Are liberal women really proud to have abortions?

American Thinker ^ | 10/2/15 | Ed Straker

[markomalley]

Taking a nod from the gay pride movement, abortionists are calling on women to celebrate their abortion experiences on Twitter with the hashtag #ShoutYourAbortion. Really.

The goal, according to Amelia Bonow, 30, who posted on Facebook on Sept. 19 that she had had an abortion at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Seattle last year, was to encourage women who had kept their abortions secret to speak up. “A shout is not a celebration or a value judgment; it’s the opposite of a whisper, of silence,” Ms. Bonow said in an interview. “Even women who support abortion rights have been silent, and told they were supposed to feel bad about having an abortion.”

For good reason. An abortion is the ending of a life.

Above is Lindy West, one of the creators of #ShoutYourAbortion.

“The problem for a long time was that this stigma felt like a negative cloud,” said Kate Cockrill, the executive director of Sea Change, a nonprofit organization she helped found two years ago to attack the stigma.

[Nevadan]

re: It has always been my contention that the biggest supporters of Abortion are those who have had abortions or that encouraged someone to have an abortion.

I have concluded that as well. I have also noted that women who have had abortions and regretted their choice make up a huge portion of the pro-life movement.

[Slyfox]

The Guttmacher Institute did a study in the late 70s/early 80s where they asked young women - if abortion were not legal would you still try to get one?

The answer was that 90% of the respondents said that they would not try to get an abortion if it weren't legal.

That means the remaining 10% would still try to get abortions if they were not legal.

The study was done before the Internet and Guttmacher saw fit not to include it in the search engine.

But the fact remains, only 10% would try to secure an abortion if it weren't legal.

Only 10%.

[wardaddy]

I think most of the biggest proponents of abortion are women who never have and never will have their Lily piereced by an evil man

[wbill]

yup, crabs in a pot, all of them.

[originalbuckeye]

Personally, I don't believe they have a conscience. I think it is the ‘Humanist’ approach, that the only thing that matters in your life is what you 'believe' is right. No conscience required.

[flushed with pride]

The person pictured above is the face of an aspiring Stalinist komissar.