Posted on 09/29/2008 7:15:08 AM PDT by The_Tick_01
Why are the retro-feminists in the leftwing media, the National Organization of Women, and the abortion lobby, among other hysterics, militating so violently against Sarah Palin? It’s because they value abortion-on-demand over every other subject on earth.
This “value” started in the late 1950s – before abortion became de rigueur – when the Food and Drug Administration approved the birth-control pill developed by Dr. John Rock and two collaborators. For the first time in human history, women had a measure of control over their fertility, which gave them a greater chance to pursue economic independence and escape bad marriages.
But in just a few years – aided by the even-then leftwing media – feminists managed to convince a gullible public that most of the bedrocks of American life were bad.
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Love those slogans
FREEDOM TO CHOOSE.....(choose what?)
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS.....(but aren’t you choosing not to reproduce?)
Palin ‘chose’ and exercised her ‘reproductive rights’ yet she’s villified for it.
These people are insane yet we try to examine their actions rationally.
Women,who have an abortion are as tight as a glass of water.
This is the very end of a sliding scale of support for this issue. Further down the scale, a majority is against abortion, as in after the first trimester, against partial birth abortion, etc. Only the most die hard pro abortionist sits at the end of the scale where the feminists want the law to be.
This is: abortion to be allowed without parental consent/knowledge, up to the ninth month, (and apparently even after the baby survives the abortion), and with no spousal consent/notification. This is an extreme position, yet this is what feminists want, and say that this is the 'pro woman' position.
What no one knows is that in every category on the sliding scale above, more men are pro abortion than women. That is right, more women are against abortion. But feminists won't tell you that.
Men who support abortion fall into two categories: 1. Men who feel that it is not their decision to make., and 2. Men who consider abortion a convenient way to get rid of a problem. These men are often seen at abortion mills trying to coerce their girlfriend into an abortion.
If feminists were truly pro choice as they claim, maybe they could address this failure on their part to protect a pregnant woman's choice to have a baby.
My experience has shown that the women who scream the loudest about abortion rights are the ones who have had them and/or forced their daughters to have them. I’ve volunteered many years at my Catholic Parish’s abortion alternative outreach center and nearly every phone call I received were from young girls who said they were being forced by their Mothers to have an abortion. I would tell them that by law they couldn’t be forced but it was a psychological hold that made it nearly impossible to overcome. Once baby boomers are gone, I suspect abortion will no longer hold such a valued position.
My experience has shown that the women who scream the loudest about abortion rights are the ones who have had them and/or forced their daughters to have them. I’ve volunteered many years at my Catholic Parish’s abortion alternative outreach center and nearly every phone call I received were from young girls who said they were being forced by their Mothers to have an abortion. I would tell them that by law they couldn’t be forced but it was a psychological hold that made it nearly impossible to overcome. Once baby boomers are gone, I suspect abortion will no longer hold such a valued position.
I have never heard Sarah Palin say she is making it a campaign plank to overturn abortion law. Nor McCain. It is in the way Palin is living her own LIFE that screams PRO LIFE. This is fear mongering from the human sacrifice crowd.
I had an argument with a male relative about this. He said it was a decision to be made between a woman and her doctor. I asked if he was a woman. No. I asked if he was a doctor. No. Then I told him that, by his own argument, he should stay out of it.
By choosing to not abort, and not having her daughter abort,
SP has made an inherent moral statement that aborting is the wrong choice.
THIS is what the pro-aborts REALLY don’t want in the public discourse.
It has little to do with keeping future abortions legal, and everything to do with keeping past “choices” from being WRONG. Human psyches just cannot handle the realization that you killed your own child for your own (often) selfish reasons.
Taking the “say” away from the man is the CRUELEST thing that the left ever did to women.
“Hey, it’s not my place to say whether you have the abortion or not.”
[Hey, the guilt is ALL ON YOU if you kill that child]
This is typical of anyone that screams about “shoving your values down our throat”.
Typically, they are referring to someone that is simply living the right values, the values that the accuser KNOWS are right as well,
but, not wanting to be reminded that they are not living those values, their consciences bother them,
and they blame this discomfort on the example that they see.
They can hate Sarah Palin all they want, but what they really hate is the fact that they’re not like men, who can have their sex and go their way and not have any consequences for it. They also hate children.
I heard someone analyze this, WRT the beginning of the modern feminist movement.
Women of that time were looking at the immoral behavior of some men, like you said, having sex and moving on without commitment or responsibility.
Instead of requiring men to behave morally and responsibly in order to get sex, these women preferred to figure out a way to act equally immorally.
True story. I was sitting in the faculty lounge at the NYC high school where I was teaching, discussing with several colleagues the abortion issue. After a while most backed away from the debate and I was talking with one rather liberal male. He was talking about “choice” and I was asking him to examine what it was that was being chosen. He responded by it’s not a man’s place to make the decision and I responded that it wasn’t a woman’s right to determine whether an unborn life should be allowed to live. He eventually got to the point where, breathing heavily, veins almost popping out of his forehead, he raised his voice and said, “All I know is that you can’t tell me what me or my wife can and can’t do with our own bodies and if you try to take my wife’s right to an abortion away from her, I’ll f*@%ing kill you.”
The room fell silent. Incredulous, I asked, “Why is it your side always chooses death?”
You may have seen this before but it sums it all up rather nicely:
http://www.newmediajournal.us/staff/swirsky/02082007.htm
There are also a number of strongly pro-life women who have had abortions (ex. Jane Russell, Jennifer O’Neill). It was that traumatic experience that made them have a change of heart and become pro-life. What I’ve noticed about many abortion rights supporters, having watched some unedited pro-abortion rallies on C-SPAN, is that a lot of them are most likely lesbians. Of course, they generally don’t need to worry about having an abortion because they are unlikely to have an accidental pregnancy. I like to throw this joke out there about lesbians and unplanned pregnancy: “Oops, I didn’t pull the turkey baster out in time.”
You know, after rereading my ‘rant’, I realize I was a bit hard on men. I love men. I am married to one. A lot of men are openly pro life and most men are good people. I just hate when feminists use the word ‘choice’, when for a lot of women, it wasn’t their choice to have an abortion.
It's all "liberals" know -
using force to make the innocent pay for the consequences of the irresponsible.
Notice how it plays out in this campaign - someone puts up an ad that 0bama doesn't like, and he immediately tries to use intimidation to get the ad to stop,
instead of just putting up a counter-advertisement.
I’m not so sure the issue will go away due to attrition. As a matter of fact, I think it’s snowballing.
I assert that everyone who’s had an abortion realizes, eventually, the evil they’ve done. The most vehement abortion “rights” advocates are, as you say, those who are trying to justify and cover up their guilt.
So, a woman either has had one or encouraged her daughter, or others, to have one. The guilt of that death is now on two people, and they’ll both try to justify the “choice” by encouraging others to do as they have done - it’s a “right” after all.
It’s a snowball situation. Even worse, what if the young woman becomes an abortionist in order to justify what she’s done? Think about the accumulating guilt on her and her mother. Devastating.
Gloria Steinem: "Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with [Hillary] Clinton."
Eve Ensler, author of "The Vagina Monologues": "I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a particular thing for Polar Bears ... I need the polar bears ... she does not believe in evolution ... she does not believe in global warming ... [she] does not believe in abortion ... If the Polar Bears don't move you to go and do everything in your power to get Obama elected then consider the chant that filled the hall after Palin spoke at the RNC, 'Drill Drill Drill.' I think of teeth when I think of drills. I think of rape. I think of destruction. I think of domination. I think of military exercises that force mindless repetition, emptying the brain of analysis, doubt, ambiguity or dissent. I think of pain."
Sandra Bernhard, unfunny comedienne, warned that if Gov. Palin were to go to Manhattan, she'd be "gang-raped by [her] big black brothers."
Margaret Cho, unfunny comedienne, blogged: "She is evil" and then fantasized about having perverse sex with Gov. Palin, adding that Gov. Palin is "the worst thing to happen to America since 9/11."
Lindsay Lohan, of, um, Hollywood: "Is our country so divided that the Republicans' best hope is a narrow-minded, media-obsessed homophobe?"
Canadian writer Heather Mallick: Gov. Palin "has a toned-down version of the porn actress look favored by this decade's woman, the over-treated hair, puffy lips and permanently alarmed expression." Mallick commenting on Bristol Palin's boyfriend: "I'm not the one preaching homespun values but I'd destroy that ratboy before I'd let him get within scenting range of my daughter again ..."
Carol Fowler, South Carolina Democratic chairwoman: "Palin's 'primary qualification' seems to be that she hasn't had an abortion."
The DNC and Obomba refer to 'bringing Americans together,' and 'uniting' Americans.'
There is no way in hell I want to be united with the scum that comprises the left in this nation!
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