Virginia Ironside on BBC: Abortion is kindess as most children are “unfit”
Virginia Ironside is a British journalist who writes the "Dilemmas" column for The Independent and a monthly column for The Oldie. Her book Chelsea Bird was published at the age of twenty, she wrote a rock column in the 1960s for the Daily Mail. (Wikipedia)
Virginia Ironside: If I were the mother of a suffering child I mean a deeply suffering child I would be the first to want to put a pillow over its face If it was a child I really loved, who was in agony, I think any good mother would.
When I heard about this interview, I expected a screaming match, a miscue or a comment which would be followed by a retraction and an apology.
In fact, the others on the panel give Ms. Ironside an “out” and she refuses. “Abortion is the act of a loving mother” - I was shocked.
“If a baby’s going to be severely disabled or totally unwanted, surely an abortion is the act of a loving mother. Life is only a gift if the person living it feels cherished, loved and wanted and sadly, the world is full of unwanted children. To go ahead and have a baby, knowing that you can’t give it some kind of stable upbringing seems to me to be cruel.
“There is an argument that parents will love a severely disabled child and that a fatherless child will get all the love it needs from its mother, and some argue that the parents of a disadvantaged child will become better people. We all love the feeling of doing good, but to create a child who may well be going to suffer all its life is very, very unfair and no good parent, and no good mother, would want to impose that suffering on a child.”
The arrogance and condescending attitude isn’t really new, but is no less shocking and difficult to digest. Virginia Ironside almost drifts into citing Hitler with her visions of absolutes and having all of the answers.
There is a vast difference between unwanted babies and those with disabilities. Based on her statements, Sarah Palin is not only a bad mother, but a cruel parent who knowingly brought a Down Syndrome child into this world.
I wish I could have asked her to define what disabilities warrant abortion. For example, my brother was born with spinal bifida, living a normal life today, but should he have been aborted from my mother’s womb?
What about my mother who lives with a heart murmur? Two of my closest friends have two children, born pre-mature, less than 3 pounds, requiring weeks and months of medical care, attention and possible, lifetime monitoring – should they have been permitted to join Ms. Ironside on this planet?
She believes most adopted kids “would rather be dead anyway” – to join the other children she would deem “unfit.”
I didn’t post this to anger you against Virginia Ironside, the BBC or those that share her beliefs. I would never condone bombing abortion clinics or murdering their doctors.
No.
We need to pray for these folks. Ironside obviously does not believe in God, but desires to be one. She’s the voice of a world lacking compassion and love. There are 42 million abortions (a grossly underestimated figure) worldwide, so imagine the horror if Virginia Ironside were making the decisions.
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