"They don't get it." A true story

[trof]

Two of our close friends came over for dinner last night. This otherwise intelligent couple support and voted for Bush. After a few heated discussions early on in the campaign, we agreed not to let politics come into our friendship. Subject closed.

We were enjoying a glass of wine after dessert when they told us about their daughter-in-law's abortion.

To make a long story short, she is a recent immigrant from Hungary. She and our friends' son were married there. In order to immigrate she had to get a lot of vaccinations. She did not know she was pregnant. They announced it during a recent visit. We were all very happy for them and they were on cloud 9.

When they reached the town where they will live, she had her first appointment with an ob/gyn. When they learned of all the vaccinations she'd had while pregnant they ran some tests. The baby would be impaired beyond belief. They chose abortion.

When our friends told us, I caught Miz t.'s eye for several seconds. We didn't speak but we were thinking the same thing. If not for us dirty liberals, their son and his wife would not have had that option. Their parents support the man who would deny them that option.
They just don't get it.

[molly]

1. Most of them don't get it - only when it benefits them - then

it is OK.

[puddycat]

2. I hope you explained that to them! Because we need to wake people up!

People are fucking blind to everything that liberalism has done for them!

[marew]

3. Typical...

Do what I say, not what I do. They expect us to follow their rules which they only follow if it's convenient. Hypocrites!!!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

4. A little "thank goodness it's still legal" would have sufficed

[JimmyJazz]

5. The world is not black and white, but

numerous shades of gray. I am sorry for your friends' son and daughter-in-law - what a heartwrenching decision to abort a wanted child.

[Blue Wally]

7. When you chose a party or candidate

Your choice involves many, many dimensions. Where you stand on abortion/choice/baby-killing is not a yes-no thing, it is a very long spectrum of differing shades of gray. The same goes with gay rights/gay marriage. People have to take into account all of their concerns, be they cultural, economic, security, or others and decide where each party/candidate stands in a large number of political spectra and make their decision. Someone who is primarily driven by health insurance may have voted for Kerry even if on some other areas of concern he might have felt that Bush was better.

[kdmorris]

6. If nothing else,

this election taught me that if you terrorize people enough, they will throw out any sort of logic and run for the familiar.

Makes me want to smack them upside the back of the head.

[buckettgirl]

8. I fear people like that

My husband and I are in a situation of not knowing whether or not to have children. He has had one healthy son who was adopted by foster care and will be 10 years old in the summer. He has had another child in a previous marriage: the baby died at 2 months old, right before Thanksgiving in 98. He has a nephew with severe genetic problems and had niece that died at 8 months old right after his son did. My brother-in-law has taken his son to a geneticist, but they can't figure anything out. They know that the problems are genetic, but beyond that it is unknown. My husband can't bare to lose another child, it would kill him. I can't stand the thought of lifelong misery caring for a child with no quality of life. Of course with technology today, we would know well beforehand if there are severe genetic defects...in which case we would terminate.
What are we to do?
We have looked into adoption, but we can't afford that and probably won't ever be able to.
It saddens me to know that because someone else doesn't get it, we have to chose between never having children or taking a high risk of having a child die or have no quality of life.
Will they be there to adopt it, to take away the pain, to pay for the medical expenses, to pay for a funeral?
No, of course not.;(

[trof]

9. The irony and hypocrisy was astounding,

but all four of us teared up and it was not the time for political pronouncements. Maybe later.

[THUNDER HANDS]

10. i don't see how you cannot hate these people

We annoy them. They scare the F out of us.

Fuck prolifers and their sanctimonious bullshit. If half of them thought through their fucking opinions they'd see they were morons.

I did.

Magic Rat - Registered Republican from 1996-2000.