Why the Founder of #ShoutYourAbortion Had to Go Into Hiding

Los Angeles Times ^ | 9/30/15 | Maria L. La Ganga

[nickcarraway]

Amelia Bonow is in hiding.

She left her apartment here after her address was published online and the death threats began. Her crime? She had an abortion. And after the U.S. House of Representatives voted on Sept. 18 to defund Planned Parenthood, she updated her Facebook status with a proud declaration.

“Hi guys!” it began. “Like a year ago I had an abortion at the Planned Parenthood on Madison Ave., and I remember this experience with a nearly inexpressible level of gratitude.”

She wrote about how “the narrative of those working to defund Planned Parenthood relies on the assumption that abortion is still something to be whispered about.” And how many people still believe that — “if you are a good woman” — you should feel awful if you have one.

But you shouldn’t, the 30-year-old wrote. And she doesn’t.

She signed off, “#ShoutYourAbortion.” And a movement was born.

[VanDeKoik]

If only those chopped up kids could have hid.

[BigEdLB]

She wants to live unlike the babies she is butchering?

[GilGil]

Who says women who have ad abortions make the best mothers.

[SaveFerris]

She shouted, so what’s the big deal? She wanted a lot of attention and she got it. Was that not the purpose? She’s on the right in this photo, apparently.

Amelia Bonow (right) and Lindy West. Photo courtesy of Bonow

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[SaveFerris]

[And a movement was born.]

Well, so to speak.

[DBeers]

She crawled out from behind the SCOTUS created privacy penumbra and was shocked that not all drink the koolaid.

[JoeDetweiler]

Hmmmm....it’s almost like she killed a lion or something.

[exDemMom]

I read somewhere that abortion advocates in LA are trying to start a door-to-door campaign, where women who have had abortions go knocking on people’s doors to personally tell them they have had an abortion. Somehow, this campaign is supposed to reduce the stigma of abortion by showing people that the women having abortions are ordinary women, just like women people know.

I haven’t heard about how that effort is going, but I know that if someone were to knock on my door and tell me how she had an abortion, it would hardly be a stigma-reducing experience for her. I’d probably be extremely snarky, in fact.

I have no sympathy for those who publicize their abortions and then find out that outside of their pro-abort circle, there is not a lot of support for them.

[allendale]

A woman who kills the human life in her own womb and then celebrates the death is bizarre and is never to be trusted under any circumstances. She is quite capable of any abomination.

[ilovesarah2012]

No sympathy from me. In a sane society they would all be in hiding.

[SgtBob]

I wouldn’t throw her under a bridge, let alone throw her in the sack...

[ilovesarah2012]

I don’t answer my door to strangers. My three dogs don’t take kindly to strangers.

[goodwithagun]

I’ve made several sarcastic Tweets to her, Cecile Richards, and PPACT regarding this issue. The latter two have been getting hammered the last few months. If social media is any indication, the majority of Americans don’t like abortion.

Also, it’s good to see they’ve dropped the safe, legal and rare bullshit they used to lie about and finally shout about what they really stand for.

[nathanbedford]

We have America at its last decadent gasp, this transparent attempt to justify murder stands as the signal of the last days when good becomes evil and evil good.

Despite his other failings, Justice Kennedy at least has his mind right on the issue of abortion and he has served up an opinion which puts the lie to the drivel we read in this article. I have quoted him extensively in a vanity because he describes in heartrending and grizzly detail the process of late-term abortion. In doing so utterly discredits the evil written this article.

I highly recommend a review of the flimsy rationalizations for abortion set forth by justice Ginsburg made so stark by the opinion of Justice Kennedy in Ruthie "Remidies" is Preganant! A different view of Gonzolas v. Carhart

[Irenic]

The red lipstick is jarring.

[TXBlair]

“Many women want to live in a world where you can say, ‘I’ve had an abortion, and I’m perfectly fine with that,’ and not have people saying they want to kill you.”

And many babies want to live in a world where their own mothers don't want to kill them. Guess which group gets my compassion?

[Hugin]

I see their example of a “threat” isn't really one at all. It's an analogy. Presumably that's the most egregious example they could come up with. The left loves their victimhood.

[The_Republic_Of_Maine]

"A woman who kills the human life in her own womb and then celebrates the death is ..."

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Insane!

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Boo hoo.