{"id":50077,"date":"2020-10-30T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/?p=50077"},"modified":"2020-10-23T11:17:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T15:17:25","slug":"the-vision-magdalene-and-the-impossible-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2020\/10\/the-vision-magdalene-and-the-impossible-abortion.html","title":{"rendered":"The Vision: Magdalene and the Impossible Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

The Vision, pp. 148-150<\/strong><\/p>\n

So. Magdalene was telling her coworkers about how she ended up on the streets, remember? Last week, she recounted being homeschooled in a dysfunctional family. This week, she gives an answer to\u00a0another\u00a0<\/em>question.<\/p>\n

The Impossible Government-Funded Abortion<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bobbie Jo asks Magdalene what she did with the baby.<\/p>\n

Magdalene was pregnant when she left home, remember? One of her brother\u2019s friends got her pregnant, and her dad was angry because the guy who got her pregnant was Black<\/em>. So she left home. What did she do with the baby?<\/p>\n

Magdalene\u2019s head dropped. Her white hair draped over her face. Her voice sounded dead. \u201cI aborted the baby. Had it taken care of at the clinic. Lots of people do. The government pays for it.\u201d She shrugged. \u201cOne less kid on welfare.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No. What? No!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m really really<\/em> tired of conservatives not knowing how any of this actually works. Medicaid covers abortions in case of rape. Magdalene appears to say that, in her view, she was not raped. Besides, to have Medicaid cover your abortion, even if you can prove you were raped, you have to be on Medicaid.\u00a0<\/em>Magdalene is a minor. If she has health insurance, it\u2019s through her parents.<\/p>\n

In theory, Magdalene\u00a0might\u00a0<\/em>be on the CHIP program, a government program that insures low income children and is a form of Medicaid. But she probably isn\u2019t. For one thing, her family would only qualify if they are low income and do not have insurance through an employer. (We haven\u2019t been given information on her family\u2019s income one way or another.) For another thing, Magdalene\u2019s parents probably wouldn\u2019t sign up for it out of principal. My guess is that if they\u2019re not insured through Magdalene\u2019s father\u2019s job, they are either uninsured, or they\u2019ve bought into one of those Christian healthcare cost sharing programs.<\/p>\n

But even if the kids\u00a0were<\/em> on CHIP, I sincerely doubt that Magdalene could access it without her parent\u2019s involvement. And remember, she\u2019d still have to prove she was raped. There\u2019s no way the government paid for her abortion.<\/p>\n

In situations like Magdalene\u2019s, the most likely scenario would be that she would ask all of her friends to pitch in, and scrape together what she could. An abortion would probably run her about $500.<\/p>\n

Oh but\u00a0also<\/em>\u2014she\u2019s a minor! To get an abortion, she\u2019d have to either have her parents\u2019 approval, or a judge\u2019s approval. It does not sound like she had either. She was a runaway at that time, and I\u2019m pretty sure a judge would ask about her living situation. Magdalene could not have gotten a legal abortion,\u00a0much less\u00a0<\/em>one funded by the government. The girls she lives with (I think we\u2019re to assume they\u2019re also sex workers?) might have pointed her to pills you can buy online, or some sort of other back alley solution. But just walk into a clinic and get an abortion and the government foots the bill?\u00a0No.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The Impossible Late Term Abortion<\/strong><\/p>\n

At this point, Magdalene starts to sob:<\/p>\n

\u201cI was really scared. I was over seven months along before I went back to Planned Parenthood.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No. What? No!<\/p>\n

(Side note: The inclusion of the phrase \u201cback to\u201d is strange\u2014she never went to Planned Parenthood a first time, so I can only assume this is the product of bad editing. So no, you didn\u2019t miss anything.)<\/p>\n

But\u00a0over seven months\u00a0along??<\/i> Absolutely no way did this happen like this! This would have put her at at least<\/em> 28 weeks.<\/p>\n

I googled Planned Parenthood clinics in North Carolina that perform abortions. Since she was last in Winston-Salem, when Derek picked her up, \u00a0checked that one first: \u201cIn-clinic abortion is offered up to 13 weeks and 6 days after the start of your last menstrual period.\u201d So clearly, she couldn\u2019t have gotten her 28 week abortion\u00a0there.\u00a0<\/em>I just checked all of the other Planned Parenthood clinics in NC that offer abortions, and the only\u00a0one that offers abortions later than 13 weeks and 6 days is\u00a0Chapel Hill, which performs abortions up to 19 weeks and 6 days. That\u2019s still<\/em> not 28 weeks.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s another problem: even if there were\u00a0<\/em>a Planned Parenthood location in North Carolina that performed abortions at 28 weeks\u2014and there are some locations that do\u2014abortions this late are only performed\u00a0for medical reasons.\u00a0<\/em>Magdalene simply could not<\/em> have gotten this abortion. It does not work like that.<\/em> If she\u2019d said she got her abortion at 10 weeks, that she\u2019d scraped together the money and her friend\u2019s parent had pretended to be her parent, that would have at least made some<\/em> sense. (Although even here, I highly<\/em> doubt you can get away with having an imposter parent.)<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s be clear about what this all means: it means Debi\u00a0thinks\u00a0<\/em>a 16-year-old who is 28 weeks pregnant can walk into a Planned Parenthood alone and get a government-funded abortion, just like that. And from the way she writes, she doesn\u2019t seem to think this is at all rare or out of the ordinary, either. This is what many conservatives think abortion looks like.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Ugh.<\/p>\n

The Missing Motivations<\/strong><\/p>\n

As we return to Magdalene, I want you to focus on something other than the logistics: does Magdalene ever address what she<\/em> wanted? Does she ever say why<\/em> she had an abortion, or what she felt like her options looked like?<\/p>\n

With that, back to Magdalene:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I arrived, there was a group of pro-life people in the parking lot. They told me how the doctor would give me medicine to bring on labor, then stick a giant needle in the baby\u2019s head as she was coming down to be born. Then, he would suck her brains out and dump her in a garbage pail.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people that talked with me begged me not to do it. They told me they would give me a nice place to live and pay for my baby to be born and help me find a good home for her, but I went in anyway.\u201d Magdalene\u2019s voice sounded ragged. \u201cI was done with hoping and depending on people, especially religious people.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Um. What.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been outside of abortion clinics. Those protesters? All they do is yell. They don\u2019t take the time to explain, in graphic detail, exactly what abortion involves, because all they have the chance to do as yell at women as they walk by. As a result, they tend to yell shorter things. And the women who go to clinics for abortions don\u2019t walk up to the protesters and hold conversations with\u00a0them.\u00a0<\/i>In fact, most clinics have escorts to walk women past the protestors, to ensure that they aren\u2019t hassled.<\/p>\n

Oh and by the way? Magdalene\u2019s response\u2014\u201cI was done with hoping and depending on people, especially religious people\u201d\u2014is actually a good argument for better government programs. Not intrusive ones that dehumanize people, of course. But imagine living in a society that viewed raising children as important and valuable, and that communicated that with words and actions\u2014through government-funded daycare, through aid to families with dependent children, through universal healthcare coverage, through treating girls like Magdalene as people<\/em>. Imagine a world where these things\u00a0weren\u2019t<\/em> seen as handouts.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Magdalene rejected the anti-abortion protestors\u2019 offer to put her up until her baby was born (and then maybe traffic it). To read the story of someone who accepted<\/em> this offer (in a manner of speaking), see this<\/a> story.<\/p>\n

Moving on:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I got in there, they told me to put on a gown and lay back on a table. They ran an ultrasound. The nurses forgot to turn the screen away and I saw that my baby was a girl.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s actually really hard to make out what\u2019s on an ultrasound. Magdalene may have\u00a0thought\u00a0<\/em>she saw that her baby was a girl, but without an ultrasound tech interpreting the image for her, she was almost certainly just guessing.<\/p>\n

There was silence for a few minutes until in a soft whisper they heard Magdalene say, \u201cI actually heard her cry \u2026 for a moment \u2026 at least, I think I heard her \u2026 I named her Starlite.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No. Nope, this would not happen. For the baby to have cried, it would have had to take a breath. Once a baby takes a breath, it is legally a person. Later term abortions are performed in a number of ways, but they are specifically performed in ways that ensure that there will not be a live birth. In case of a live birth, doctors are required by law to provide care.<\/p>\n

But again, most abortions are performed in the first trimester.<\/em>\u00a0They are performed early on in pregnancy. In fact, a full two-thirds of abortions are performed by the 8th week of pregnancy\u2014and remember, for pregnancy, weeks start counting with the first day of last menstrual period, which is two weeks\u00a0before\u00a0<\/em>an egg is released. In other words, most abortions occur when pregnancy has barely begun. Abortions that occur at (or even near) the point when survival is possible are\u00a0tragic,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0rare.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

This story might make sense if Magdalene had realized she was too far along for a legal abortion and panicked, and then her friends took her to an illicit facility like the one run by Kermit Gosnell<\/a>. At Gosnell\u2019s clinic, this sort of thing did<\/em> happen, and Gosnell probably would have overlooked Magdalene\u2019s age, too. Gosnell is now in jail. For life. Partly because facilities like his don\u2019t just break the law, they are also unsanitary and inhumane, and women died on his operating table (as did babies born alive).<\/p>\n

But this<\/em> story? This story does not make sense.<\/p>\n

Magdalene never actually says how she felt about any of this. She doesn\u2019t say\u00a0why\u00a0<\/em>she had an abortion (though we can guess), or whether she wishes she\u2019d done something else instead (though it sounds like maybe she does wish that). It\u2019s hard to parse apart what, in Magdalene\u2019s telling, is the result of guilt due to her upbringing, and what is genuine regret that comes from her<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And you no what? No one\u2014not Bobbie Jo, not Julie, not Cheyenne\u2014ask her about how she feels about any of this. Maybe that\u2019s a good thing, because it\u2019s Debi telling this story, and because women like Bobbie Jo, Julie, and Cheyenne are not in a place to even try<\/em> to understand. What would benefit Magdalene is seeing an actual therapist\u2014and not a \u201cbiblical\u201d therapist. A therapist would help Magdalene see that, whatever her feelings now, what happened was not her fault. A therapist would affirm her feelings, but also help her talk through them, and come to terms with them. What Magdalene needs is acceptance<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And not a bullshit conditional acceptance that treats her like a project and focuses on her eternal soul.<\/p>\n

Sheer Panic<\/strong><\/p>\n

How do Magdalene\u2019s coworkers respond to her story?<\/p>\n

After a long pause Julie spoke softly, \u201cMagdalene, you need to contact your daddy. You know he\u2019s worried about you. Wouldn\u2019t you like to call and tell him you\u2019re alive and that the boogie man didn\u2019t get you?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At this, Magdalene absolutely freaks out. She knocks over a lamp, and the lights go out.<\/p>\n

Magdalene had hit her breaking point. The memories surfaced like bile. Dark purple circles set deeply into the tiny, ghastly white face, surrounding her pale blue eyes. Tears had made paths, leaving two vivid red streaks down each cheek.<\/p>\n

Magdalene\u2019s face twisted into a snare in response to Julie\u2019s advice. \u201cYou are such a stupid freak to believe such a lie. Do you think i will not pay? Nobody gets away \u2026 nobody. You have no idea just how bad the boogie man did get me!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ugh. This poor child. She\u2019s right<\/em>. While she\u2019s shared little of what happened to her out there, I sincerely doubt that Derek kidnapping her, burning her, and then abandoning her in the woods was the worst thing she experienced.<\/p>\n

Also, WTF, Julie? Some parents are genuinely\u00a0bad parents.\u00a0<\/em>Kids run away from home for a reason! Also, her dad was the one freaking out over her being pregnant with a mixed-race baby, and she just shared that she found her abortion traumatic and is conflicted about it\u2014what exactly would make Julie feel this was the right time to tell her to call her dad?<\/p>\n

Magdalene\u2019s not done freaking out.<\/p>\n

Magdalene jumped to her feet and rushed to the door.<\/p>\n

Agile as a cat, Cheyenne jumped over the low couch, loped three long steps, and reached the door just in time to shut it before Magdalene could open it further. Catching Magdalene by both arms, Cheyenne swung her around and wrapped her arms tightly around the small girl, holding her still. She looked down at the top of the pale head.<\/p>\n

\u201cBe still, girl.\u201d Cheyenne\u2019s voice was full of conviction, authority, and compassion. \u201cYou are through running. It\u2019s time to understand once and for all that Jesus didn\u2019t come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What sort of cult initiation is\u00a0this?\u00a0<\/em>Seriously. This is\u00a0weird.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Also, can I just say how inappropriate it is for an employer to trap an employee in their place of work, physically overpower them, and start preaching at them? Like, don\u2019t do that! Just don\u2019t!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s almost like it\u2019s really inappropriate for them to be employing an unrelated runaway minor (possibly for no pay) who is also living with them, thus enabling them to control her whole life.<\/p>\n

The Born-Again Baby and the Millennium<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cheyenne goes on:<\/p>\n

\u201cYou definitely qualify for Jesus. Where sin abounds, grace much more abounds. It\u2019s time to get started on some of that grace. Besides\u2026\u201d Cheyenne placed her hand under Magdalene\u2019s chin and lifted her tear-streaked face. \u201cI believe the Bible teaches that your baby will live again in the Millennium and have her chance to grow up and come to love the Savior. You can\u2019t leave until you know all about what the Bible has to say about that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What. Wait, what.<\/p>\n

Whaaaaat.<\/p>\n

This must be a weird Pearl thing. I\u2019ve never heard this before. Everyone I knew growing up believed that those who died before the age of accountability, including both babies and fetuses, went straight to heaven. Well, except\u00a0one\u00a0<\/em>guy I knew. My apologetics teacher, who was a professor at a seminary, and the father of one of my friends. He told me he doesn\u2019t think the Bible is clear on what happens to babies that die, and that while that\u2019s not what grieving parents want to hear, he also tells them that God is good and sovereign and just, and that we need to just trust him.<\/p>\n

Oh hey. It\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>a weird Pearl thing. Michael writes this to a woman who writes to him upset with God that she miscarried:<\/p>\n

Your anger is based on the assumption that you know better than God what is best. Your child is now in the presence of God beholding the face of the Father (Matthew 18:10). \u2026 Your child will appear again in the Millennium as a child to be raised by someone\u2014possibly you\u2014to maturity, and so make a choice concerning the Savior.<\/strong> In reference to the Millennium the Bible says, \u201cAnd the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof\u2019\u2019 (Zechariah 8:5). One of those playing children is your little one. Jesus held your child before your did. Are you angry at him for drawing this little one to himself? \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is\u00a0definitely\u00a0<\/em>not what I was taught, and that is\u00a0fascinating.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Evangelicalism has a lot in common with internet conspiracy theories: people come up with their own ideas on what texts various sources mean and how different verses interact. Nowhere is this more apparent than in end times theology, where evangelicals draw up intricate diagrams and charts and argue for completely different and distinct positions.<\/p>\n

I had thought that this image was a pretty clear distillation:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

But it now strikes me that this image doesn\u2019t even try to get into what the Millennium actually is<\/em>. I actually didn\u2019t learn all that much about the Millennium, myself. We were pre-tribulation premillennialists, which I think<\/em> is what the Pearls are. But we pretty much skipped over the Millennium and went straight to the last judgement. Now that I think about it \u2026 the entire idea of the Millennium coming after\u00a0<\/em>the tribulation, but\u00a0before <\/em>the last judgement, doesn\u2019t make a lot of sense.<\/p>\n

So \u2026 the Pearls believe that fetuses that experience miscarriage or abortion will pop back into existence in the Millennium, a thousand-year period of rule by Jesus in person, and grow up then. During this period, they will have an opportunity to accept Jesus, or else reject him and go to heaven after death. Wait, do people die<\/em> in the Millennium?<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t get<\/em> the Millennium.<\/p>\n

Anyway, according to Debi, Cheyenne\u2019s telling Magdalene that her baby will have the chance to grow up during the Millennium makes Magdalene feel better, and starts her process of healing.<\/p>\n

A tiny sparks of hope had been kindled in Magdalene young soul.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This poor kid.<\/p>\n

Wait. If aborted fetuses get to grow up during the Millennium, a period when the earth is ruled by Jesus in-person, wouldn\u2019t it make more sense to just abort all pregnancies? It seems like it would be better for a child to grow up during the Millennium\u2014which is supposed to be a time of peace and harmony\u2014than to grow up on the broken, sinful earth we have now.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s a larger question.<\/p>\n

The Missing Motivations,\u00a0<\/strong>Redux\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Magdalene is the most interesting character in this book, but on some level, she is also the most frustrating. We know Cheyenne\u2019s motivations. We know Hope\u2019s motivations. We even know Asher\u2019s motivations (though not his background). What we don\u2019t know are\u00a0Magdalene\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>motivations. What makes her tick? What are her goals? Why did she decide to stay with Cheyenne\u2019s family?\u00a0Is she trying to put her life back together? Why is she so scared of Cheyenne and Bobbie Jo\u2019s threats to take her to the cops?<\/p>\n

Does she wish she hadn\u2019t had an abortion? Does she regret running away from home? Is she trying to put together a plan for a better life? And there\u2019s something else odd\u2014does she wonder about how her siblings are? She had a lot of them, most of them younger. Does she feel responsible for them? The complete absence of any inner life for Magdalene is frustrating.\u00a0<\/i>Why is she even here, with The Last Publishers? Omar picked her up and took her to their Bible study, but that didn\u2019t mean she had to stay.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

There are\u00a0so many\u00a0<\/em>unanswered questions.<\/p>\n

Adding conflicted feelings about an abortion into the mix is an interesting choice. In the hands of a better writer, it might pull a number of different things together\u2014it might help us understand\u00a0<\/em>Magdalene. In Debi\u2019s hands, it simply adds one more major thing to her story\u2014sex work! kidnapping! abortion!\u2014without addressing how these things might fit together<\/em>, which would help us actually understand Magdalene, her demons, her dreams, and what makes her tick.<\/p>\n

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