You’d think they’d know better. |
What’s your point? They should not presume to judge someone else’s circumstances, regardless of their personal experiences. |
And had abortions, but their abortions are always moral abortions. |
Now you are just projecting. |
You’re really unfamiliar with that term? It’s not projection. Rick Santorum’s wife had an abortion, but of course that was OK. |
Anyone who works at a clinic can tell you stories of anti-abortion protesters who have come in for their own abortion. Republican women get abortions at the same rate as Democratic women. |
There’s a whole thread about this here, read and learn. https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1178761.page |
![]() You’re such a clown. I’ve never had an abortion, not an elective one, not one to clean up after a miscarriage. I am pro choice. Forced birther women have abortions at the same rates as women who vote for human rights. It’s even a trope, if you’re unaware, the vocab for which stems from this Joyce Arthur piece: https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion/ I know forced birthers have an allergy to clicking through on something that might actually prove them incorrect, so I’ll paste part of the piece here: “[…] In the spring of 2000, I collected the following anecdotes directly from abortion doctors and other clinic staff in North America, Australia, and Europe. The stories are presented in the providers’ own words, with minor editing for grammar, clarity, and brevity. Names have been omitted to protect privacy. “I have done several abortions on women who have regularly picketed my clinics, including a 16 year old schoolgirl who came back to picket the day after her abortion, about three years ago. During her whole stay at the clinic, we felt that she was not quite right, but there were no real warning bells. She insisted that the abortion was her idea and assured us that all was OK. She went through the procedure very smoothly and was discharged with no problems. A quite routine operation. Next morning she was with her mother and several school mates in front of the clinic with the usual anti posters and chants. It appears that she got the abortion she needed and still displayed the appropriate anti views expected of her by her parents, teachers, and peers.” (Physician, Australia) “I’ve had several cases over the years in which the anti-abortion patient had rationalized in one way or another that her case was the only exception, but the one that really made an impression was the college senior who was the president of her campus Right-to-Life organization, meaning that she had worked very hard in that organization for several years. As I was completing her procedure, I asked what she planned to do about her high office in the RTL organization. Her response was a wide-eyed, ‘You’re not going to tell them, are you!?’ When assured that I was not, she breathed a sigh of relief, explaining how important that position was to her and how she wouldn’t want this to interfere with it.” (Physician, Texas) “In 1990, in the Boston area, Operation Rescue and other groups were regularly blockading the clinics, and many of us went every Saturday morning for months to help women and staff get in. As a result, we knew many of the ‘antis’ by face. One morning, a woman who had been a regular ‘sidewalk counselor’ went into the clinic with a young woman who looked like she was 16-17, and obviously her daughter. When the mother came out about an hour later, I had to go up and ask her if her daughter’s situation had caused her to change her mind. ‘I don’t expect you to understand my daughter’s situation!’ she angrily replied. The following Saturday, she was back, pleading with women entering the clinic not to ‘murder their babies.'” (Clinic escort, Massachusetts)” And so, many, many forced birther women are big ol’ hypocrites. As are many forced birther male politicians who have paid for abortions (or in the case of a Trump staffer, putting abortion-causing drugs in his girlfriend’s drink: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jason-miller-abortion-pill-smoothie-trump-aide-aj-delgado-a8552321.html). |
All I see are a lot of anecdotes cherry picked to support the authors position. Clearly you have no data or evidence to support your claim that anti-abortion women have the same rates of abortion as pro-choice women. |
Women have always had abortions. Women across time and cultures and the political spectrum. They will continue to always have them no matter how much medieval-minded retrogrades try and even succeed in banning it. No matter if you ban abortions from the moment of conception (a ridiculous thing to try if ever there was one) there will ALWAYS be abortions. Because women do not always want to gestate or cannot accept gestating a baby into this world. What people like you are going to do is force abortions to go underground and become unsafe. I know you think that's okay since you want to punish women for getting one. But some day someone you know and care about is going to be harmed by your party's extremism. Oh well. |
I see that you’re in denial. ““I’d say about a third of my patients would reveal in their counseling or during the procedure, you know, ‘I want you to know I’m pro-life, but you understand why this has to be,’” said Dr. Nicholas Gideonse, recalling his work as an abortion provider in rural Oregon. “I think in almost all of those cases, they were making that choice in order to be the best parent that they could be.” There were certainly those pro-life patients who “stridently insisted that their circumstances were particular and special,” Gideonse added. But there were cases, too, of pro-life patients who came to him seeking compassion. “I’m remembering a soft-spoken younger woman who felt that I, because I had delivered her other unplanned pregnancy, understood how pro-life she really was and that for this reason I was the person who could perform the procedure she needed now,” he said. Rather than a one-off, stories about anti-choice activists literally coming off the protest line to seek care were rife. That phenomenon may fade in states where clinics are shutting in the face of legal threats, but providers were confident hardcore activists will continue to seek their care.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-women-who-leave-anti-abortion-picket-lines-to-get-abortions Statistical results are buried under piles of forced birther propaganda on Google; go find them yourself if you need to be soothed. But forced birther women are big old hypocrites. |
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