Should pro-lifers feel responsible for businesses negatively impacted by protests...

Jill Stanek ^ | Jill Stanek

[C. Edmund Wright]

I think this is the wrong question. Should businesses think twice about locating next to abortion clinics is a better one.

[freedomfiter2]

In January Jivin J reported on pro-abortion Portland, Maine, businessman Mike Fink, who began sponsoring counterprotests and offering free food to abortion supporters who rallied against pro-lifers protesting in front of the Planned Parenthood next door to his restaurant.

Why should the prolifers feel bad? This evil man deserves God’s curse.

[stars & stripes forever]

We have a consumer-driven marketplace. What a business markets results in profits or losses.

[Yosemitest]

Pro-lifers do NOT feel responsible for anything.
All they care about is "having sex without responsibility, without concern".
Pro-lifers are VERY SELFISH.
They don't care who they hurt, or how many they hurt.
They WILL ACCOUNT to God one day, and that day IS coming!

[stevem]

It’s hard to sympathize with someone who thinks every live birth is a failure.

[exDemMom]

If I were looking to set up a business somewhere, I’d be glad of the warning that an abortion mill operates in the area. I wouldn’t want my business anywhere near that.

I can’t say I feel much sympathy for the pro-abort whose restaurant business is negatively impacted by its proximity to an abortion mill. He needs to recognize (but probably won’t) that whatever his personal feelings are, his callousness towards women and babies is a minority opinion.

[exDemMom]

Um... did you mean “pro-aborts”?

[Yosemitest]

Good phrase.
No, I was just using the "Headline Term".
"Pro-Death" is more accurate.

[Yosemitest]

"It’s hard to sympathize with" ... Satan!
Should every pro-abortionist consider their own birth a mistake, and abort themselves after birth?
That would solve the problem.

[SilverMine]

Pro-lifers do NOT feel responsible for anything. All they care about is "having sex without responsibility, without concern". Pro-lifers are VERY SELFISH. They don't care who they hurt, or how many they hurt. They WILL ACCOUNT to God one day, and that day IS coming!

You are nuts!

It is those that support abortion that had best fear their ultimate meeting with Christ, Christ, who chose to come to earth as a speck in the womb of a young teen virgin.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

It should be fair warning to businesses that if they lease, they must have an “escape clause” for a named list of businesses that if they lease nearby, could harm the first businesses franchise.

This could include quite a list: establishments that serve liquor or have live music performance, head shops, pawn shops, discount and charity stores, medical clinics of several types as well as “family planning” or abortion clinics, stores with significant amounts of paints, compressed gases, or volatile chemicals, etc.

[sagar]

Nobody has forced those businesses to be near the abortion provider. I can think of it both ways: guilt by association or opportunity to distance yourself and capitalize on the protests.

Sorry, but sob stories on poor businesses that are “hurt” by freedom of speech means that those businesses are not capable of defending themselves from the market forces. The free market is darwinist by nature; either adapt and survive, or be extinct!

[OneWingedShark]

We have a consumer-driven marketplace. What a business markets results in profits or losses.

Do we?

[murron]

There is an old house that used to house an infamous abortion clinic in our area. The abortionist died several years ago, but the house still stands. It’s in a commercial part of the area. Now an air conditioning shop is located in the house, and they new occupants know what used to go on there, but feel no problem operating out of this building. I don’t know how anyone with any sort of feelings at all could, in good conscience, run a business out of a place that killed so many babies for so many years.

[Yosemitest]

"It is those that support abortion that had best fear their ultimate meeting with Christ ... "

Just what do think I meant when I wrote (?)

They WILL ACCOUNT to God one day,
and that day IS coming!

I think you misread me.

[SilverMine]

This is what you wrote: Pro-lifers do NOT feel responsible for anything.
All they care about is "having sex without responsibility, without concern".
Pro-lifers are VERY SELFISH.
They don't care who they hurt, or how many they hurt.
They WILL ACCOUNT to God one day, and that day IS coming!

I stick by what I said, re read what you said. I think you might have meant pro-abortionist instead of pro-lifers.

[Yosemitest]

I agree. I meant pro-choice.
Sorry. my mistake.
I'm the one who misread. It should have read:

Pro-choice do NOT feel responsible for anything.
All they care about is "having sex without responsibility, without concern".
Pro-choice are VERY SELFISH.
They don't care who they hurt, or how many they hurt.
They WILL ACCOUNT to God one day, and that day IS coming!

[Morgana]

I wonder if it’s haunted?

[Morgana]

Yose I knew what you meant so I just didn’t say anything....