Posted on 04/19/2019 4:16:50 PM PDT by EveningStar
A 20-year-old college student’s Reddit post about “the worst, most backwards day” of her life is gaining traction online after she recounted how she was dropped on the side of the road by an Uber driver who disagreed with her decision to get an abortion
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You may be correct, but you don't know that, and admittedly I don't know what her feelings about pro-lifers were before the encounter.
While I sympathize with the Uber driver's revulsion, his "protest" did not change the mother's mind, and probably hardened her pro-abort stance. Here's what I care most about: Does the fetus live or die? It seems obvious to me that abandoning the mother in the middle of the trip was a terrible way to convince her to change her mind. If you want to change someone's mind, you start by forming a personal connection and finding things to agree about, not by behaving like an uncaring jerk. I don't think of the driver as any kind of hero. I think he might have blown a golden opportunity to save a fetus's life. While he was doing that, he also created bad PR for pro-lifers, and lost his job.
Can’t reason with people like that. Good pointthough.
We should just toss coat hangers at these evil bitches.
As a taxi driver allow me to tell you that people tell me extremely personal things with no probing on my part.
It is just a thing. You’d not believe for instance the medical stuff people tell me.
Isn't it staggering how so many people have become so indoctrinated about the truth of what an abortion is, that they are taking this young man to task for not participating in the MURDER of a human being when they certainly would not be defending him if it were the situation were the one you posited. That is, if she had said she was going to murder an already born human being.
Because, yes, then he would legally become accessory to murder and would face jail time for participating in the crime.
But if it's abortion, then he should have taken her as long as he preached at her on the way? Cause that's what Jesus would have done? (Or some such nonsense....)
How far we have fallen.
God help us.
Disagree. If the person you’re giving the ride to says they’re having you drive to his/her ex’s house to kill him/her do you do it?
Murder, legal or otherwise is still murder. The guy’s a rare hero in a culture with few heroes.
That’s right. What if she was going to kill her mother. Just because it’s legal to murder a baby, it’s no different.
As in actually reading the account rather than lynching the hero and instead exposing "conservatives" who did.
Oh, I see what you are saying. Because he agreed to drive her back instead of driving her to her appointment, he didn't really "abandon" her.
He drove away 15 minutes before a cab arrived for her, so he did not make sure she had transportation before leaving her. Her cab might never have arrived. Yet by your standards his actions should not be described as abandonment.
Right.
*terrified young woman*???
Where did you get that out of the story? Quit making HER the victim. You're buying into the liberal narrative.
People like her are not going to like pro-lifers any better if they cooperate with their plans to murder their child.
Anyone hell bent on killing their baby aka having an abortion, is NOT going to listen to reason
And he did NOT abandon her.
If you are more worried about getting people to like you than whether or not you are going to help a woman kill her baby, then you have some really screwed up perspective.
I posted this above:
He drove away 15 minutes before a cab arrived for her, so he did not make sure she had transportation before leaving her. Her cab might never have arrived. Yet by your standards his actions should not be described as abandonment.
I disagree.
Some things are worth losing jobs over.
The driver did not save the fetus's life. If anything he may have increased the likelihood that the mother would go through with the abortion. That's not worth losing a job over.
Jesus would drive someone to the abortion clinic?
Come’on man, that is something AOC would say.
And he is to be blamed for that? His compassionate attempt to persuade her to not go thru with this at first brought tears to her eyes, but she hardened her liberal lying heart. Likewise did many souls responded to the mercy and grace of Christ, who is not be blamed for their reaction, and instead made their damnation worse.
But for liberal so-called "Christians" the test of what is Christ-like is whether one gets rejected or not. Those who do are rejected by them. As they are by Christ.
It seems obvious to me that abandoning the mother in the middle of the trip
Which a fallacious charge, as has been documented. ("My Uber driver waited 10 feet away, probably expecting me to go back to Ithaca with him. After about 15 minutes, he asked me once more if I wanted him to drive me back. Firmly, I said no thank you. He drove away, and about 15 minutes later a cab came.”) Why did you believe and parrot this abandonment charge?
If you want to change someone's mind, you start by forming a personal connection and finding things to agree about, not by behaving like an uncaring jerk.
And just where do you also get this lying description? Go you read my post 66? "Behaving like an uncaring jerk" by seeking to persuade her not to go thru with her murderous plan? “I know it’s none of my business, but you’re going to regret this for the rest of your life,..There’s so much they don’t tell you. You’re making a mistake.” Knowing you are driving one to an abortion clinic means you do not have time to form a relationship with someone in the back seat. If anything, he could have said at the first that he would not take her there, rather than take time to try to persuade her and let her think about it.
I don't think of the driver as any kind of hero.
Rather if any one is then it is he, while you are like a coach potato damning one who heroically tried to save a human life and her from grief.
While he was doing that, he also created bad PR for pro-lifers, and lost his job.
More elitist delusion. So you likely think that Jack Phillips was also wrong for refusing to be complicit in celebrating an unlawful wedding?
I can’t say that I agree with his actions. That having been said, an Uber driver who kicked out someone who told the driver he’s a Christian would get a medal from most on the left.
That is where he was to take her.
He did not leave her alone.
He stopped at a gas station and antique store.
She refused a ride back.
SHE made her own decision.
Doing things the driver’s way failed to save the fetus. I don’t see anything to celebrate about that failure.
It certainly was.
He's not responsible for her going through with it and he did NOT have to participate it.
Kudos for him for being enough of a man to stand by his convictions.
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