It’s always so touching when a TV news personality opens up on the air about how the decision to end the life of his unborn child “saved” him. No really -- that actually happened.
Last Friday, MSNBC host Toure celebrated the 40th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade by sharing the story of when he and an old girlfriend decided 15 years ago to abort their baby, because it was, like, totally inconvenient.
During The Cycle, Toure told the audience, “In some ways that choice saved my life.” You see, it turns out that the girlfriend didn’t end up being the one, and giving birth to a live, healthy child would’ve just made “a mess of three lives.”
But wait! There’s more. Toure then went on to thank God and country for the right to abortion:
I thank God and country that when I fell into a bad situation, abortion was there to save me and keep me on a path toward building a strong family I have now. And I pray that safety net stays in place.
It’s unclear as to how one just “falls” into pregnancy (Did his penis trip and fall into her lady parts?), but we can gloss over that for the time being to talk about the ridiculousness of this particular situation.
Here we have a guy in a committed relationship with a woman he calls his girlfriend, and he knocks her up. Now, instead of manning up and taking responsibility for the child that he helped create, he applauds mom’s decision to end the pregnancy, and then 15 years later claims that the death of that baby ‘saved’ him?
I bet that baby would have liked to be saved too, had he or she been consulted on the matter of their imminent death. Maybe that baby would be alive today, having been adopted by parents that waited years to meet their child. Or maybe Toure and his girlfriend raised him. The only thing that matters here is that you’ll be hard-pressed to come across a person that believes their parents should have aborted them for convenience’s sake.
Like it or not, that’s a baby in there. A real, live baby with its own genetic code and DNA and everything. A child created by God. To turn around and thank God for the legal right to snuff out that life because pregnancy is icky is ludicrous.
Abortion may ‘save’ someone from parenthood, but it does so at the cost of another person’s life.
Is it really worth it?
Image via Katelyn Kenderdine/Flickr
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@Becky, the rate of complication with abortion is extremely low, you are downright lying if you seriously want to claim you've seen "bloody women" being carried away to the hospital. If you are against abortion, who cares, don't have one. I've had an abortion and I do not regret it. It's been years now and it was the best decision I could make and now I have a wonderful family. People like you would try and ruin the lives of millions of women becuase of your religious nonsense. My body, my choice.
I can't even, this makes me so sick, including the comments from a certain two above. It's a BABY! When exactly does it become a baby and not a fetus to you? Is it the mother's "genetic material" that she can chose to dispose of right up until the time when it's 40 weeks and ready to deliver? Can she change her mind during delivery and chose to have the doctor suck it's brains out before delivering the head? Or is it better to do it while it's still small, and have it ripped apart limb by tiny limb and sucked out? Or disolved by acids or salt? Which way is better? Hmm? We mourn a miscarriage, but celebrate a woman's "choice" to kill her own child for whatever reason, because it's "her decision". As for HIS comments, ugh. I really want to throw up.
The question I always want to ask is, "What did you think would possibly happen by spreading your legs for some guy?" I don't understand how there are so many people out there these days that don't want to or refuse to take responsibility for their actions! It boggles the mind. I understand there are times when you still get pregnant even while using protection of some sort; but that's not the case with a lot of women who go into planned parenthood to get their 'problem' taken care of. If they actually let those women hear the heartbeats or see the baby inside them, even as early as 7 weeks, they would really know that it is a 'life'....a real baby. No matter if they can support themselves or not, it's a life plain and simple. To many, it's a lot easier to deny the truth and not accept and live your life than to do otherwise. As the saying goes, 'ignorance is bliss'. When we know and accept the truth, it's hard sometimes to deal with; but it brings more knowledge and understanding to a lot more in the world we live in.
well if the mom dies while pregnany then the baby dies has a high chance at dying.... Thats one of the couple reason I think abortion is okay. If the pregnacny will kill mom and/or baby.