Posted on 05/17/2019 8:05:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Iowa. Kentucky. Mississippi. Ohio. Georgia. Alabama. What do these states have in common? Courage and compassion. They’ve passed Heartbeat bills (Missouri and Louisiana are on their way), banning the brutal act of abortion once a heartbeat can be detected in unborn children.
I love how mainstream media is trying to spin this as a male versus female political fight (well, at least they’re admitting that there are only two genders). They ignore all the pro-life women in this fight—the ones who run the majority of pro-life organizations and the ones fighting in state and federal legislatures who reject the violence of abortion.
All across the Twittersphere, pro-abortion activists are tweeting in ALL CAPS: NO UTERUS, NO SAY!!! Funny. Didn’t seven white men in black robes deliver the violence of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton in the first place? Guess that’s an acceptable form of “patriarchy.”
CBS News laments: “Alabama just criminalized abortions—and every single yes vote cast by a white man.” Gasp! Didn’t know it was a crime to be a white male politician.
Didn’t all white men (91% of Republican white men and a smaller 60% of Democrat white men) make women’s right to vote, the 19th Amendment, a reality?
USA Today asks: “25 Men voted to ban abortion in Alabama. Do they reflect the rest of America?”. It starts off with more alarmist language: “25 white male Republicans in Alabama voted to ban abortion at every stage of pregnancy.” There those Radical Republicans go again, believing we’re all created equal.
Didn’t all white male Republicans vote to abolish the injustice of slavery?
And then there’s the horrific tragedy of rape, which the Left is relentlessly exploiting. Never mind they ignore it when Planned Parenthood fails to report the rape of underage victims. Those rape situations don’t bother them. No. Only when they realize how potent it is to use the 1% to justify 100% of abortions.
I am that 1 percent.
My biological mother was raped, yet she rejected the violence of abortion. I was adopted and loved instead. I’m not the “residue of the rapist”, as Senator Vivian Davis Figures described those like me who were conceived in rape. I’m a human being with equal worth to anyone planned. I couldn’t control the circumstances of my conception. Could you, senator?
As an adoptee who grew up wanted and loved in a multiracial family of 15 and as an adoptive father with four children, I’m here to say there’s another side of this painful issue. There are others like me who were conceived in the violence of rape, like my friend Rebecca Kiessling, an attorney and passionate defender of life. There’s the former Miss Pennsylvania, Valerie Gatto, Trayvon Clifton, Monica Kelsey, Jim Sable, Pam Stenzel, and many more whose stories offer a different perspective than mainstream media’s myopic pro-abortion view. There are women who became mothers from rape who courageously chose life, like Jennifer Christie, Liz Carl, and Rebekah Berg.
I mean, who really are the extremists here? Those who think that every human being has the right to life? Or people who celebrate the needless slaughter of 1 million innocent humans each year in America? People who boast about having their abortions like Gloria Steinem sporting an “I had an abortion” shirt? People like fake feminist Jill Filipovic who suggest severing part of a man’s penis every time he impregnates someone. People like Cecile Richards who compare protesting abortion to protesting a colonoscopy, because an unborn child is no different than feces?
When it comes to rape and abortion, how do you heal violence with more violence?
Let’s be real here. Even if Alabama’s Human Life Protection Act had a rape and incest exception, the confused Handmaid’s Tale cosplayers would still be out in full force. Fake feminists need to exploit tragedy to promote their false equality. And they never seem to find space in their screeds to talk about punishing the actual criminal—the rapist.
Remember when the bipartisan Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act was signed by President George W. Bush? Every abortion group, including the NAACP, descended upon DC in 2004 in a massive protest, called the “March for Women’s Lives.” How dare you prevent a child from being partially birthed in order to have her tiny skull crushed and body parts severed to remove that separate human being from her mother’s body!
Dr. Leana Wen, the historically-challenged President of Planned Parenthood, declared on Twitter: “I can’t believe I have to say this—but there is no such thing as infanticide in medical care. There is no such thing as abortion up until birth.” Clearly she didn’t get the memo about the Planned Parenthood-led “March for Women’s Lives” demonstration 15 years ago when pro-abortion activists went all apoplectic when Republicans and some Democrats voted to stop the brutal practice of partial birth infanticide.
According to the New York Times, Ron Fitzsimmons, the executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers, admitted that the barbaric intact dilation and evacuation procedure (aka “partial birth abortion”) was “common.”
And then there was Virginia Governor Ralph Northam calmly explaining how infanticide is practiced. Oh, and then there’s Gosnell, who happened to be committing infanticide for years in Philly—delivering babies alive and then snipping their spinal cords to kill them. He was finally convicted of murder and jailed.
New York’s recently passed Reproductive Health Act reiterated that abortion up until birth, for any “health” reason (physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman's age as declared in Doe vs. Bolton) is legal as long as the abortionist vouches for it. How convenient.
Vermont just passed H57, which eliminates all abortion restrictions, allowing abortion up until birth. The legislation also decriminalizes self-induced (aka “back alley”) abortions.
Fake feminism is the extremism. It sees compassion in an act of violence. It sees strength when someone succumbs to despair. It sees selfish autonomy where God designed selfless dependency.
Remind me how many kids ‘aloser mill-ano’ has taken in again. Sort of like the folks that are all for trespasser until you ask them how many they’ll take in. Then you get “Well, I would by my apartment is really tiny.”
I’ve never understood this whole “except in the case of rape” business. First off, rape very rarely results in pregnancy. In fact many rapists never ejaculate. Second, why would you kill the only perfectly innocent party, the baby? It’s the rapist who should be killed, put down, for the good of society. But then we’re no longer a moral people, and what once was a justice system is now a legal system.
This is not going to sit well with the pro-abortion lobby that has suddenly gathered on FR. Where are the mods?!
The “exception in rape” has always puzzled me. Its a great gap that pro-life politicians don’t simply dig a little deeper on the logic of such exceptions.
How is justice in any crime achieved by killing the innocent bystander?
Here is the simple fact of the matter
There’s something called RU 486. The morning after pill
Regardless of whether you’re sexually assaulted or you have unprotected sex and are concerned about pregnancy you can easily just take the pill and there will be no baby
I am still 100% opposed to this and all forms of contraception but that is just my personal view point
All of these pro life bills merely said that if you have let that baby developed to the point where it is a human being with a heartbeat then we are going to protect it
We’re talking at least 16 to 20 weeks old at that point
Again if you’re sexually assaulted you have plenty of time to without a doctor get rid of any chance that you’re going to have a baby as a result of this sexual assault
So I think all of the hysteria over this in this world today with the pill Ru. 4 86 is quite silly
“How is justice in any crime achieved by killing the innocent bystander?”
I’ll start this off, by saying that I agree with you — the rape doesn’t justify the murder of an innocent.
But the justification they use, while wrong, is not merit-less: specifically, the rapist not only forced himself on a woman, but she is forced to have his seed grow in her and undergo the pain of childbirth.
That’s pretty damn terrible thing — like being violated for 9 months.
So, while I disagree with their conclusion (murder of the innocent is OK), I fully see their point. That’s a horribly traumatic thing for a woman to endure.
A lotta stupid women out there...
“Regardless of whether you’re sexually assaulted or you have unprotected sex and are concerned about pregnancy you can easily just take the pill and there will be no baby”
And I agree that is the lesser of the evils.
Waiting is simply absurd.
Abortion in the case of rape is still taking the life of an innocent. It adds insult to injury. It is not allowed in natural law, logic, a civilized society nor, BTW, in catholic teaching
Plus the expenses plus the trauma plus health issues plus .... OTOH, there are quick remedies to end whatever may happen.
I believe that a raped woman should not have to carry a baby. It may not be good for the mother or the baby.
HOWEVER, as you say there are several ways to take care of that issue in a legal way.
I know a lovely, beautiful woman who was date raped. And when I say beautiful, that includes inner and outer beauty.
She did indeed get pregnant and chose to keep the baby.
Her daughter turned out to be a charming girl who went straight to the gifted programs in school. She is super bright.
What a loss it would have been not to have brought this darling, brilliant little girl into the world.
.5%, actually.
RE: Her daughter turned out to be a charming girl who went straight to the gifted programs in school.
Where’s the father? Was he punished for what he did?
“spin this as a male versus female”
Yeah, as if boys/men NEVER insist their shack-ups get abortions.
It’s all BS.
Or like busing illegals to sanctuary cities.
Agreed. I think I went for that “rape/incest/mother’s life” stuff.
The former are NOT the baby’s fault, and the latter is basically a desperate strawman that almost never happens - not these days, anyway.
They have heartbeats long before you know for sure. Trust me.
Judy Garland might have been aborted. I think the doctor talked mom out of it.
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