I have to agree with you on this. I think abortion is abhorrent, but the approach used by some pro-life activists is just appalling. What they did in the situation you describe was totally counterproductive, imo. It certainly wouldn't help persuade someone to not have an abortion by screaming in their face that they are a murderer...after all, so many have been conditioned to believe that it's not murder, it's a "choice". It simply scared the crap out of that poor girl...she probably went elsewhere to get her abortion, anyway. If the stats and stories are true, most of the women/girls that go to PP end up getting an abortion, anyway.
IMO, it would be much more helpful to simply pass out pamphlets for organizations that will help with alternatives like placing a baby for adoption, or...come to that, directions to the nearest welfare office. Many of these young girls going for abortions are in this position because they are looking for love in all the wrong places. A little Christian charity and love would go a long way to achieving our goals...a lot further than calling people murderers or bombing clinics or killing abortionists.
>>>after all, so many have been conditioned to believe that it's not murder, it's a "choice".
If they called for information, like this article says, and the girl I saw was a teen....I doubt there was any conditioning.
It is just the approach. Planned Parenthood pretends to be a supportive friend. So their approach is sold.
I don't even think it has to go from protest signs to pamphlets. Just talk to them.
Bump! to you.
Even in states that hadn't legalized it yet they were still performed either openly or disguised as D&Es or something else.
The Supreme Court probably had no clue that a backlash would ever develop.
If the Supreme Court hadn't artificially accelerated the abortion legalization process, the "pink ladies" might never have formed and there might never had been a pro life movement. Sorta like the frog in boiling water analogy.
I spoke with Sara Weddington several times before and after Roe was announced. It wasn't just a victory for abortion , it was a crushing of the lowly worthless housewife that she and her gaggle feared because they could easily be them.