Posted on 01/23/2013 4:57:50 PM PST by Pinkbell
Of all the diabolically clever moves the anti-choice lobby has ever pulled, surely one of the greatest has been its consistent co-opting of the word “life.” Life! Who wants to argue with that? Who wants be on the side of … not-life? That’s why the language of those who support abortion has for so long been carefully couched in other terms. While opponents of abortion eagerly describe themselves as “pro-life,” the rest of us have had to scramble around with not nearly as big-ticket words like “choice” and “reproductive freedom.” The “life” conversation is often too thorny to even broach. Yet I know that throughout my own pregnancies, I never wavered for a moment in the belief that I was carrying a human life inside of me. I believe that’s what a fetus is: a human life. And that doesn’t make me one iota less solidly pro-choice.
As Roe v. Wade enters its fifth decade, we find ourselves at one of the most schizo moments in our national relationship with reproductive choice. In the past year we’ve endured the highest number of abortion restrictions ever. Yet support for abortion rights is at an all-time high, with seven in 10 Americans in favor of letting Roe v. Wade stand, allowing for reproductive choice in all or “most” cases. That’s a stunning 10 percent increase from just a decade ago. And in the midst of this unique moment, Planned Parenthood has taken the bold step of reframing the vernacular – moving away from the easy and easily divisive words “life” and “choice.” Instead, as a new promotional film acknowledges, “It’s not a black and white issue.”
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
Why can’t we agree that how they felt about their pregnancies was vastly different, but that it’s pretty silly to pretend that what was growing inside of them wasn’t the same? Fetuses aren’t selective like that. They don’t qualify as human life only if they’re intended to be born.
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When we try to act like a pregnancy doesn’t involve human life, we wind up drawing stupid semantic lines in the sand: first trimester abortion vs. second trimester vs. late term, dancing around the issue trying to decide if there’s a single magic moment when a fetus becomes a person. Are you human only when you’re born? Only when you’re viable outside of the womb? Are you less of a human life when you look like a tadpole than when you can suck on your thumb?
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It seems absurd to suggest that the only thing that makes us fully human is the short ride out of some lady’s vagina.
I'll give her credit. Is her position evil? No question. Is it is logically consistent? Absolutely. Most pro-aborts are not logically consistent, attempting to rationalize that what they are killing is not a person. I think there are some who have convinced themselves (this applies especially to those in the middle and some low information pro-aborts) that what they are killing is not a person. To admit that it is is something that they can't reconcile with their conscience. I think many pro-aborts, especially those who work in the abortion industry, do know it is a person being killed, but they have to keep up the lie in order to appeal to other pro-aborts who deny the truth and the middle.
This woman, though, knows the truth, and she says, "So What?!! Who cares?!!" She literally writes, "If by some random fluke I learned today I was pregnant, you bet your ass I’d have an abortion. I’d have the World’s Greatest Abortion." So logically consistent? Indeed. Evil? You betcha.
MS magazine was publishing the early writings of this thinking, 20 years ago.
Roe v Wade AD. Happy 40th Anniversary, Baby Commercial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l88fRoOD2rk
For someone trying not to mince words, she still managed to shy away from the most precise descriptions of her hobby. "Not-life" sounds like something from 1984's NewSpeak. The English word she is avoiding would be "murder".
"If by some random Fluke I learned today I was pregnant . . .
Did someone mention abortion and the perpetually amorous Ms. Fluke in the same sentence?
Pure evil I agree... she is admitting that she desires to be the executioner for the defenseless ( the unborn, elderly and disabled)
She has declared herself God
Chilling....
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Translation, “I’d kill a baby, a two-year-old, or granny if I thought it would make my life happier.”
These people are psychopaths.
Can’t wait to see logical gymnastics as sex selection abortions gain ground, and the inevitable day when prenatal testing identifies homosexuals in utero. All of a sudden it WON’T be purely a woman’s choice...
Sometimes, I’m glad I’m so old.
From “Jihad Watch” (among many possible sources):
“And as one jihadist put it, “We love death. You love your life!” “
So it’s not like the author in question doesn’t have plenty of company.
I guess she made it clear. Killing a human being is no big deal.
This means they are not pro-life. They are pro-abortion.
Pro-aborts are so evil, it’s not worth wasting words on them; not even worth praying for them in my opinion. They’ve chosen their lover (in Satan), and he will “provide” for them after their deaths. It’s the woman who is post-abortive and regretful that needs prayers. It’s a tough place to be, but upon healing, there is no limit to how much she can love (unlike the scum that wrote this post).
“Can’t wait to see logical gymnastics as sex selection abortions gain ground, and the inevitable day when prenatal testing identifies homosexuals in utero. All of a sudden it WON’T be purely a woman’s choice...”
It won’t matter. It’s all about their selfishness. There’s no loyalty to anyone who is of no use to them.
if you ever run across a libtard that says, so what if abortion ends life?
just say,
well, so what if guns end lives?
and watch their heads explode.
Just tired of the cowardice of this party...
Actually she has declared herself to be Satan, which she likely doesn't have a problem with. Not yet, at least. After swimming in the lake of fire for eons, she will understand that it was a problem.
With Obama in office evil has become emboldened. It no longer thinks it has to hide in the closet, and is coming out. It isn’t that it has changed, it has just decided not to pretend anymore. It thinks it no longer needs to.
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