{"id":96839,"date":"2016-07-01T11:24:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T15:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=96839"},"modified":"2016-07-01T13:36:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T17:36:07","slug":"chelsea-handlers-abortions-did-not-protect-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/chelsea-handlers-abortions-did-not-protect-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Handler’s abortions did not protect her"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’m not what you would call a “fan” of Chelsea Handler. I can’t recall her making me laugh even once\u2014\u00a0and I can say that and not feel all that bad about it because I know she couldn’t care less. I do, however, care about her. I care that she was so alone and desperate for love at the age of 16 that she was in a bad relationship with a boyfriend she admits she shouldn’t have been with.<\/p>\n

I care that she had parents who didn’t do anything about the fact that she was sleeping with a boy she shouldn’t have been with. It’s upsetting to me that she had to go through two abortions at the age of 16 because she was told those\u00a0were the only choices she had. It seems that\u00a0abortion\u00a0is something she has convinced herself of, rather than something she believes in.<\/p>\n

In an essay for Playboy<\/a>, Handler discusses her\u00a0two abortions and how great they were for her. I’m, however, not buying it. I’m not buying that any other 16-year-old out there right now in a bad relationship, pregnant and alone, is happy about having an abortion.<\/p>\n

Handler starts off with the following statement:<\/p>\n

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“When I got pregnant at the age of 16, getting an abortion wasn’t the first idea that popped into my unripened brain. […] Why not? I can have a baby. […]<\/p>\n

Of course, the idea that I would have a child and raise it by myself at that age, when I couldn’t even find my way home at night, was ridiculous. My parents recognized that, so they acted like parents for one of the very first times in my life and took me to Planned Parenthood.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I can’t imagine that anyone thinks immediately upon learning of their pregnancy that abortion is what they should do. There has to be that moment when you picture yourself with your baby\u2014 and that single\u00a0moment must have, at least, some flicker of happiness in it,\u00a0some bit of wonder at what it would be like. However,\u00a0then the doubts set in.<\/p>\n

While Handler says she believes\u00a0God does not want “everybody to go through with their pregnancies,” the fact is\u00a0He\u00a0was right there creating that baby. Maybe that child\u00a0would have been just what Handler needed to get out of her situation and out of that bad relationship. Perhaps\u00a0that baby would have given her and her mother something to bond over; and maybe God gave her that second child\u00a0so she could have a second chance at opportunities she lost\u00a0with her first. But Handler\u00a0turned her back on that child, too – or was made to think she had to.<\/p>\n