{"id":50262,"date":"2014-05-06T21:00:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T21:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/?p=50262"},"modified":"2015-03-13T00:26:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T00:26:11","slug":"belying-all-her-good-abortion-words-her-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/2014\/05\/06\/belying-all-her-good-abortion-words-her-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Belying Emily Letts’ “good abortion” Words: Her Face UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Kathy Schiffer calls a video of Emily Letts<\/a> getting an abortion \u201cweird\u201d<\/a><\/strong>, and if all you take into account is this young woman\u2019s words, they are weird; they make almost no sense.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that sounds weird, but to me, this was as birth-like as it could be. It will always be a special memory for me. I still have my sonogram, and if my apartment were to catch fire, it would be the first thing I\u2019d grab.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you let yourself become distracted<\/strong> by what is coming from her mouth, you miss all that is revealed in her face, which tells the whole, and very different story. A month after the abortion \u2014 with the dramatic change in hairstyle that so many women effect when emotions are high and they need to feel in control of something \u2014 watch Emily, then. The light is gone from her eyes. The seeming disconnect between pc-fed head and instinctive heart is laid out in breathtaking and stark incongruity, even down to the shadows, the blue note, the lack of energy. Devastating. Cognizant of it or not, she is a mother in grief.<\/p>\n

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Kathy notes that this video<\/strong> was the first place winner \u201cin the Abortion Care Network\u2019s macabre \u2018Stigma Busting Video Competition'\u201d. Frankly, if I were a young woman watching this and pondering abortion, one glance at those haunted eyes, that beautiful, woebegone countenance and benumbed, vacant tone, and I would be running<\/em> to my nearest Birthright<\/a>, or to the Good Counsel<\/a> network, or to the Sisters of Life<\/a>, whose founder, the mighty John Cardinal O\u2019 Connor of the Archdiocese of New York, once pledged to help any needy pregnant woman<\/a> seeking assistance instead of abortion, and whose successor, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, has maintained that position<\/a>. <\/p>\n

My heart breaks for this young woman and her baby<\/strong> who are so clearly victims of a pervasive rhetoric full of untruths and the banality of real evil. She needs our prayers and our whole-hearted spiritual assistance. Evidenced before us is a mind seduced and under the power of nefarious propaganda that has told her to serve her own desires unto death \u2014 one that has encouraged her to soul-shredding idolatry while its promulgators serve only death and political campaign coffers. It is a mind owned by insipid platitudes, now at war with a heart that says, \u201cbone of my bone, flesh of my flesh, my baby, my heart, myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

What this young woman now knows \u2014 what resonates so clearly in her assertion that if her house were afire, she would grab the sonogram of her extinguished baby, and run \u2014 is that when she consented to kill her baby, she killed a very real piece of herself<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Even after a woman delivers a baby,<\/strong> or miscarries, or aborts, there remains within her, for the rest of her life, microscopic bits of her child<\/a> \u2014 of each child she has ever conceived. Look up microchimerism<\/a> and you will understand there is no such thing as \u201cgetting rid\u201d of one\u2019s baby, only of stopping it\u2019s life and disposing of it, while carrying it within one\u2019s very blood and sinew, forever.<\/p>\n

A body is made of living tissue and living tissue has memory. Pretty it up on video however you like, the insertion of a vacuum into a woman\u2019s body and the perpetration a violent, limb-shredding execution within the deep recesses of her womb cannot help but reverberate like dark energy, throughout the woman\u2019s body, mind and soul. You want to grab a sonogram of the baby you killed because the living part of that baby, still residing within you, is calling out for more of you, all of you.<\/p>\n

What a horrific, nightmarish way to have to live<\/strong>, and she is so young; actuarial tables suggest she will live for a very long time. No wonder she looks so very haunted. <\/p>\n

Seriously, let us pray for Emily Letts. Whatever her motives<\/a>, how can we feel anything but compassion for her, seeing what we have seen?<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OxPUKV-WlKw<\/a>\n

John Joseph Cardinal O\u2019 Connor, Pray for Emily and for us.
\nServant of God Dorothy Day, Pray for us Emily and for us.
\nVenerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen, Pray for Emily and for us.
\nSaint Gianna Molla, Pray for Emily and for us.
\nPope Saint John Paul, Pray for Emily and for us.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:
\nQuick question: <\/strong> how far along before ultrasounds can see babies? Letts said she was only weeks along. I thought you had to be 5 weeks at least?<\/p>\n

Instalanche<\/a> via guesthost Ed Driscoll<\/a>, thanks, Ed!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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