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Activist: Abortion Is a 'Great Decision,' 'Should Be As Common as Possible'
CNS News ^ | 8/11/14 | Penny Starr

Posted on 08/12/2014 10:21:03 AM PDT by wagglebee

Left-wing activist Sunsara Taylor said in an Aug. 6 video interview that women make a "great decision" when they get an abortion and that the procedure is a "perfectly responsible choice" that should be available to all women on demand.

"Abortion is not murder," Taylor said on the YouTube station Acronym TV. "It's a perfectly responsible choice for a women to make if you are pregnant and don't want to have a child.

"It's a great decision," Taylor said. "It shouldn't be rare. It should be as common as possible."

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The interview was conducted by another left-wing activist Dennis Trainor as a promotion for the ongoing "Abortion Rights Freedom Ride" in Texas by her group "Stop Patriarchy" to protest that state's abortion laws that require doctors who perform the procedure to meet the same medical requirements as doctors who perform other surgeries.

Taylor says on her "Stop Patriarchy" website that she "takes as her foundation the new synthesis on revolution and communism developed by Bob Avakian," the chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA.

Trainor says in the video that his YouTube channel is funded by viewers and the Popular Resistance website launched by the Occupy Wall Street protestors. Trainor says in the video he has been "pro-choice" since he "impregnated" his college girlfriend and helped her get an abortion.

When asked by Trainor about the movement by states to enact laws that protect women and their unborn children - in 2013, 22 states enacted 70 abortion laws, according to Guttmacher Institute -- Taylor says "Christian Fascists" are responsible.

"It's sort of a concentrated push in this country on the one side by all-out Christian Fascists who force women back to the status of breeder," Taylor said.

She also said many in the pro-abortion movement have embraced the idea that abortion should be safe, legal and rare - a point Taylor disagrees with.

"There is nothing wrong with abortion," Taylor says. "Fetuses are not babies. Women are not incubators."

"Abortion is not murder," Taylor says. "It's a perfectly responsible choice for a woman to make if you are pregnant and you don't want to have a child."

"It's a great decision," Taylor says. "It shouldn't be rare. It should be as common as it's needed."

The tagline for Taylor's Stop Patriarchy's pro-abortion cause: "Abortion on Demand Without Apologies."

PopularResistance.org seeks to aid in bringing movements for peace, justice, economic fairness and environmental protection together into an independent, nonviolent and diverse movement that can end the power of concentrated wealth, shift power to the people and put human needs before corporate greed.

She has written on the rise of theocracy, wars and repression in the U.S., led in building resistance to these crimes, and contributed to the movement for revolution to put an end to all this. She takes as her foundation the new synthesis on revolution and communism developed by Bob Avakian.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; moralabsolutes; prolife
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To: wagglebee
"It's a great decision," Taylor said. "It shouldn't be rare. It should be as common as possible."

She makes a very compelling argument for abortion. Too bad her mother didn't have one.

21 posted on 08/12/2014 10:46:43 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: physcitech; wagglebee
"I’m OK with birth control. But when it comes to abortion, that is where I draw the line..."

I used tofeel the same way. Forty + years ago, it made perfect sense to me: the more conrtaception, the less abortion.

Fourty + years' experience has taught me something, though. It's that contraceptive-acceptance is the larval stage of abortion-acceptance. With the single exception of the Soviet Union, in every other country on earth, contraceptive acceptance preceded and triggered abortion-acceptance, and contraception and abortion go up in tandem. Also on the upward curve: STD's. Also on the upward curve: non-marital childbearing.

And at the same time, what's crashing: marriage and birth in wedlock.

I used to say, "If abotion is the fire, contraception is the water.

I now say, with vastly more evidence: "If abortion is the fire, contraception is the gasoline."

22 posted on 08/12/2014 10:47:57 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Most of us know more from being old, than from being told.)
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To: Da Coyote
The only acceptable reason for abortion is if genetic testing indicates that the offspring is a progressive.

If someday a "gay gene" is discovered and mothers start aborting babies because they have it, liberals' heads will literally explode.


23 posted on 08/12/2014 10:50:40 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: physcitech

I understand what you are saying, but the truth is that abortion and contraception go had in glove with one another.

Once we divorced procreation from the sexual act, we opened the door to serial divorce, unwed mothers, and the legitimacy of abortion because one never really wanted to get pregnant anyway. A large percentage of abortions are because contraception failed.


24 posted on 08/12/2014 10:50:44 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: wagglebee

Obama seems to be PUNISHMENT for American abortion madness..
Who can say....... WE DO NOT DESERVE HIM?..


25 posted on 08/12/2014 11:01:21 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

+1


26 posted on 08/12/2014 11:01:25 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: wagglebee
"It's a perfectly responsible choice for a women to make if you are pregnant and don't want to have a child."

If 'they' don't want to have a child, why do they have unprotected sex and get pregnant ?

27 posted on 08/12/2014 11:11:18 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: wagglebee

Similar to JFK’s thoughts on abortion.


28 posted on 08/12/2014 11:11:41 AM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: SECURE AMERICA

My wife’s water broke at 15 weeks. My little girl was born at 33 weeks. We had an ultrasound of her at 15 weeks, and you can recognize the face.

It’s a baby.

My little girl is doing well BTW. Came home two weeks ago.


29 posted on 08/12/2014 11:12:19 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: SECURE AMERICA
“There is nothing wrong with abortion,” Taylor says. “Fetuses are not babies.

Oddly, these same people would scream at the top of their lungs if someone aborted some 'puppies' claiming it was OK because they aren't 'dogs'.

30 posted on 08/12/2014 11:15:01 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Jim from C-Town
Once we divorced procreation from the sexual act,

I remember when that happened.

"And ADAM saw that EVE was naked".

31 posted on 08/12/2014 11:20:05 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: wagglebee

“It’s a great decision,” Taylor said. “It shouldn’t be rare. It should be as common as possible.”

Yeah, it would have been even better if her MOM had not lived in a time when it was ‘rare’.


32 posted on 08/12/2014 11:22:25 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Elsiejay
Perhaps I’m overly hung up on semantics, the actual, objective meanings of words.

You mean like using the words PLANNED PARENTHOOD on the banner of abortion clinics for the immature and irresponsible ?

33 posted on 08/12/2014 11:28:57 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: wagglebee

I applaud her honesty. She is only saying what a lot of her ilk think but would never utter publicly.

“Know thy enemy.”


34 posted on 08/12/2014 11:33:10 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: wagglebee
THE STATE OF THE NATION:

Female-1: Did you see on the news where Muslims were cutting people's heads off ?

Female-2: No. I didn't have time to watch it. I had to go to the abortion clinic and have the doctor rip the fetus out of my womb and cut it's head off.

35 posted on 08/12/2014 11:34:54 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: SECURE AMERICA

To anyone who says “it’s not a baby”,
I say, “you’re right, it must be a wombat.”


36 posted on 08/12/2014 11:36:01 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: wagglebee
Abortion is not murder," Taylor said on the YouTube station Acronym TV. "It's a perfectly responsible choice for a women to make if you are pregnant and don't want to have a child

Sounds to me like she's struggling to convince herself of that...

37 posted on 08/12/2014 11:40:04 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If it doesn't include border security, it isn't "reform." It's called "amnesty.")
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To: redgolum

So happy for you and your family. Give her a kiss from me.


38 posted on 08/12/2014 12:22:04 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

My first thought also, at least she is saying what their goals were from the start.


39 posted on 08/12/2014 12:23:33 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: wagglebee
To Sunsara Taylor:

 

"Aren't you glad your mother didn't have an abortion?"


40 posted on 08/12/2014 6:07:49 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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