(There's a link to the article below) published August 18th 2016 - 'Most Discussed' item that day
There are a few distasteful aspects to this impromptu interview that Laura Kennedy had with the stranger at the next table in the beautiful hotel in rural Ireland. Firstly, this woman may not have been willing to share exactly why she was against abortion, and she is entitled to her privacy, after all, she wasn’t out campaigning, was she? Ms. Kennedy didn’t have the right to try to pry her deepest convictions from her. Second, Ms. Kennedy’s account reveals the intellectual superiority she feels to the lamb-eating mother of four who talks proudly of her son’s sporting successes. Kennedy is the educated female and the other person is the ignorant countrywoman, the kind of person that she thinks is keeping Ireland back. And she wanted to catch her out. When she reads Ms. Kennedy’s article, how is she going to feel? Put down and sad, perhaps. But then, she hardly reads the Irish Times, does she, so Ms. Kennedy needn’t feel guilty.
There are a few distasteful aspects to this impromptu interview that Laura Kennedy had with the stranger at the next table in the beautiful hotel in rural Ireland. Firstly, this woman may not have been willing to share exactly why she was against abortion, and she is entitled to her privacy, after all, she wasn’t out campaigning, was she? Ms. Kennedy didn’t have the right to try to pry her deepest convictions from her. Second, Ms. Kennedy’s account reveals the intellectual superiority she feels to the lamb-eating mother of four who talks proudly of her son’s sporting successes. Kennedy is the educated female and the other person is the ignorant countrywoman, the kind of person that she thinks is keeping Ireland back. And she wanted to catch her out. When she reads Ms. Kennedy’s article, how is she going to feel? Put down and sad, perhaps. But then, she hardly reads the Irish Times, does she, so Ms. Kennedy needn’t feel guilty.
Perhaps I can explain “Eileen’s” reluctance to share her
views. For decades now people who are against abortion have been ridiculed. There
is a hesitation to speak what we know to be factual, anything from Dr. Kermit
Gosnell’s atrocities to Live-borns, to the link between surgical abortion and
subsequent premature birth, to the science of life beginning at conception, etc
etc. This nice woman probably thought, ‘This woman is going to mock me.’ Ms. Kennedy could see her discomfort, after
all. And by the way, the middle aged
countrywoman was correct. The newly fertilized egg – the Zygote - is alive. It
sees more changes in an hour than you or I do in a year. If that’s not a live
being, therefore a life - I don’t know what is.
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