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Abortion: Addiction Or Affliction?
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 07:44PM 
Lissy's TearsYou've heard of addictions to drugs, tobacco, food, shopping ... even love. But an addiction to abortion?
That's the condition to which Irene Vilar lays claim in her new book, Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict published this week by Other Press.
Ms. Vilar pitched her controversial manuscript to 52 publishers before finding one that would print and promote the book.
According to the UK's Mail Online in an article you can read for yourself here, Vilar, 40, terminated 15 out of 17 pregnancies. She has two living children, in addition to two teenaged stepchildren, with her current husband.
Vilar's first husband, a man of 50 when she married him at age 16, was vehemently opposed to fathering children. So each time Vilar came up pregnant, she had an abortion. Fifteen in all.
Sadly, there are those who will validate and compound -- dare I say reward? -- her actions by buying the book.
She explains in her book that her actions were a form of rebellion against her husband.
If you can figure that one out, you are smarter than most. Her husband did not want children, so she got pregnant anyway, but then killed the children. Hmmm ...
For further mystification, if you make time to read the online article, check out some of the comments. Ms. Vilar has been widely vilified for her behavior ... even by those who insist they are "pro-choice."
Pro-choice is a euphemism for "pro-abort" and it is interesting that those who have no problem with a woman murdering one or even two of her children, use the word "egregious" when the same woman takes out a hit on fifteen of her kids.
Ostensibly these same people do not flinch when fifteen women -- or for that matter, thirty women or fifty women or one hundred women -- who have each aborted one child, pass by them in the street.
Why is that not considered egregious? Where is the outrage for each of those women's defenseless dead children?
Even the fact of fifty-three million (and counting) American women who have aborted their children since 1973 has no discernible adverse effect on the pro-aborts; on the contrary, they continue to applaud each woman's "right to choose" and to excoriate those who would oppose it.
But if the hundreds of comments on the article about Irene Vilar's new book are any indication, ONE woman aborting FIFTEEN children is more than many pro-aborts can stand. Apparently somewhere between the numbers one and fifteen, abortion becomes less palatable to these free thinkers.
That is, if only one mother is involved.
A photograph of this particular mother accompanies the online article. An open, all-American face grins directly into the camera, strikingly reminiscent of Peggy Lipton's hippie-chick-gone-straight Julie Barnes character from the late '60s-early '70s TV hit The Mod Squad.
Begging the question, how does one smile so brightly for the camera after years of paying others to abuse one's children to the point of death?
And how is it that this woman -- this mother -- not only walks free, but is given the opportunity to profit from the deaths of those children by writing a "memoir" of the experience?
Come to think of it, Irene Vilar invested a fair amount of money in those abortions. Perhaps she would like to recoup some of her losses. Sadly, there are those who will validate and compound -- dare I say reward? -- her actions by buying the book.
But after all she has put herself, her body, and her precious children through, amazingly Ms. Vilar is anything but opposed to abortion. She comments: "Motherhood has made me feel accountable. It hasn't made me less pro-choice. It's just that I understand and feel the weight of the privilege we have in exercising our right to choose."
The fifteen babies -- the ones who had no choices -- are safe in Heaven, together with the tens of millions of others who have been aborted. The only hope for Ms. Vilar is to repent, obtain forgiveness for her sins, and trust Christ for salvation.
No matter how successful, her book and its proceeds will not bring Ms. Vilar the healing and resolution she desperately needs. Only God can do that.
Reader Comments (6)
Her quote, "I understand and feel the weight of the privilege we have in exercising our right to choose," is one of the most offensive I've ever heard. The way she explains her actions -- that they were a form of rebellion against her husband -- is essentially saying, "I cut off, literally, the noses of my unborn children to spite my husband's face."
Not buying the book isn't enough. We should boycott the publisher. We should boycott any store that carries the book. And, personally, I'm somewhat tempted to boycott the name Irene.
You know, I don't even have words for this. You've said it all and I agree. I'm also with Kev on boycotting the book, the publisher and yes - maybe even the name!
Interestingly, some of these same people have a major problem with a mother who chooses to bear and give life to 15 children. I wonder if this woman will have the awful things said about her that are said about someone like Mrs. Duggar. I remember when a friend of mine who was for abortion, also thought a local woman who was pregnant and a crack addict, should be arrested for child abuse. (She was, in fact). But I pointed out that if she had chosen to kill the child outright she would have been lauded for choosing responsibly. I guess when you have no gold standard (the Bible!) for your behavior, then it isn't surprising when your moral compass doesn't point north.
@ Kev ... what a great comparison: "I cut off the noses of my unborn children to spite my husband's face." That's a very sick way of thinking. I am so thankful that I cannot imagine having that sort of attitude to motherhood. The name Irene isn't to blame, but I'm glad today it's not my name.
@Mari ... it left me speechless at first too. One almost wonders if she made the whole thing up, it's so preposterous. Either way, I pray she finds the Lord and obtains His forgiveness. Not that she appears to be looking for it.
@ Tracie ... as always, your comment has made me look at another facet of this situation. You're right: if Ms. Vilar had been inclined to bear and raise 17 children, she'd be a big joke. And while I fully support the Duggars' decision to have as many children as they like, and wish them every happiness, I have at times objected to the shameless way in which they seem bent on profiting from their reproductive activities. Having a family isn't a dog and pony show.
Great post! I read this story on Fox's website today and I was as astonished as you were. Her fresh-faced, all American look just doens't give away the fact that she's had 15 abortions and is apparently proud of it. Rosezilla is right, without true north on your compass you end up with a very distorted world view like this one.
She's an abortion addict, to get back at her husband who doesn't want kids.
Yep....she's a libtard. Classic symptoms on display.