"The journalist Helena Smith wrote the story of a woman named
Mirveta, who gave birth to a child conceived in rape in Kosovo. Mirveta
was twenty years old, and illiterate; her husband had abandoned her
because of the pregnancy. “He was a healthy little boy and Mirveta had
produced him,” Smith writes. “But birth, the fifth in her short
lifetime, had not brought joy, only dread. As he was pulled from her
loins, as the nurses at Kosovo’s British-administered university
hospital handed her the baby, as the young Albanian mother took the
child, she prepared to do the deed. She cradled him to her chest, she
looked into her boy’s eyes, she stroked his face, and she snapped his
neck. They say it was a fairly clean business. Mirveta had used her bare
hands. It is said that, in tears, she handed her baby back to the
nurses, holding his snapped, limp neck. In Pristina, in her psychiatric
detention cell, she has been weeping ever since.” The aid worker taking
care of Mirveta said, 'Who knows? She may have looked into the baby’s
face and seen the eyes of the Serb who raped her. She is a victim, too.
Psychologically raped a second time.'” From
http://www.newyorker.com/news/....
Elise
Cooper asserts that giving the neck-snapping chore to an abortionist is
a tidy way to resolve the matter for all concerned. How wonderful that
a living child is not around to constantly remind mother, family and
society of the horror that conceived the life in the first place.
Aren't we all just dripping with monumental levels of denial and
delusion? This solution snuffs out an innocent life for the convenience
of everyone BUT the mother. The mother now carries 2 horrors, the
first being a victim of force, and the second being forced to become a
victimizer for the sake of a society that really doesn't want to carry
on with the truth. Yet the mother carries the burden of both truths in
crippling isolation. And we carry on believing we have a noble society.
How noble it is to allow this "except in the case of rape and incest"
to grease the slippery slope into pridefully legalizing reproductive
"rights." How noble it is to quietly suppress the truth about how we
allow millions of innocent lives to be snuffed out every year.
