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On May 7, just in time for Mother’s Day, left-leaning New York Post author Elizabeth Bruenig wrote a piece<\/a> entitled, “I Became a Mother at 25 and I’m Not Sorry I Didn’t Wait.” Within hours, pro-abortion feminists reacted on Twitter with everything from vehement disapproval to unabashed vitriol. The author, now 31 and the mother of two children, celebrated\u00a0motherhood<\/a> and suggested that a common fear among millennial women, namely that they would lose themselves by having children, was unfounded.<\/p>\n

“[T]he truest thing about having children,” wrote Bruenig, “[…] is that it isn\u2019t a chore but a pleasure, not the end of freedom as you know it but the beginning of a kind of liberty you can\u2019t imagine.”<\/p>\n

Bruenig continued, “One of the things they don\u2019t tell you about having babies is that you don\u2019t ever have\u00a0a baby;\u00a0<\/em>you have\u00a0your<\/em>\u00a0baby, which is, to you, the ur-baby, the sum of all babies. The moment they laid her damp rosy body on my chest, I knew she would envelop my world.”<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0These career women embraced motherhood with no regrets<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

“What I didn\u2019t understand \u2014 couldn\u2019t have, at the time \u2014 was that deserting yourself for another person really\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>a relief,” she explained. “My days began to unfold according to her schedule, that weird rhythm of newborns, and the worries I entertained were better than the ones that came before: more concrete, more vital, less tethered to the claustrophobic confines of my own skull. For this member of a generation famously beset by anxiety, it was a welcome liberation.”<\/p>\n

Bruenig recognized that one’s sense of self as a woman, far from being something static, is practically always in flux to one degree or another, shaped by each woman’s own interests, her perceptions of the people and events around her, and by her experiences, including that of motherhood.<\/p>\n

“With the exception of \u2014 perhaps \u2014 a few immutable characteristics,\u00a0you<\/em>\u00a0are not something you discover one day through trial and error and interior spelunking; you are something that is constantly in the process of becoming, the invention of endless revolutions. You never know who you are, because who you are is always changing,” she wrote.<\/p>\n

Bruenig’s heartfelt observations of her experience of a mother’s deep love for her child were a bridge too far for many feminists<\/a> online. A sampling of their reactions even included personal attacks leveled at Bruenig’s husband.<\/p>\n

Abortion advocate Amanda Marcotte called the article “gross, pass.” She even went so far as to claim that Bruenig doesn’t respect women<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Writer Jude Ellison S. Doyle tweeted<\/a> a personal attack against Bruenig and her husband, stating, “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing this woman it was a tremendous personal achievement to be repeatedly knocked up by an Internet troll she met in high school.”<\/p>\n

Jill Filipovic, writer, attorney, and abortion proponent said she didn’t want to hear about women who were happy they had children in their twenties, but women who regret that their children exist<\/em> altogether. “I would really love to read more essays and op\/eds from women (and men, too) who regret having children as early as they did, regret having as many as they did, or regret having children at all,” she tweeted. “There’s not much about motherhood that remains publicly unexplored, but that does.”\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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These strong sentiments from abortion advocates against Bruenig was quickly matched by others of the opposing view.<\/p>\n

One such woman was author and former presidential candidate Marianne Williamson, who told Bruenig that to those attacking her, Bruenig was “just a symbol of some unowned part of themselves that they hate.”<\/p>\n

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Likewise, Amanda Kolson Hurley wrote that Twitter “has broken people’s brains to the extent that ‘it’s mother’s day and i love being a mother’ is now seen as a provocation.”<\/p>\n

But even as some decry motherhood and frame children<\/a> as antithetical to personal fulfillment, stories like Bruenig’s give voice to the experience of many, many women. Contrary to pro-abortion\u00a0feminists’<\/a>\u00a0insistence, they proclaim proudly: motherhood<\/a> is a beautiful, life-transforming gift.<\/p>\n

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On May 7, just in time for Mother’s Day, left-leaning New York Post author Elizabeth Bruenig wrote a piece entitled, “I Became a Mother at 25 and I’m Not Sorry I Didn’t Wait.” Within hours, pro-abortion feminists reacted on Twitter with everything from vehement disapproval to unabashed vitriol. 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