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“Pro-Choice” Activist: “I Love Abortion,” “Don’t Want it Rare”
Life News ^ | 3/14/12 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 03/14/2012 4:10:05 PM PDT by wagglebee

A pro-abortion activist writing at one of the leading pro-abortion web sites is admitting what many the pro-life movement has always known but what leading defenders of abortion refuse to admit. Until now.

Jessica DelBalzo, an activist writer from Flemington, New Jersey who has written for numerous progressive web sites, puts her extreme pro-abortion views on display at RH Reality Check, where she candidly admits in a headline, “I Love Abortion: Implying Otherwise Accomplishes Nothing for Women’s Rights.”

“I love abortion. I don’t accept it. I don’t view it as a necessary evil. I embrace it. I donate to abortion funds. I write about how important it is to make sure that every woman has access to safe, legal abortion services. I have bumper stickers and buttons and t-shirts proclaiming my support for reproductive freedom. I love abortion,” DelBalzo declares.

The pro-abortion activist categorically opposes even the “safe, legal and rare” mantra that pro-abortion politicians like Bill Clinton have used to appear to be more moderate or mainstream on abortion and that even former NARAL president Kate Michelman used to make her organizations position appear less polemic.

As Delbalzo writes, “And I bristle every time a fellow activist uses a trendy catch-phrase or rallying cry meant to placate pro-lifers. The first of these, “Make abortion safe, legal, and rare!” has been used for decades as a call for abortion rights.”

“Safe and legal are concepts I fully support, but rare is something I cannot abide. I understand the theoretical mindset: it is better for a woman to prevent an unwanted pregnancy than to bear the physical and financial burden of an abortion. While my own abortion involved very little pain and a minimal financial expense, one which my ex-boyfriend was willing to share with me, even I can admit that using condoms or the pill is preferable to eight weeks of nausea and weight gain,” she writes. “However, there is no need to suggest that abortion be rare. To say so implies a value judgement, promoting the idea that abortion is somehow distasteful or immoral and should be avoided. Even with affordable, accessible birth control, there will be user errors, condoms that break, moments of spontaneity. The best contraceptive access in the world won’t change the fact that we are merely human and imperfect in our routines.”

She also admits: “Similarly, I’ve heard reproductive rights activists claim that “no one likes abortion,” in an attempt to find common ground with anti-choicers. While it may be true that no one likes the physical act of having an abortion (any more than she may like her yearly mammogram, life-saving chemotherapy, or temporarily uncomfortable dental surgery), a great many women like abortion itself.”

With CNN and Gallup polls showing a majority of Americans want all or most abortions made illegal, this puts the pro-abortion activist in a tiny minority of Americans who want abortion legal throughout pregnancy for any reason without apology.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; culturewar; deathindustry; infanticide; moralabsolutes; proabortion; prolife
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To: wagglebee

>> DelBalzo declares.

Hitler’s disciples. What else is there to say?


61 posted on 03/15/2012 12:00:53 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Newt/Sarah 2012)
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To: wagglebee

Too many pro-lifers buy into the premise that it’s a “tough” “heart-wrenching” “difficult” decision...

...all terms used to excuse abortion.

The fact is, most abort with deadly coldness.

And abortion advocates, while advancing the terms above to cloak the reality of abortions and thus get the majority of the public to look the other way, really want to come out and say the truth: they glory in abortions.


62 posted on 03/15/2012 4:18:46 AM PDT by DNA.2012
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To: a fool in paradise

Abortion is treated as an exception to the principle of minors not being able to legally consent to surgery, because to the entrenched feminist ideology which currently rules America, abortion supersedes everything.


63 posted on 03/15/2012 4:26:14 AM PDT by DNA.2012
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
If the children are still infants, this is often written off as “postpartum depression”, though the women show no signs of depression, just an intense desire to kill their children.

That's common.

64 posted on 03/15/2012 4:28:25 AM PDT by DNA.2012
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To: beaversmom

It seems like she may have aborted to get revenge on the father. Just a guess...


65 posted on 03/15/2012 4:50:35 AM PDT by abishai
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To: DNA.2012

I pondered adding that postpartum depression is a real condition that affects a lot of women, but figured it would sidetrack what I was writing. There is a whole lot of difference between postpartum depression and homicide.


66 posted on 03/15/2012 7:11:01 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Raising Public Awareness" means "I'm a scoundrel selling snake oil.")
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To: wagglebee

These people have become dramatically more arrogant and brazen since 2008.


67 posted on 03/15/2012 7:15:02 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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Pinged from Terri Dailies


70 posted on 03/18/2012 10:28:18 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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