Kourtney Kardashian: Reality Star Chooses Life
by John NolteThis is an amazing story. Not because Kourtney Kardashian, a reality television star, chose not to abort her child, but rather her willingness to candidly discuss the evolution of her thinking as she mulled her “choice.” I’ve emphasized the most powerful parts of her statement; the parts that must sound like nails on a chalkboard to an abortion industry not used to this kind of thing from young, female celebrities:
“I definitely thought about it long and hard, about if I wanted to keep the baby or not, and I wasn’t thinking about adoption,” … “I do think every woman should have the right to do what they want, but I don’t think it’s talked through enough. I can’t even tell you how many people just say, ‘Oh, get an abortion.’ Like it’s not a big deal.” …
I looked online, and I was sitting on bed hysterically crying, reading these stories of people who felt so guilty from having an abortion,” she recalls. “I was reading these things of how many people are traumatized by it afterwards.”
After scouring the Internet, Kardashian says she started to realize that an abortion wasn’t an option for her. “I was just sitting there crying, thinking, ‘I can’t do that,’” she says. “And I felt in my body, this is meant to be. God does things for a reason, and I just felt like it was the right thing that was happening in my life.”
Kardashian says she did some intense soul-searching. “For me, all the reasons why I wouldn’t keep the baby were so selfish: It wasn’t like I was raped, it’s not like I’m 16. I’m 30 years old, I make my own money, I support myself, I can afford to have a baby. And I am with someone who I love, and have been with for a long time.”
Not saying I’m right or even that someone hasn’t already done so, but the obvious effect on Kardashian after she learned about women ”traumatized afterwards” only reinforces a long held belief that the most effective anti-abortion documentary would be one involving women living with what must be a terrible burden of regret and guilt — who after some years pass and a little maturity settles in are now faced with the true enormity of a monstrous act that can no longer be rationalized away.
It only makes sense that there are plenty of good and decent women out there who were once young, fell for the feminist line and now live with the horrific realization that for the sake of convenience they killed their own child. In the hands of a compassionate and intelligent documentary filmmaker, the gathering and recording of those testimonials would be a persuasive way to give others a glimpse into their own future and convince them to consider adoption.
Those who believe in legalized abortion but claim to want fewer abortions should find this kind of approach perfectly acceptable, right? Right…?
Most of what springs from our toxic celebrity culture affirms only that the apocalypse is near, so hopefully Ms. Kardashian’s affirmation of life will get the attention it deserves.
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I'm very impressed by her,in my opinion she is the Kardashian worth the hype.
My friend had an abortion when she was 20. She didn't tell anyone about it until afterwards. She was in a terrible place in her life at the time and I imagine that the abortion seemed to be the best option to her. However, she felt such a tremendous guilt and longing afterwards. That is not something that is talked about in polite circles – the tremendous sense of agony and regret that can occur.
My friend had an abortion when she was 20. She didn't tell anyone about it until afterwards. She was in a terrible place in her life at the time and I imagine that the abortion seemed to be the best option to her. However, she felt such a tremendous guilt and longing afterwards. That is not something that is talked about in polite circles – the sense of agony and regret that can occur.
Women who give up their babies for adoption have the same guilt feelings. Usually the trigger is seeing a mother with a child approximately the same age.
Brava to Kourtney!
I have so much respect for this young woman. She will be a wonderful Mother, wait and see.
When I was 14 and a sophomore in high school, my best friend got pregnant and decided she wanted an abortion.
I tried to talk her out of it, even volunteering that my parents would take the baby, but she was convinced that abortion was her only option. So wanting to be "supportive" of my friend, I got on a bus with her, headed to the city, waited in the dingy waiting room, escorted her home and kept her secret. It wasn't even my abortion and I still feel guilty about it more than thirty years later.
How can a 14 year old get an abortion without her parents being informed? I can tell you, we were both too dang young to be handling that by ourselves. I should have told her parents. I wish I would have.
I don't think it's quite the same. They may feel guilty, but it's not the same.
Good for her! She will not regret her decision to choose life. I have friends suffering to this day over abortions they had in their younger years. The guilt and anguish never goes away and they have often used drugs and lots of alcohol to cope. I am very proud of Ms. Kardashian. This baby will surely be the love of her life.
I disagree with this. I gave my child the only chance at a life by giving him to a loving family. Back in those days, you had to earn the right to raise another's child. I would guess that most birth mothers are happy with the chance at life their kids got by an unselfish act of love for 3 people.
I agree with you JohnJ. At least if the baby was adopted, there is still a chance. Once a baby is aborted, it's final. There are many people reunited w/families later in life that were given up for adoption. My friends who have had abortions feel like murderers and are haunted by their choice. Adoption may cause guilt, but not that kind of guilt.
Wow, a Kardashian actually uses her brains. Good for her. I am not impressed with them but she does have my respect. Good girl.
This woman at this moment in time has been chosen for greatness by choosing life. We are fighting for our country and our health care against the worst bill that will promote and fund abortions and other very bad things that will affect all our lives. I sit here and smile at how God works, yes I said it, God is awesome and we need to fight as hard as we can to stop this horrible, horrible bill. God bless Kourtney and her new family.
A lovely surprise. I am sure she wouldn't have even announced her pregnancy unless she knew she would raise her child.
John, I think your proposed documentary would be an excellent tool for the pro-life community to use. As you say, it does not have to be heavy-handed to be powerful.
Don't know who this woman is, but Kudos for choosing life.
Good for her – it's her choice and she obviously spent a great deal of time thinking about it.
John Nolte wrote:
It only makes sense that there are plenty of good and decent women out there who were once young, fell for the feminist line and now live with the horrific realization that for the sake of convenience they killed their own child. In the hands of a compassionate and intelligent documentary filmmaker, the gathering and recording of those testimonials would be a persuasive way to give others a glimpse into their own future and convince them to consider adoption.
Actually, there already is such a documentary being filmed by Operation Outcry. Their site can be found below:
http://www.operationoutcry.org/
This is a brilliant way to use art to promote life not death.
Wow….
First Johnny Depp saying he wants to teach his kids how to use guns, and now a Kardashian choosing life over abortion. Could it be that some Hollywood stars are….waking up?
The fact that the world is now set to have ANOTHER generation of Kardashians stumbling around is probably the best argument FOR abortion I've ever heard…
Ah well. For those keeping track, the "socially-conservative semi-celebrity" list NOW includes "anti-semitic has-been taking pity work from Jodie Foster," "comedienne who PEAKED in 'UHF," "grating wife from Raymond" and now "dumb-as-a-bag-of-hammer-reality-TV-waste-of-skin." Reach for the stars, kids.
I've always been amused by the fact that a 14 year old girl can get an abortion without even telling her parents, but a nurse at a grade school isn't even allowed to give a student an aspirin without getting her parents permission.
She actually had the child?! Quick! Palinize her!
It just doesn't make any sense!
As a close friend of a couple who just adopted in April, I can't thank you enough for your choice. Adoption really is one of the most unselfish things a birth mom can do.
She is to be commended for choosing life. Nothing is more precious than an innocent, beautiful baby! But why is she being celebrated for that? My prayers are with her child and so many other children who find themselves in a world they do not understand.
Good job, Kourtney. The regret never leaves you. Just ask the poor ladies at Silent No More.
Of course you would feel guilt. You would have hired someone to kill your own flesh and blood.
There's nothing courageous in abortion. Only fear, cowardice, hate, greed, selfishness or all of the above.
Speaking as an adoptee there is good and bad with adoption. Your baby will always feel cut off from their birth heritage, and there is actual psychological trauma from the separation. In many cases they will be fish out of water, even when they understand that adoption WAS the best solution. I would urge women to strongly consider keeping their babies, or at the very least, an OPEN adoption. Only six states in this country allow adult adoptees to access their original birth certificates. For the rest of us, it's a big lie. Our birth certificates are frauds. We must go to great expense to find our birth heritage. Anyone who is going to promote adoption should know this reality and get behind open records laws. I do have friends who have become parents through open adoption. While awkward, perhaps, open adoption is best for the kids. I would love to meet my birth mom before it's too late.
I agree, good for Kourtney!
I know conservatives have to take their mainstream/pop culture pro-life examples where they can get them but seriously? A Kardashian? Clearly none of you knows much about the family–a more vapid bunch famous for absolutely nothing I haven't seen in quite a while. I'm sort of surprised as I was when Bristol Palin got pregnant. I always thought conservatives were disapproving when children were born out of wedlock, and yet there's apparently no criticism, just praise. Is this the example for youth? It's ok to get pregnant as long as you have the child? Ah well, at least she had the freedom to make her choice, and her child has the advantage of being a rich little b***ard.
Good for her,her baby, and boyfriend.
First MTV's "15 and Pregnant" , on which pregnant teens choose life,
now Kourtney, 30 & pregnant ,chooses life.
This is a good trend.
Never mind the emo approach! Do what I was throw into and show the video of the bags and bags and bags of dead babies behind the killing..Abortion clinic. One of the "nurses" while carrying a bag had it tear open a little and she left a trail of blood behind her to the "Biological Hazard" dump. She was so embarrassed with that mess and hurried back for a mop…
The film crew moved over to the dump and showed it three quarters filled of bags of reddish goo.. no, sorry. Dead Babies.
Show that to the little kiddies and make sure they all know what the true cost of murdering babies is all about. I saw this when I was around 12 when I lived in Thailand. It was a International School so I don't know why this was shown since most of the kids shrugged it off, because a year later I found to know that many would skip off the school grounds to a tut tut or water taxi to the closest bar for lunch! Sex was prevalent and even something as "trivial" as a mound of dead babies can't stop the fun!
So maybe a little bit of emo might help.. but I somehow doubt it.
Jay Seculow calls it the abortion distortion factor. What makes sense normally just flies out the window when abortion is under discussion.
I just don't get the thought process of abortion on one hand and keeping the baby on the other, but adoption isn't even a consideration? Does she think it's worse then death? What's she got against adoption?
Well, George Tiller…
Of course, a lot has changed since you and your friend's experience.
They no longer have "dingy waiting rooms". I understand they're nicely appointed with soft lighting and fish tanks and Mozart playing in the background. So you'd feel much better about it, now. Or maybe not.
I absolutely agree with your point: a 14 year old can't go to an "R" rated movie without a parent or adult guardian (theoretically), they can't get a learners' permit to drive with an adult in the car, but they can make this decision without their parents' knowledge or involvement?
Of course, the liberal knee-jerk defense will be that in some situations it isn't safe for the minor to tell her parents. That's true enough, although that would certainly represent a minority of cases. In that event, Child Protective Services may need to become involved (the issue would be incest, rape, or physical abuse, not the simple fact of the child's pregnancy). But that is not sufficient justification for this blanket policy to continue to exist.
I hesitated to answer the original post because I too have a lot of ambivalence about being adopted and feel the disconnect you mention. The family I grew up in has had a lot of issues with addiction and abuse, so it wasn't often the best environment. But when I was adopted (40 years ago) there wasn't the same kind of demand as there is today and I certainly didn't get the impression from my mom that there was all that much scrutiny. I'm sure that's not the impression my birth mother was given but I suppose it's best that she believes only good things so she won't regret her decision– Lord know I'm glad abortion wasn't legal yet.
And you're certainly right about the way the process is for older adoptees. I may never be able to find my biological mother. But then, I never want to assume that she wants to be found. If nothing else, this is a complex topic that could lead to a looong digression.
I wish I could only find it amusing.
Actually, that sounds like the casting list for "Dancing with the Stars".
I know you're being facetious, but that wouldn't be an argument for abortion in any case; it would be an argument for mandatory sterilization.
Well, that was depressing.
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There's so much ugly in that comment I don't know where to start.
It's too bad she couldn't reason it out herself and needed sad stories to basically be sales-pitched to have the baby.
"The fact that the world is now set to have ANOTHER generation of Kardashians stumbling around is probably the best argument FOR abortion I've ever heard…"
I just wanted to quote that so everyone could see what kind of a$$hole you are.
Yup. Next we will be hearing about how stupid she is and how difficult she is to work with.
I was one of those traumatized young girls. I was a 21-year old college student, with a minimum wage job and parents that would have tossed me to the wolves, so I made a heart shattering decision. I remember waking up in the room and crying hysterically because my baby was gone. I went home like nothing happened and then the darkness set in. My boyfriend didn't recognize me. I didn't recognize myself and I alienated everyone around me. The physical pain I felt was nothing I felt before. I choked on my pain because I didn't want anyone to know what I had done. The following months I had nightmares about my baby and eventually stopped sleeping all together. The depression lingered for about 2 years and while I THINK I'm better now, the GUILT and regret stings. Every time I see a young child or I read a story like this, it all comes pouring back. While I've moved on, the memory is never too far away. I agree, there needs to be a documentary featuring girls who have experienced this. It's important that women are supplied not only with a CHOICE but INFORMATION from women like myself who have real life knowledge. They only tell you about the physical complications you may endure. No one told me about the mental and emotional parts. I'm glad Kourtney made the right choice, even though I don't get why a 30-year old, with means of caring for a child and a long-term relationship would even consider different. My choice came out of real life fears of being able to care for my child. What was her fears? No more parties in Miami?
I think most women feel that afterwards and it doesn't go away. Organizations like Planned Parenthood are dishonest. I remember driving to school in the morning and wishing my car would just take a sharp right off the bridge. I HATED myself and I wished God would just take me. Death would have been easier than living with the secret and the guilt I walked with. Young girls need to know about this.
"God does things for a reason"….He certainly does Ms.Kourtney. He's singing that old John Lennon peacenik song into your ear with different lyrics. All I am Saying… is give Life a Chance. Good Luck Dear.
She considered it because she was taught to consider it, and surrounded by those who accepted "it was no big deal" as they have been taught.
But you know better, and far too many know better. This is the time to get the word out, to force the truth to be taught. You are doing your part of the battle, and doing it well.
Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.
Saw this posted on a wall while my mother was waiting for some blood tests, looked like it had been copied so often for so many years only the large script kept it readable. Considered putting it on an open thread, never did. Now I know why, it belongs here.
Heh, over a week later and I can finally contemplate the deep meanings without tearing up. Until I read this article and these comments.
When you speak of "dumb as a bag of hammers" you really know that one- from experience, no doubt- you are the argument for retro- active aborts. At least then we would KNOW we were doing the right thing, not just the convenient thing.
In Japan it is. In fact, there seems to me to be even more of a stigma against adoption in Japan than there is against abortion — not only are you giving up something that's your own flesh and blood, but something that's tangibly and unambiguously alive. I know of few people, except Peter Singer, who would deny that a newborn child who's managed to escape the womb is a living creature with rights of its own.
Oh, I see, if you choose life you've been "sales-pitched", but if you kill your baby, your what? Enlightened like you Dima?
Hateful hater.
Maybe this speech inspired her to keep her baby:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaLPEoAoV2g&fe...
How many politicians are this honest and candid? Why she inspires so many.
I SECOND THIS!!!! As an adoptee – hear her hear her!!!
The main mistake people who are not adopted think is that the only emotion afforded an adoptee is gratitude. Im grateful for many things, and I know Who to be grateful to…but the underpinning issue for an adoptee is not gratitude, its grief…and how that grief is dealt with. I think once people start looking at the situation through the eyes of someone dealing with grief, they will understand the situation better.
Have you ever seen "Keeping up with the Kardashians"? I fear for this child.
I am glad she is keeping the baby! Good on Ms. Kardashian!
Trust me, none of the Kardashian girls will ever be MENSA members.
They aren't the sharpest knifes in the drawer.
A very wise man told me "abortion is a sin, not a crime". The "state" should stay out of this issue. Let God handle it.
It seems to me those on the anti-choice side of the issue don't trust that God will or can handle it.
Wanting to keep that extension of herself near her. Wanting to keep her own flesh and blood. Its perfectly human and rational to want that.
I think this family is getting a huge Karma payback for Daddy helping getting off OJ for the Brentwood murders.
I just don't get it. How can any woman reason that abortion is just a medical procedure. What it really is, a sacrificial offering at the altar of convenience. Abortion is the result of a generation of self-absorbed people exalting their own self-absorption.
I was 17 when I got pregnant. Abortion was never a consideration, I gave my daughter up for adoption. Now, 25 years later, I have become friends with her adoptive mom and gotten to know my daughter and granddaughter.
I have no idea who the person is who said that women who give up their children experience guilt also, but that certainly isn't my experience. Grief? Heck yeah. No guilt, not one time. I missed my daughter every single day from the time I left the hospital without her to the day we met one month after she turned 18. I thought about her every day.
I have no regrets, no anger over my decision. She is an awesome adult, well able to contribute much. She is also totally aware that 1/3 of her generation are gone, dead from abortions. She is very grateful I carried her to term, grateful I gave her up to better parents than I could have been at that time, she is, bluntly, grateful for her life. How can I possibly feel guilty for that?
What is wrong with pro-abortion people? When my husband and I learned we were expecting, the timing couldn't have been worse. (We were in the middle of changing jobs and moving across the country– meaning no health insurance for our "pre-existing condition".) The nurse who gave us the news glibly suggested that I have an abortion. When I told her no, she flew into a rage– began shouting at me and ranting about how it was her right to suggest this 'medical procedure'.
Our son is 17 now and a fine young man. Thinking back on that nurse who suggested I kill him, I still want to smack her.
Conservachick Thank you thank you thank you for saying all of that – its what I keep trying to tell people myself. Having gone through search and gotten into this issue there is an unbelievable amount going on that people are not aware of…and the BC issue is very much a conservative issue I think. THANK YOU for speaking up…
Agreed…about 8 years before my wife and I met she had an abortion, and it took a lot for her to even tell me about it, but other than that one time, she will absolutely not talk about it because she's so ashamed of herself.
It really shows just how heartless liberals are that they try to push something like this on people, full well knowing what it'll do to anybody with a conscience.
I thought the same thing as I was reading butterfly's story (and I want to give her a hug). Our church operates a Crisis Pregnancy Center. It is thrilling to hear the testimonies from new moms who talk about how the CPC saved two lives– their child's and their own.
Butterfly, I am sorry for your loss. If you can volunteer in a CPC, you may be a powerful witness to saving the lives of other's children. There is probably some young woman right now, who feels confused and afraid, who needs to hear your voice to know the truth about her choices before she decides.
Just throwing this out there for anyone who may be suffering from this sort of pain. I'm not familiar with them personally but I hear they do good work: http://www.rachelsvineyard.org/
I love that saying too! Perfect!
I went a few rounds with Sharon over this at the old blog, and I still don't understand the significance of DNA. In most cases the scenario seems to be that two irresponsible people had sex with no intention of commitment or family, they unintentionally produced life, and this somehow means everything in the world. Again, no disrespect intended, but I will never understand why this is worth agonizing over, unless you were ripped away from your mother against her will, in which case it truly is a tragedy. But most people who adopt their children out would have been unfit parents. My husband was raised by a horribly neglectful, abusive, totally unfit mother, and he is scarred for life. This was a better alternative than adoption? Maybe he should feel that transcendent DNA connection to the woman who beat and starved him, but he feels almost no connection to his birth mother, and has no desire to ever see her again. The woman he felt most connected to was my mother, of no blood relation, because she treated him like a son.
God granted you the gift of life. Your birth mother had the moral fortitude not to have you sucked into a sink or dumped in a trash can. Yet you spend your lives wondering about the DNA donors instead of enjoying everything else that God's gift provides you with. Again, I don't mean to be disrespectful, but this just seems like a tremendous waste of emotion and time.
I had to sign three different permission and release forms for my 13 year old daughter to get her ears pierced!
In short dear Stickwick, medical records, identity imprint, future generations. If I dont answer the questions for myself, then I should answer it for my children, my grandchildren, and so on. Im baffled by this idea that you think genetics has nothing to do with who we are. Do you not do geneaological searches for yourself????? Have you never looked at pictures of your ancestors and thought "thats where I get that nose from, that's my uncle so-and-so and he was a [carpenter, musician, lawyer] just like me…"
You dont think you could stand in the middle of your family and not see one damn thing about them that connects you to them. Why you think this should not be important to someone who is taken from one genetic line and stuck into another and expected to conform/adapt/mirror/mold oneself to that new line is not only baffling, but appalling. I love my adoptive family very much, they are kind people, but I look nothing like them and I have no genetic connection to them. I come from a line of writers…no one in my adoptive family writes. In fact, they disregard books as tools and not inspiration…
you anti-abortioners are interesting – you are applauding her for a making a choice – yet you would deny her the choice if you had your way…this woman apparently searched her soul and made an informed decision – good for her…but you would rather make that decision for her…very unamerican
My mother was FORCED by a man who considered his honor more worth the denial of my existence than the happiness of his daughter who wanted to keep me. My mother was convinced that severing a part of herself was going to restore her happiness. I assure you – she was not happy about the decision.
I repeat – its grief, not gratitude. This admonisment, along with others, just has the same ingredients of "shut up and be grateful" that I hear elsewhere. You are not adopted. You dont have the perspective we do. Me and a couple of others on here have tried to explain ourselves and its still the same 'be quiet and be grateful' – I KNOW WHO to be grateful to…and He NEVER would have severed those ties.
Should we invoke the caveat "by Hollywood standards"?
Spoken like a true genetically connected person. You have what adoptees want/need/deserve – and you expect us to just be grateful for scraps. We didnt just spring up out of the abyss. We have a connection to the past. We want the same kind of Story that others have. A big part of that is kept from us because so many states refuse to allow free access to birth certificates. Adoptees are the only American citizens whos BCs were changed to reflect the people with whom they have no ties with…and usually it was done without the decision making of the child. Adoptees are refused passports and even drivers licenses because their identity is brought into question. Adoptees are kicked out of families when they dont meet the fantasies of those who took them in. Im sorry your husband had such a bad mother, but thats a completely different issue from overwriting someones identity. Babies are not tabula rasa.
In re-reading what you wrote, I am astonished at how willing you are to denigrate the humanity of the natural mother…as if there were no pain involved. Im not surprised, but I am still astonished. "DNA donors"??? Is that how you think of mothers that dont fit into the correct societal class? Just a body that happened to squirt out a baby for someone else's satisfaction?
Truly truly astonished….
President Obama's one. He went onto the Illinois senate floor and spoke out in favor of letting babies that survived abortion attempts be put aside on a shelf and left to die. Only when he realized that nobody else in the room agreed with him did he stop taking a stand and decide to vote "present."
It sounded to me as though Dima was saying that this girl should have realized on her own, without any sob stories from the internet, that not having an abortion was the only smart thing to do. Just my opinion, though.
Read the thread again, you drive-by goof. Very few on here are not applauding her choice. Did you happen to take a wrong turn on your way to the Daily Kos?
Sounds like she knew what her decision would be from the start, just needed to "talk it through" to consciously accept it.
Good for her. I knew someone who used to be very pro-choice and when a friend of hers asked her to take her to Ye Olde Abortion Mille, she heartily agreed to accompany her friend. (Note, the guy, as per usual, wasn't around.) What she saw there changed her forever. She wasn't even the one having the abortion and she described visting the clinic as the absolute worst thing she's ever experienced. She didn't go into too many details besides a waiting room and recovery room full of crying women, but she said you wouldn't wish an abortion on your worst enemy. From that day forward, she was 100% pro-life.
There are some out there who shrug off their abortion(s) but I think more often than not there's a lot of remorse and regret. Once the baby's gone, the baby is gone forever. The feminists and the abortion industry try to sell abortion as a panacea, but as the bumper sticker says, "One dead, one wounded."
That baby will bring a lot of joy to Kourtney and maybe get her to grow up some. Now if only that boyfriend would step up and do what's right…
forgive us single folk for weighing in…
But, for the life of us, we cannot understand why anyone would want to terminate a viable, healthy child. After all, why do we exist? Just for simple self gratification?
As painful a choice adoption must be it is the only sane, rational and moral choice…
God does work in mysterious ways and, every now and then, will choose an interesting messenger.
Before it can be called a choice, there should be an honest presentation of both sides. If all you are told is it matters about as much as getting a mole removed, you don't have enough info to determine if it is a sin.
Remember, there was and still is "community morality." You do get judged on what you freely allow your neighbors to do. For there to be a true choice, there must be that honest presentation. If the other side will not allow that, then it is better there is no choice than to allow sin to occur from ignorance.
This is not new. Back in 19th century America, abortion was actually MORE widespread due to such "rationalization." Here is an excerpt from a WORLD article:
To save the lives of more unborn Americans we should see how our pro-life predecessors succeeded in the past—and by the past I don't mean only the past three decades but the past two centuries. It's conventional to think of the abortion horror as a product of the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, but research I've done at the Library of Congress shows that abortion on the eve of the Civil War was more frequent, in proportion to the U.S. population, than it is now.
You have not just read a misprint. Roughly 160,000 abortions occurred in 1860 in a population of 30 million. Probably about 1.2 million abortions (13 percent of them through RU-486) occurred last year in a population estimated at around 307 million. The horrific current number is obviously no cause for self-congratulation, but reputable forecasters at the time of Roe v. Wade were predicting a butcher's bill of more than 4 million abortions annually by now.
http://www.worldmag.com/articles/14857
Just as God blessed pro-lifers in the 19th century to overturn the pro-abortion status quo, the stories of women like Kardashian demonstrate that history is repeating itself for the better.
@dountoothers
Considering that the number of abortions performed is declining, your "lack of choice" argument will prove moot. Americans are now again more pro-life as demonstrated by a "Hollywood insider" like Kardashian keeping her baby.
The only way this pro-life trend will reverse is if Obamacare and its built-in abortion industry bailout passes in Congress.
I guess you're just as angry at your own mother that she was not "pro-choice".
Could it be… personal responsibility? I can understand, academically, feeling you don't have the option of taking care of a child yourself, leaving the other two. In those cases deciding to have the child is the noblest decision. But she knew she could raise a child, and if she was willing to bring it into the world then she might as well be in it for the long haul. She was responsible for the pregnancy, so she would take care of it one way or the other, rather than pass it on to someone else.
Also, if this was a "normal" person then I would wonder if she had a bad perception about adoption. However as a well-watched celebrity there is a good chance people might find out where the kid went and who adopted them, so I will grant her extra leeway in discounting adoption as a viable option.
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Have you considered volunteering to work at one of the "Crisis Pregnancy Centers" that do in fact provide this type of information to the women who come there?
Your experience would make you a very good peer counselor, and you could stop some young women from making the same mistake you did. Get involved. Don't wait for someone else to make a documentary.
Doing work like this would also go a long way toward completing your healing process.
Regards,
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On that last point- if I child is being abused, how does aborting the child fix the problem of her abusive situation? Just shut up, abort the baby, and send her home? They claim to be so compassionate, but they are truely heartless.
Ok, THIS is what I want to see on her 'reality TV' life show (that's still on, right?), because now, finally, there is a compelling, interesting, NEEDED story! It is a scary thought that women will still even consider to have their child torn limb from limb out of their wombs but will not even entertain the thought of giving it away to someone who WANTS it. *shudder*. I sincerely hope, wish, BEG Ms. K to please document what she's said up there, Put in out for all to see. Her words, her life, those horror stories she mentions need to be illustrated so other young women don't fall for the lies that the abortion industry is selling. Thank you Ms K for being so brave and informing yourself, now PLEASE keep doing so, scream it from the roof tops, maybe you can help save a couple of lives along the way.
And thanks for putting this story out there, everyone who recognises the need to spread the truth about this industry of death needs to keep this story going. I wish I had the means to make a documentary as mentioned above. My daughter is trying very hard to raise awareness via the written word and public appearances: http://www.gingiedmonds.com
I hope her story gets more publicity, that'd be fantastic. Good choice Kourtney!
I really hope the audience the Kardashians reach really internalize this message. Yes, I admit to watching the show, and their lives have always been characterized by various shades of selfishness. This is an incredibly unselfish decision, and I applaud her for being adult enough to make it.
right?! that's what i was thinking. god is good.
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