<![CDATA[Jezebel: Retry, Abort]]> http://cache.jezebel.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: Retry, Abort]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/retry, abort http://jezebel.com/tag/retry, abort <![CDATA[ "Because a man's instinct is to protect...]]> "Because a man's instinct is to protect and provide for his offspring, his very masculinity is challenged when his child, born or unborn, is killed. And because men tend to deny their emotions — their "pain is taboo in our culture," said one conference presenter — they avoid thinking about abortion. Their 'impacted grief,' exposed as anger, leads them down many nasty roads — inability to connect with others being a key one but also abuse of drugs or alcohol, sex addiction, impotence, abuse of pornography, depression. Finding God seems to be one thing that helps." — from the Nation's take on men who suffer from "Post-Abortion Syndrome," which author Sarah Blustain calls "the bastard child of post-traumatic stress." [The Nation] More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=347659&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Do You Care How Dudes Feel About Their Abortions?]]> What's a dude allowed to feel when his mate decides to abort their fetus? It's a question explored in a fascinating LA Times story today about the post-abortion baggage of the sperm-having set. We meet a secular sociologist named Arthur Shostak who has interviewed thousands of men in line at abortion clinics and finds them filled with conflicted emotions they rarely voice. We meet Mark Morrow, a Catholic counselor who got into the movement when he suddenly realized he was the "father of four dead babies." (When he reached out to an ex-girlfriend who'd aborted two of them, she sent him a letter saying, ""That long day we sat in that God-forsaken clinic, I hoped every moment that you would stand up and say, 'We can't do this'. . . but you didn't.") And then we meet a lawyer and activist named Chris Aubert, the father of five children and two college-age abortions, who has since converted to Catholicism and struggles every day with the burden of balancing his happy marriage and current life with the moral certainty that, if he could turn back time, he'd have to object to his girlfriend and figure out a way to "save the babies." More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=341832&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ever Sent A Text Message You Wished You Could Abort?]]> So there's been some big hoo-hah about the abortion rights crowd sending out mass text messages to supporters because our tender eyes are too impressionable not to go out and get an abortion every time we're reminded it's still legal. Which made us think: how many ill-advised text messages have you sent only to wake up pining for the text message equivalent to Plan B? Like for example, this is the actual text of an actual text message I sent early this morning. To an actual person!
"fear dumbass, you needn't fare seventeen, and who the fuck cares. like you"
What, were they spiking the beverages with SENILITY? Or did predictive text prevent me from sounding even more profound? Okay, so: because not every state is as progressive as Virginia, where people are actually getting fined for sending annoying texts, I hereby deem the space "after the jump" your graveyard for your best specimens of drunk text. With a very special set from a certain ladyfriend of ours on Capitol Hill. More »
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