Posted on 02/25/2011 4:28:51 PM PST by wagglebee
Frances Kissling, the former president of Catholics for Choice, wrote an opinion piece in Friday’s Washington Post titled, “Abortion rights are under attack, and pro-choice advocates are caught in a time warp.”
Kissling concedes that the pro-abortion movement has steadily lost ground with the American public because they have been unwilling to adapt their arguments to the changes in science and technology which make the unborn child ever more visible. She wrote that the pro-abortion movement must (sort of) think about abortion bans when the baby is viable and also acknowledge that second trimester abortions are different from first, although her explanation why that is so is (to be charitable) incomplete. It also misses that pro-lifers do not pro-rate legal protection.
Kissling’s op-ed was a remarkable specimen of a line of argument some pro-abortion strategists have honed in the last decade: make portentous sounding statements and then qualify them essentially out of existence.
“The fetus is more visible than ever before, and the abortion-rights movement needs to accept its existence and its value,” she writes. “It may not have a right to life, and its value may not be equal to that of the pregnant woman, but ending the life of a fetus is not a morally insignificant event.”
Talk about changing course but not direction.
Why does Kissling even pretend to acknowledge the obvious? Because she must admit that the right-to-life movement is using “increasingly sophisticated arguments” against abortion. This is true, although it leaves the false impression that we started out with weaker or simple arguments.
In reality, pro-life success has been due primarily to our constancy in argument, message, and drive. We have never stopped believing in the humanity and the rights of the unborn.
We have always grounded our arguments in that fact, and we have found tremendous strength in the willingness of our grassroots base to fight tirelessly for this purpose.
Technology, like ultrasound, provides visible proof of what we have been saying for decades: the unborn is like us, only smaller. The inability of the pro-abortion side to grasp this is astounding.
Kissling tells her readers that the pro-abortion movement is trapped in a time warp. A better description is that it is caught in a tailspin.
Exactly!
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If Democrats were pro life they would lie, take control, and outlaw it.
Abortions are cold blooded murder.
A slaughter of humanity.
Genocide.
Nazis like Mengele would be proud of the left’s obsession with abortion rights.
The massacre of helpless innocent babies.
"The massacre of helpless innocent black babies as intended."
Death-loving monsters.
Ending the life of a fetus is not a morally insignificant event
Welcome aboard lady.
She's insane. An unborn baby, she says, has "existence and value" but no right to stay alive. She admits that abortion is "ending the life of a fetus" but that said unborn baby has no right to live.
When people try to hold view that contradict each other, it leads to insanity. She's insane. And more and more people are realizing this.
All liberals hold contradictory beliefs. Ergo...
Question: Do you think the nation will become more pro life as the baby boom generation reaches retirement age?
“performed for reasons of convenience”
Agreed!
Has anyone else seen the despicable commercial for a birth control pill that shows women “going shopping” for a trip to Paris, a house, and something else, with the inferred message, “Don’t have that baby; use your money and time for something you’ve always wanted.”?
BASTARDS.
Years ago when I listened to Mike Savage here and there, he used to say that liberalism is a mental illness.
I’d take it a step more and say it’s criminal insanity.
I (hope) believe that many people are waking up to the falsity of the pro choice position. I also believe that there should be absolutely no federal funding for abortions. Period. That is why I am for defunding Planned Parenthood completely. If Planned Parenthood is so great then let them survive on private contributions.
Good. Lets hope so.
I’m still grappling with “Catholics for Choice”.
Margret Sanger
You can’t miss those commercials if you watch channels like E!, Lifetime, and (I think—not positive) HGTV.
Those ads are SO offensive. It’s clear they are marketing them to young women that are not even married and even to teenagers. Their message: there’s something wrong with you if you’re not sleeping around if you’re under 25. By the time these girls are in their 40’s they will have swallowed these pills for 25 years or more!
I can’t believe our society thinks this is a good idea when there are so many unknown health risks involved with these pills. They warn that there are risks to the heart, and these are only the minimum warnings that they have to give. I’m sure they are more dangerous than they are saying.
bump!
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