"What I learned from my miscarriage" by Megan McCain. NYT 7/20/19

[CTyankee]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/opinion/meghan-mccain-miscarriage.html

Why does she feel the need to reveal this?

The most obvious answer is the coldest: she wants publicity.

But, also: she is needy emotionally and wants sympathy. This is her way of getting it.

I am sorry she lost a pregnancy that she very much wanted. At the risk of sounding insensitive, I am wondering why she felt the need to announce it in the editorial pages of the NYT. And why the Times ran it.

I don't suggest she should hide it, unless she wants privacy. That is her business. But NYT editors have discretion over what they publish and don't publish.

Why her? Why now, O mighty NYT?

[pangaia]

1. Her emotional and intellectual growth are stunted.

She is dead as a human being.
She needs others to confirm her existence.

[CTyankee]

3. Yeah, something is definitely wrong with her. She's been acting up on The View lately, too (altho

she always acts up on the show). Maybe Trump has forever smashed her belief in the Republican Party and she is finding it hard to recover.

Work it out with counseling, Megan. This stunt with the NYT will not help you as much as counseling.

[Rebl2]

23. Maybe because

she had a miscarriage is why she has been acting out so much. I don’t understand the NYT putting it on the editorial page.

[FarPoint]

2. Don't the right wing nutzo types

Call this or equate a miscarriage to an abortion?

[CTyankee]

4. I did wonder about that. But she kept it closer to her own predicament.

We'll see if she starts a crusade on The View. I don't think Joy or Whoopi will put up with it, however.

[Iliyah]

5. And women who has

similar experiences concerning miscarriages would be condemned and sent to jail for a crime by her Republican party.

Inasmuch as I grieve for her, the child and her family, this reminds of me Melanie's - "Be Best, no bullying" campaign.

[Aristus]

6. Megan, your fellow party members think you should go to jail because your pregnancy ended

without their permission.

I'm guessing you didn't learn that...

[CTyankee]

9. I dunno. I smell a republican rat here. If so, expect someone on the right to bring her miscarriage

up in a twisted way to condemn abortion. I don't put anything past these folks.

[MontanaMama]

7. Is Mike Pence going to make her

have a funeral for the fetus?

[madaboutharry]

8. There are two ways of looking at this.

One, Meghan McCann is a very emotionally needy person. She is example 1A in "the money can't buy you happiness" club. Regardless of the fact that she is an heiress to a 100 million dollar fortune, she is an embittered person. Who knows why some people are what those who speak Yiddish call farbissener.

That said, I think the issue of miscarriage has long been one that society finds difficult to discuss in the open. Many women are private people who would not choose to speak about it openly, but the flip side is that miscarriage creates terrible suffering and it is made worse when women feel they must suffer in silence.

I don't know what McCann's motivation is, but it could be that she does want to help others who are deeply hurt by the loss of a pregnancy. We can't get inside her head.

[CTyankee]

10. She may have those thoughts, altho it seems to me that a miscarriage usually elicits sympathy

from the most pro-choice women. The loss of a much wanted pregnancy is sad. It has happened in my own family and we all felt deep sorrow and loss. And we are all prochoice Dems.

[hlthe2b]

11. for sympathy, attention, to push her anti-abortion agenda and demonstrate her "moral superiority"

You pick it.

[CTyankee]

12. Why do you think the liberal NYT published it in the OpEd pages?

I think that is strange. I wonder what went on behind the scenes at the Times re publishing this as an OpEd. It had to have a strong opposition.

You offered a number of reasons and I choose "moral superiority." She has been under attack on The View for a while now and I think her moral superiority is the best answer.

[hlthe2b]

13. I'm sure they were convinced by her comments re: wanting to destigmatize miscarriage

[CTyankee]

14. Who stigmatizes a miscarriage?

I am strongly pro-choice and I have nothing but sympathy for a woman who has lost a wanted pregnancy. It happened in my own family with two pregnancies! The couple found a doctor who could do in vitro and after a couple of failed tries, succeeded. And now we have a wonderful little boy and I have another grandson! But we all didn't learn about the failed tries and that was their choice.

[hlthe2b]

16. No 'human' would, but the recent attacks on abortion are going to scoop these women up too.

Women WILL be ultimately questioned as to whether their miscarriage was "really" spontaneous. Heaven forbid poor women, especially poor women of color. Even if they are not able to be "charged", they will be hounded by those prosecutors willing to abide by these laws (if they are not clearly struck down by courts).

So, stigmatizing in normal settings? Hell no. In regressive anti-choice states? Yeah, it is coming.

[kimbutgar]

15. She needs to quit the view and focus on getting pregnant

The stress of being a fox sychopath on a liberal talk show is too hard for her

[CTyankee]

17. There is a lot of truth to what you say, IMO

She herself has sorta said this. In some way, I think she blames the liberal media for her stress and eventual miscarriage. Maybe a period of rest and recuperation for her wounded soul will help her regain her reproductive health.

[Wellstone ruled]

18. Okay,

is Megan thinking about a Political Career? If so,is she playing to the Reich Wing of Arizona,especially the Mesa crowd and Sadona? That's the money areas and mostly White. Or is her Hubby going to make a run? Remember he is a member of the End timers.

[blueinredohio]

19. As immature as she is, she doesn't need a child.

[cyclonefence]

20. "spontaneous abortion"

Wikipedia:

Miscarriage, also known as spontaneous abortion and pregnancy loss, is the natural death of an embryo or fetus before it is able to survive independently. Some use the cutoff of 20 weeks of gestation, after which fetal death is known as a stillbirth.

[sinkingfeeling]

21. To me, it's basically the same "pro-life" dogma: insisting

that embryos are 'children' at the moment of conception.

[CTyankee]

22. And if that is her belief, then she is welcome to have it.

Medically, it is pretty indefensible. But medical science goes out the window for those who believe that life begins at conception, period, the end.

She can believe it, espouse it, advocate for it. No one is or will be forcing her (or anyone else) to have an abortion. That is called CHOICE. And you, Megan, have choice. And the pro-choice side is predicated on a woman's right to make those moral decisions on her own, and not having it taken away by the state. See how that works?