Posted on 04/15/2022 4:29:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
I used to be pro-choice. That was before I had an abortion, experienced serious trauma, and then sat in on a veterinary abortion a few years later.
Most abortionists have been taught that the procedure is safe, helpful to women, and that if it’s not legal, women will die in back-alley abortions. Many claim that thousands of lives are saved every year thanks to legal abortion care. In truth, back-alley abortion deaths were rare before Roe v. Wade, and legalizing abortion didn’t prevent Dr. Kermit Gosnell from murdering living babies and endangering the lives of countless women until he was convicted and sentenced to serve three life sentences in prison.
It’s not enough for abortion to be legal in the first trimester any longer. Pro-abortion stances have gotten more and more extreme with each year. The lines are constantly being redrawn as younger and younger women are taught that if they cannot kill a viable baby that would live outside of the womb -- even up until the day it’s born -- that they are somehow oppressed. Anyone who questions this religion of political extremism is considered an enemy. If you’re a woman, you’re a traitor. Worst of all, abortion-celebrating liberals everywhere will scream out the false accusation that, “Pro-lifers only care about babies until they are born!”
I was raised by a liberal mother and indoctrinated by the public education system. I fell for Planned Parenthood’s marketing campaigns. When I got pregnant the summer before my senior year of high school, not only did the father coerce me into having an abortion, all my friends said it was my only option, and my own mother drove me to have the procedure done. I wasn’t raped, I wasn’t molested.
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Premature expulsion of the FETUS in animals is what changed her mind?
That could be an experience that might influence high school boys and girls to avoid promiscuity. Kids love their pets.
I don’t think it changed her mind. I think her own abortion did that. I think the veterinary abortion helped her galvanize her feelings about how cruel and callous abortions really are.
With all the weirdness and eccentricity that characterizes human history, no society anywhere at anytime has championed infanticide until we came along.
I thought it was well written and heartfelt.
Just an aside. Please note that in California, infanticide up to six weeks (after being born) is being mooted. Also see my tagline.
She lost me here:
“Birthright does not lobby against abortion. They don’t picket at clinics, or take any government money. They don’t vilify women who have abortions either. This wonderful charity was created before abortion was legalized, and it was solely designed to provide support for mothers”
The pro life bigotry comes through
And what pro life or anti abortion group is getting government money?
I don’t know, I think discounting the entire article on the basis of that (I didn’t see it as “pro-life bigotry” as you did) is a bit like throwing out the baby with the bathwater, so to speak.
I didn’t see it that way.
I admit, I almost felt some repellence at her usage in her narrative of the example of a pregnant cat being spayed, but in retrospect, I think that is acceptable because even if one FEELS it and is going through it (as she did with her own abortion) that person doesn’t actually SEE it happening. Humans are very visual, so it doesn’t surprise me that having an abortion would be one thing, but SEEING one, even on an animal, would be quite a different thing.
I would disagree with discounting the article, stanne. I think it has merit. But we may disagree on this.
Being pregnant when you don’t want to be makes you feel powerless. The situation is made worse in most cases by the realization that your decisions led to this condition.
The women that I know that have gotten an abortion had a bizarre sense of disconnect between sex and pregnancy. They twist reality in such a way that pregnancy is something that happened to them, not something they did to themselves.
Think of it like a driver who habitually speeds, then gets mad because they got a speeding ticket. A rational person can look on this from the outside and say that the potential consequence of speeding is getting a ticket. To the speeder they see others speeding and getting away with it. They themselves often speed and don’t get a ticket, but this time they did. Somewhere inside they know their decisions, their actions, caused them to get a ticket, but they react with anger and frustration. It…isn’t…FAIR!
Pro-abortionist wallow in the “unfairness” of an unplanned pregnancy. It isn’t fair that guys can have intercourse and not get pregnant. It isn’t fair that just because she forgot to take a pill one morning she will have 9 months of discomfort, probably a painful delivery, then a financial millstone around her neck. That a woman has to go through this and a man does not is unjust and the only remedy is for the woman to be able to become unpregnant. To correct this situation, she must have access to a simple medical procedure.
The realization that they are ending a life, killing their child, is buried. The only consideration is their convenience. It is them verses an invading non viable clump of cells and they are not going to change their plans or be publicly shamed.
The pro-life position is one of rationality. It is obviously a life that has been created. It has a heartbeat, brainwaves, and reacts to it’s environment. The pro-life people I know actively support women through their pregnancy and after. I work closely with CareNet and have a donation box in my store for people to drop off baby food, diapers, wipes, etc. it is a fallacy that pro-life people only care about a child until it is born. Such an accusation is warped and twisted as it shows that the pro-abortion accuser realizes on some level that it is a child they are killing and that they don’t care about it at all.
I didn’t intend this to become a novel. I get introspective on Good Friday. I weep when I think of the Creator of the Universe becoming flesh and allowing himself to be painfully executed for our sins - for my sin - and that we, as a society, react to that sacrifice by allowing our innocent children to be killed. Lord, forgive us our sins. Have mercy on us.
The l point of her piece is to recognize the organization she works with. She exalts it by saying nothing but nasty, bigoted things about other pro life groups.
You can say whatever you want about my reaction. She lost me.
Thanks for posting
Sad…
I think that you missed the authors point. Pro-abortion activists claim that Pro-lifers only care until the child is born. She states that’s not the case as Birthright helps Mothers with living babies, it’s their only mission, supporting Mothers who chose life.
I assume you take issue with this one block of text from her article:
"... Birthright does not lobby against abortion. They don’t picket at clinics, or take any government money. They don’t vilify women who have abortions either..."
Just so I understand your point of view (and this is not a trick to get you to say something I will attack you with-I was simply genuinely surprised you discounted the article, and wanted to know why) you take issue with the following statements because:
If so, I understand your criticisms, which I think are fair. But I would also consider whether the author really intended them as such.
You must not have heard about Molech yet (Lev. 18:21 “You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.”)
Or how the Chinese dealt with pregnant women who’d already had a baby, after the one-child policy was put into place.
The author meant to bring attention to her group. That is the point of the article I’m not sensitized, I am an expository writer. I can read an emotional one sided argument quickly and can point to the flaw.
There are no prolife groups getting any give
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There are many prolife groups who are non vilifying Rachel’s Vinyard is one
Not all prolife groups vilify post abortion mothers and would never do so
Instead of criticizing my comment you could perhaps look at hers and see where she states that prolife groups other than hers are helpful and not bad and vilifying. Until then leave me out of your weak arguments
“I think that you missed the authors point. Pro-abortion activists claim that Pro-lifers only care until the child is born. She states that’s not the case as Birthright helps Mothers with living babies, it’s their only mission, supporting Mothers who chose life.”
I didn’t miss the point. You are reiterating it. Her group is not the only non vilifying group.
You are discounting her point because she only mentioned her group, the one she has experience with.....and she never said there weren't other groups. She named the one she knows to disprove Pro-death groups claims. My opinion is you're being touchy simply because she only spoke about her experience and didn't list groups she doesn't know. That's really too bad as they all work toward one thing, saving babies.
I did not insult you, I was trying to engage in civil discourse which I always try to do here on this great forum, but I can see that isn’t your goal since you felt compelled to directly insult me. I’ll be sure to exclude your superior intellect from any discussion, since it doesn’t add any value.
Ya. Ok.
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