For someone who doesn't own a TV and doesn't watch the news because he/she doesn't want to fill their head with "gore and trash," I'd say the PP is pretty fixated on, even obsessed with, gore.
"Killing babies" "Infant genocide" "Sick science experiment" "Baby murdering" "Mothers hiring assassins to kill their children" Not to mention the vivid (and inaccurate) descriptions of how abortions are performed. This poster doesn't need TV or news - he or she is already living in a horror movie. I've read somewhere that the pro-life movement, because of its black-and-white, good vs. evil approach to the issue of abortion, often attracts mentally ill people. I think we have living proof of that here. It's impossible to reason with people like this. It's like trying to reason with Holocaust deniers, anti-vaccine people, white supremacists, 9/11 truthers, doomsday preppers, people who believe the President Obama is a Muslim socialist terrorist, people who deny that the moon landing occurred, etc. |
Please stop referring to abortion as genocide. It's not genocide. Genocide is defined as the systematic destruction of a certain racial, ethnic, religious or national group. The definition of genocide is based on this group affiliation. "Babies" are not a group as so defined. Your rhetoric is hyperbolic and misleading. |
No, I am the OP who spent yesterday afternoon in a planned parenthood waiting room while waiting for my friend's procedure. Just observing that different women going through the termination of a pregnancy experience it vastly differently. My friend spent the afternoon bawling her eyes out; this other young woman was cheerfully talking about Harry Potter. I don't judge the other girl at all. I find it offensive when people act like women should either have no feelings about terminating a pregnancy, or make the assumption that they are going to be broken forever by their choice. It is different for everyone and people should have more respect. |
So, you live in the D.C. area? Which clinic did you go to? |
I'm sure you won't, but OP - please don't answer this question. |
How come you're advising OP not to answer it? Because that undermines the idea that we're just a bunch of gals chatting informally about our lives here, rather than some people engaging in a stealth campaign to sneak anti-abortion views into a conversation? |
We are not in the DC area. What does location have to do with anything? |
OP here. Are you kidding? I am very much pro-choice. I drove a friend to have an abortion yesterday. Does the fact that she had a really hard time with it seriously make you think I am a stealth anti-choicer? What the fuck. |
How did you know they were all there for an abortion? I've been to PP many times, but have never had an abortion. |
Because I'm much more concerned about providing information to pro-lifers about a particular clinic that could be targeted for protests or other actions. |
Good point. |
Stop shilling. You are projecting your own issues and I am not amused. |
I really shouldn't engage further with someone who so obviously misses basic points (you are on the internet, right now. Using said internet to research a probably deceased little girl - who, again, you would have heard of if you either lived in this area or ever left your house - does not mean you would have a television in the house. ?) Abortion is not "killing innocent babies." And you are anti-choice, 100%. No one who is pro-choice is pro-murder, in the first, because abortion isn't murder and in the second, because we believe that such a personal choice should be left to the woman who knows her circumstances, the support available to her, the dangers she might face, and whether that's keeping it, ending it or giving it up for adoption she should be supported. And I didn't say anything about how individuals feel about social policy, I said what anti-choicers tend to vote. What I said is borne out by surveys and studies. And again, the stunning lack of real empathy, you know, for the born: if you outlaw abortion, you'll just lose women. I notice you failed to address that. |
No, PP is right about on. You do speak with a Glenn Beckian flavor of doom. And what is she "shilling," exactly? |
Every time you post, you prove my point. |