Reading this article about her born again conversion at the age of 33 made me wonder what happened to her that she would suddenly feel a need to dedicate her life to Christ. Could she have been an alchoholic like Bush? Or, is it more likely that she had an abortion? Many women who had to seek "private abortions" and given Harriet's age, I assume it would have been more likely a "private abortion" suffered terrible guilt afterwards, wondering if they did the right thing. There was a terrible stigma and one often didn't tell anyone keeping it from friends and family.
I wonder if her conversion due to terrible guilt for what she had done and she's spent her life trying to make up for it. I've known women who had abortions who completely turned against the right of women to choose thinking that they had made a mistake and they didn't want any other women to make the same mistake. That she never married could be that her experience caused such bitterness that it turned her off to all men and sex for the rest of her life. It happens...
If this is true about Miers i.e. unhappy love affair, a date rape or whatever, and she had an abortion and is angry and bitter about it, then she's definitely going to be willing to overturn Roe vs. Wade. And, it would explain her relationship with the Chimp. They both have terrible guilt in their past for behaviors that they feel they had to root out of their psyche's.
This is just my speculation..having seen this with some women I've known.
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Religious conversion redefined nominee's worldview
By Julia Duin
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
October 5, 2005
Like George W. Bush, who at 39 made a similar life-changing decision in the summer of 1985 during an encounter with the Rev. Billy Graham, Miss Miers was looking for a spiritual change. She was 33.
Nathan Hecht, then a fellow lawyer at the Dallas law firm of Locke, Purnell, Boren, Laney & Neely and now an associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court, played the piano at Valley View. They began to go out together, and one day he invited her to church.
"She had made partner, had a great practice, lots of clients, making a good living, the works," Justice Hecht said. "She got to thinking about her life: 'Is this all there is?' She decided she wanted a stronger faith."
The two "argued about it some," he recalls, and one day, she "came down the hallway to say she had made a decision. She had made a personal commitment
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Not only did this affect her financially -- "If you see her tax returns, you'll see she gives 15 percent to the church," Justice Hecht said -- but it also transformed her views on issues such as abortion.
"After her conversion, she thought more about things in a serious way. She realized life begins at conception. Taking a life after conception was serious business, and therefore you could not do it without a good reason," the judge said.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20051005-122400-8922r.htm