I read somewhere that abortion advocates in LA are trying to start a door-to-door campaign, where women who have had abortions go knocking on people’s doors to personally tell them they have had an abortion. Somehow, this campaign is supposed to reduce the stigma of abortion by showing people that the women having abortions are ordinary women, just like women people know.
I haven’t heard about how that effort is going, but I know that if someone were to knock on my door and tell me how she had an abortion, it would hardly be a stigma-reducing experience for her. I’d probably be extremely snarky, in fact.
I have no sympathy for those who publicize their abortions and then find out that outside of their pro-abort circle, there is not a lot of support for them.
I don’t answer my door to strangers. My three dogs don’t take kindly to strangers.
I’ve known several women who have had abortions, including some close friends. I don’t berate them about it, because I see them as victims too, but it hasn’t changed my mind about it.
And that knocking on doors thing, it’s more likely to be a turn off than anything else.