{"id":8535,"date":"2003-01-19T20:55:22","date_gmt":"2003-01-20T01:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/01\/19\/mothers-daughters-and-decades-of-abortion\/"},"modified":"2003-01-19T20:55:22","modified_gmt":"2003-01-20T01:55:22","slug":"mothers-daughters-and-decades-of-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/01\/mothers-daughters-and-decades-of-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Mothers, daughters and decades of abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3333ff>An adopted teenager, the suddenly radiant offspring of an<br \/>\nimpoverished orphan, has begun learning about abortion. Its very existence comes<br \/>\nas a shock. It is a heart-wrenching conversation for mother and daughter.<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>In the 30 years since the landmark Roe v. Wade decision,<br \/>\nthe mother&#8217;s thoughts have ebbed and flowed. It doesn&#8217;t seem that long ago, her<br \/>\nchildhood 40 years past, when birth control methods were few, unreliable and<br \/>\nhard to get, and women were butchered and killed at the hands of abortionists<br \/>\nwith no medical training. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>&#8230;The daughter, this precious fruit of an unintended<br \/>\npregnancy, asks, what will I do if I get pregnant? <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>The mother said whatever they would decide, she would<br \/>\nhelp her and love her, and her life would go on. &#8220;But I would hope,&#8221; said the<br \/>\nmother, &#8220;that you would do what your birth mother did. That would be a beautiful<br \/>\nthing.&#8221;<\/font> [<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/Columnists.nsf\/Betty+Cuniberti\/1FEB047C8ACEC4E086256CB20022370E?OpenDocument&amp;Headline=Mothers,+daughters+and+decades+of+abortion+\">Full<br \/>\nStory]<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An adopted teenager, the suddenly radiant offspring of an impoverished orphan, has begun learning about abortion. Its very existence comes as a shock. It is a heart-wrenching conversation for mother&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pro-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}