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Stop calling abortion a ‘difficult decision’
Washington Post ^ | 08/17/2014 | Janet Harris

Posted on 08/18/2014 5:34:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Planned Parenthood calls abortion “a difficult decision” in many of its consent forms and fact sheets. When NARAL launched a film on the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade in 2013, the president of the pro-choice organization called abortion “a difficult decision” women and couples face.

Lawmakers use the adjective, too. “It was a difficult, difficult decision, but it was the right one,” Nevada Assemblywoman Lucy Flores said last month in defending her choice to have an abortion at age 16. In 2005, then-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton described the decision to have an abortion as “one of the most fundamental, difficult and soul-searching decisions a woman and a family can make” and “often the most difficult [decision] that a woman will ever make.”

However, when the pro-choice community frames abortion as a difficult decision, it implies that women need help deciding, which opens the door to paternalistic and demeaning “informed consent” laws. It also stigmatizes abortion and the women who need it.

Often, abortion isn’t a difficult decision. In my case, it sure wasn’t.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: abortion; moralabsolutes; murder; prolife
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1 posted on 08/18/2014 5:34:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
“How quickly can I get this over with?”

The entire article is essentially the author bragging that she has no conscience. Pathetic.

2 posted on 08/18/2014 5:52:26 AM PDT by HerrBlucher (Praise to the Lord the Almighty the King of Creation)
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To: SeekAndFind

Can’t “stigmatize” abortion, can we?

I mean, killing the most innocent human being imaginable can’t be “stigmatized”.


3 posted on 08/18/2014 5:53:40 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: SeekAndFind

All she is doing is rationalizing the murder of an unborn child.


4 posted on 08/18/2014 5:55:23 AM PDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Wow. What a wonderful way to start Monday morning...


5 posted on 08/18/2014 5:58:14 AM PDT by Wingy
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To: SVTCobra03

The most vehement “pro”-aborts are “had”-aborts,

spending all their life energies on trying to justify their murder of their own child.


6 posted on 08/18/2014 5:59:13 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: SVTCobra03

We’ve taken the barbaric act of infanticide and sterilized it with paid professional hitmen called abortion doctors.

In some cases like Gosnell it has devolved back into it’s barbaric form but even that continues as the LIE that it is a safe procedure...


7 posted on 08/18/2014 6:00:12 AM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: MrB

[ The most vehement “pro”-aborts are “had”-aborts,

spending all their life energies on trying to justify their murder of their own child. ]

In for a penny, in for a pound....


8 posted on 08/18/2014 6:00:53 AM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: MrB
The most vehement “pro”-aborts are “had”-aborts,

I have seen this repeatedly. They spend the rest of their lives trying to justify themselves.

9 posted on 08/18/2014 6:03:15 AM PDT by madprof98
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To: SeekAndFind
Interesting that she admits that the overwhelming majority of abortions have nothing to do with fetal deformity, rape, or incest ... but are utterly selfish killings of healthy children who are inconvenient or "unwanted".

Sometimes the mask slips, and the lie is seen for what it really is.

10 posted on 08/18/2014 6:03:16 AM PDT by Campion
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Actually I find that a lot of the most vehement pro-aborts are lesbos who don’t have to worry about unwanted pregnancies.


11 posted on 08/18/2014 6:04:31 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Campion

You know what’s even more vile and depraved?

Most of the current abortions are on women who have been convinced that it’s the “right decision” by another woman who is trying to justify her own abortion.

Basically “You should kill yours so I don’t feel so bad about killing mine.”


12 posted on 08/18/2014 6:05:37 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: SeekAndFind
It also stigmatizes abortion and the women who need it

The 'need' for an abortion only arises after sex. With contraception and knowledge widely and freely available, there can be no excuse for unwanted pregnancy, save for carelessness or disregard... And if you're not paying for it, who cares?

Seems to me the better question is, "Why are these men impregnating 16 year old girls not being prosecuted, and why does the liberal war on these girls continue?"

13 posted on 08/18/2014 6:08:38 AM PDT by IncPen (None of this would be happening if John Boehner were alive...)
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To: SeekAndFind

The democratic mantra—kill babies but spare our enemies at all costs.


14 posted on 08/18/2014 6:09:32 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: SeekAndFind

It is a difficult decision between self-sacrifice and murder, hmmmmmmm do I want to sacrifice my own selfishness for my child or do I want to murder my child? Good parents pick the self sacrifice


15 posted on 08/18/2014 6:10:06 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: SeekAndFind

If we are to have legal abortions, it should be restricted to registered Democrats.

Those abortions should be Federally funded.

It should be illegal for Republicans to have abortions.


16 posted on 08/18/2014 6:24:38 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: SeekAndFind

This woman has a warped and very dangerous set of “values”. Murder is murder even where it’s legal. When it’s practiced for convenience, somehow it seems worse.

We went to see “The Giver” last night. Infanticide was central to the horror of the utopia. It was an interesting and ultimately hopeful movie. Certainly not the best movie I’ve ever seen but if the conflict between freedom and equality is informative to younger people it will serve a positive purpose.


17 posted on 08/18/2014 7:02:25 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: SeekAndFind

I bet she’s regularly cheated on.


18 posted on 08/18/2014 7:23:11 AM PDT by YourAdHere (Barack is the wife.)
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Murder is murder even where it’s legal.

Agreed completely…. The fact that a state makes it ‘legal’ matters not a whit when you are standing at the docket of the creator of the universe….

Hebrews 9:27……And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment

2 Corinthians 5:10…. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

19 posted on 08/18/2014 7:57:11 AM PDT by hecticskeptic (In life it is important to know what you believeÂ….and more importantly, why you believe it.)
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20 posted on 08/18/2014 8:03:50 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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