…
http://michellemalkin.com/2007/12/22/the-shut-up-white-boy-woman-is-the-slum-dweller-with-a-60-inch-tv/
May God forgive them and welcome the unborn to His Heavenly Home.
reverenddon…don’t we sin also when we abort a child??? You say, “…a lifetime of sadness”…when all you could have done was put the child up for adoption, and given a lifetime of happiness to both a CHILD and a PARENT…
The moronic professor wants it both ways. He claims that his girlfriend’s abortion is “nobody’s business but our’s”. Then he write an oped piece for the NY Times, for which he gets paid, and for which he knows has a readership in the millions (counting on line readers). So after claiming that he is agonizing about how he and his GF want their privacy, he brags about his “moral courage” to an audience of millions. This professor wants the whole world to feel sympathy for him and to congratulate him for his alleged “courage”. The man obviously craves attention. He reminds me of the kid in grammar school who has a broken bone and keeps his cast on and his sling on as long as he can get attention and sympathy. The professor seems to think that the whole world is interested in his recipe for dumplings. Heck any cook at the local Chinese takeout knows the recipes for dumplings. Maybe the prof and his GF will have belgian endives and tofu for their postabortion party.
#10: On December 24th, 2007 at 11:57 am, zorro said:
“May God forgive them and welcome the unborn to His Heavenly Home.”
Amen.
#8 On December 24th, 2007 at 11:33 am, Laree said:
“All,
When I read Goedde, the lyrics to “When I Die” from Blood,Sweat and Tears, keeps coming to my mind…and when I die and when I’m gone, there will be one more child in this world to carry on…I swear there ain’t no heaven but I pray there ain’t no Hell. I don’t wanna go by satan, don’t wanna die uneasy, I just wanna go naturally…
Celebrating the death of the unborn? Not me, I don’t wanna die uneasy.”
I think “And When I Die” is a BS&T cover of a Bille Holliday song.
Listened to the BS&T version in high school, and have ever since (going on 38 years).
Having said that, I agree with you.
Good post.
At the risk of sounding politically incorrect, judgmental, and non-inclusive:
This columnist and his ilk sound like they belong to a different species, in a different dimension.
Sorry, but that’s it.
And God forgive my making a judgment.
reff,
Yes I’d agree that we sin by aborting but my point is it is not up to us to judge. Two wrongs do not make a right.
As to my situation, the ultimate decision comes from the woman as it is her body. She was not ready to face up and grow up (mind you we were both in our 30’s). I was. The truth of the matter is that we can not force our moral code on others.
Disgusting.
You bet I’ll judge the callous, heartless behavior of this gruesome twosome. This wasn’t a rape or two-headed no-brained baby or whatever crazy example pro-aborts like to use in their arguments. They were the sort of people who make the abortionists rich: a selfish man who didn’t want to be connected for life to a woman through a child but was happy to use her for sex and companionship until someone better comes around the corner, and a woman who’s just willing to go along to keep the creep in her life. Worst of all, he brags about it in the freakin’ NYT, which publishes it just in time for the holidays.
reverenddon said,
the twist arrives when you and she realize you forced your moral code on the unborn child you had killed. May God forgive your judgment of death sentence.
the Blessed Mother @ Medjugorje ( FOX is doing a special on this-
1 PM EST on Christmas Eve (12/24/07) and then again at 3 PM EST on Christmas Day.) http://childrenofmedjugorje.com/content/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=47
said,
” All aborted Children are Martyred Saints in Heaven.” I was there, I asked the Question of Viska. I needed to know.
“Bursting the gates of death.”
Steeleye Span - Gaudete
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OBZ8v9L8444&feature=related
but version is even more beautiful!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aW6Rp-tQkSc&feature=related
Eugenicists of the world unite…A great question to pose to all the pro-choice folk: “What base element makes each of us unique? Our DNA. Right. Did you know that from the moment of conception, the cellular mass is imbued with its own unique DNA code separate from that of the mother? Argue as you may, that unique code is the basis for every life. To call it anything else is nothing but a denial of humanity, both your’s and the life of an unborn child should you choose to extinguish its life.”
& this is a GREAT! Choir form the Philippines …because after all, it is Christmas Eve!
http://youtube.com/profile?user=kin3ma
esp. Est Ist Ein Ros’ Entsprungen
Because tonight is about a Baby…
” This little Babe, so few days old
has come to rifle satan’s fold
all hell doth at HIS presence quake
though He, Himself for cold do shake
for in this meek, unarmed guise
the gates of hell He will surprise!” Wm. Blake
Am I the only one who gets the understated (by omission) sadness of this entire piece? Anyone with an ounce of subtlety can tell that the whole point of this piece is regret/sadness. This is his confession, not a callous shrug.
I also suspect this is the author’s way of expressing to his wife, in the most understated way possible, that he feels like the abortion was a bad decision. Symbolism and irony are pretty much all this guy can use to express his feelings, but they are clearly there.
The article focuses on shallow, empty consumerism during the holiday prior to the abortion, and how the writer felt guilty before the the abortion — although he focuses on his guilt about “the stupidest lie ever”.
Now, on another holiday without the child, his thoughts are straying back to the last days before the abortion.
He talks about how carefully his wife orders him to protect the dumplings, which they eventually feed on — I’m pretty sure that’s symbolic of his regret at their willingness to abort their child (which should be protected) just so they can live a more comfortable (well-fed) life.
This isn’t an article bragging about an abortion. It’s telling the story for a reason; to express regret.
He’s not coming out and screaming “my wife and I are evil; we killed our baby!” But that belief is pretty obviously what he’s confessing here, in a very understated way.
Another indicator that he’s rebelling against their decision is that he sets out up-front in the article “The abortion is no one’s business but ours, we’ve decided.” This article is clearly his his complete rebellion against that “decision.”
38 yrs ago I found myself and my sweetheart facing an unwanted pregnancy…for reason i’ll not reveal here we split up. The young woman with influence from her family decided to give birth and adopt out the baby boy.
The short of it is the 2 were reunited 30 yrs after birth…how wonderful that is for both. Oh, the boy grew up to be quite successful in his field…3 wonderful children he loves with all his heart.
Point being, that loving, growing, happy family would never have been if not for the courage of 1 young woman to give birth and then look for her son for 30 yrs till she found him(ironically they lived within 5 miles of each other most of that 30 yrs.).
Thank you Michelle and all your staff for providing us your writings.
Merry Christmas to All
Call me a sinner, I don’t care. They are a sick couple. Sick sick sick.
“Judge not” must be the most misinterpreted bit of scripture in history.
Matthew 7:1-2 reads:
1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
In other words, be careful how you judge - you will be judged the same way.
There is no sin in judgment, nor in condemning someone’s actions.
To be frank, the actions of this pair are beyond sickening. There are no words to describe such callous recklessness with human life. It is simply inhuman.
I cannot “judge” them in that the Good Lord is the ultimate judge and arbiter. But can you judge actions? Yes. But be careful not to judge others too harshly is the message - you’ll be judged the same way for the same mistakes.
This has to be one of the most disgusting and self-centered pieces of written bile I have ever encountered. These sub humans even question whether or not there is “someone” inside of her. Sick. The Dutch diplomat and his wife have now been replaced on my list of 2007’s “Most Cold-Hearted and Self-Absorbed People of the Year” by these two dogs in heat.
CARL SANDBURG
“Empty Vessels” trying to fill themselves up with Chinese Dumplings. Brian will need more then comfort food, this scars a person’s psyche. All the self talk to the contrary, won’t change this life altering event.
That’s right. It’s something she’ll think about every single day of her life.
The most telling quote from Brian Goedde:
Sure dude. It’s not your body nor your mind, who cares, right? Not your problem.
Get a real man, Emily.
I don’t think the only remorse or regrets he feels are caused by the guilt of knowing the abortion was his decision.
She knew what she was doing, and knew how wrong it was. He felt, and feels nothing about the child, only about the way he manipulated his wife.
I will risk being judged by the standard that says abortion is murder.
Liberals love holding their supposed intellectual and moral superiority over other people’s heads. Conservative Sirius Radio show host Andrew Wilkow calls these frauds “psuedo-intellectual esotericists”. Some of the most sadistic members of the Nazi SS in charge of the extermination camps were university professors or held MDs and PHds. You’re a sick man Prof Goedde.
Someone PLEASE tell me that Mr. Hitt’s middle initial is S.
That would surely tell us what he knows.
Hate to break it to you dude but we do force our moral code on others; it’s called the LAW and murder is against the LAW. But I get it - you don’t think aborting a child is murder. That’s where we differ.
I think the fact that she’s not drinking champagne says it all. She wishes that her selfish POS boyfriend would at least consider changing his mind.
If abortion is permissable, why doesn’t the law say that any woman can kill any of her children anytime she wants? Why can she only kill the very youngest? Let’s be reasonable. If one can abort unborn babies (have you ever heard a pregnant woman say ‘I felt the fetus move?’) because it makes life more convenient, then hey; those older kids are bothersome too. Why can’t we just line them up and open fire? Pregnancies are not a bolt from the blue. It takes a very specific act done with reckless abandon to result in a pregnancy. Women want to ‘control their bodies’? I DEMAND women control their bodies. And if they do there will be no unexpected pregnancies, save those resulting from rape, for which there should be special considerations. Except for rape, each abortion is society picking up the check for a woman’s reckless and irresponsible behavior.