This was a disturbing article, in the New York Times Magazine, about the growing trend to abort twins down to a singleton because, as was the case with one of the women, she wanted a baby, but she didn't want to be saddled with "two screaming infants." "I want only one!"
Of course, they don't call them abortions, they call them "reductions." Either way, the result is the same.
As horrifying as abortion always is to me, almost as horrific in these cases was the women's absolute disdain for the lives they had helped create within themselves. "It was horrible... I felt like the pregancy was a monster, and I just wanted it out..."
Discouraging too was the selfishness, callousness, and cynicism contained in their stories, as they attempted to justify their choice. Some women, the article stated, even after spending years and thousands of dollars to get pregnant, some through donor eggs, said they "lacked the resources to deal with the chaos, stereophonic screaming and exhaustion of raising twins." I can't be expected to handle more than one of these little noisy creatures!
Striking, too, was the cowardly refusal of these people to look at their ultrasounds to see what they were actually choosing. And their passing the decision on to the abortionists as to which babies to reduce. "Consider the choice of which fetus to eliminate: If both appear healthy (which is typical of twins), doctors aim for whichever one is easer to reach. If both are equally accessible, the decision of who lives and who dies is random." In many cases, the woman tells the doctor to pick. As if they hadn't really chosen this after all, so that makes it better.
More evidence of their inability to deal with reality and responsibility, which led them to their decisions in the first place.
That, and the absence of the belief in God's mercy and grace.
Just when I think I can't be horrified further by abortion, I am.
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