Official Abortion Thread

[Anonymous]

The influence of Planned Parenthood.......

Before Colorado's Secretary of State put out a news release calling for a boycott of Alabama over the state's new abortion ban, her office sent the news release to Planned Parenthood for suggestions and edits.

On Thursday, Secretary of State Jena Griswold (D) announced she was restricting employee travel to Alabama in response to a strict abortion ban signed into law last week.

About two hours before the news release was sent out, Griswold's communications director, Serena Woods, emailed the draft news release to Whitney Phillips and Jack Teter. Phillips is the vice president of communications for Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains and Teter is Planned Parenthood's political director.

When asked if it was appropriate for Planned Parenthood to provide editorial feedback on a news release from the Secretary of State's Office, Phillips wrote in a text message, "Yes of course. PP (Planned Parenthood) provides messaging guidance around abortion. That is our job as reproductive health experts."

The existence of the emails between the Secretary of State's Office and Planned Parenthood was discovered by former Deputy Secretary of State Suzanne Staiert.

"There was some social media postings from people in the office about having been asked to do things that were unethical or things that they weren't comfortable with, I did the (open records request), actually, to find out, were there talking points that were passed out to employees asking them to defend this position," she said.

Staiert served under former Republican Secretary of State Wayne Williams.

"Fundamentally, people expect that office in particular to be non-partisan, and she ran on a platform that she was going to be non-partisan," Staiert said. "And the reason it's so important is because they regulate elections. They regulate campaign finance. They regulate lobbyists, and now they're working directly and taking orders, basically, from a lobbyist group."

9NEWS has since obtained the same email records. They mainly include correspondence between the Secretary of State's Office and media members following the Alabama boycott news release. Among the 25 pages of documents is the communication with Planned Parenthood.

"Whether you agree with Planned Parenthood's platform or not, I think we can all agree that we should not have our policies in the state dictated to us by special interest groups and lobbying organizations," Staiert said. "I don't think it's appropriate. I don't think it's ethical. I think it's wrong."

https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/next/colorado-secretary-of-states-office-asks-planned-parenthood-for-edits-on-news-release/73-ed6a8cfc-8da1-480e-ac7c-7a661bbbd91e

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I found this discussion on how Jews view the soul and fetuses to be interesting.

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-fetus-in-jewish-law/



And this

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/church-stance-o...ed-over-time-1.554478?mode=amp

Thank you. This gives a very interesting religious and historical perspective.

[Anonymous]

Good bye abortion. America is finally willing to start protecting the unborn. Praise Jesus

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good bye abortion. America is finally willing to start protecting the unborn. Praise Jesus

Abortion isn't leaving. It's going to the back alley where it was before.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good bye abortion. America is finally willing to start protecting the unborn. Praise Jesus

And then once they’re born let ‘em starve or grow up in poverty and amid gun violence in their neighborhood and at school because their parents are lazy takers, not makers and should work harder to be able to afford living in a decent district. Not the taxpayers’ problem. Praise Jesus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good bye abortion. America is finally willing to start protecting the unborn. Praise Jesus

Jesus came to me in a vision and told me you’re the worst kind of hypocrite. True story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good bye abortion. America is finally willing to start protecting the unborn. Praise Jesus

Jesus came to me in a vision and told me you’re the worst kind of hypocrite. True story.

Hallelujah.

[Anonymous]

My mom accidentally got pregnant with me her senior year of high school. She said she remembers sitting at her high school graduation, knowing she was, and trying to figure out how she was going to do it. Her own mom was a single mother and wouldn’t be able to help much. She and my dad moved into a tiny apartment in a crappy area and she got a job. He struggled with addiction and she had to leave him when I was a toddler. Fast forward a few decades, I’m a successful college-educated adult, happily married with children.
I was overcome with emotion the other day because it hit me that she could have so easily just had an abortion like it was nothing.
I and my children would be lost to oblivion.
I called her to ask if she’d considered it and she said not for a second. I thanked her for taking the hard road and giving me life.
She cried and said while there were some hard days where the future was uncertain, she never once regretted it, I was her purpose in life and now she has beautiful grandbabies that she loves to pieces.
I don’t know why I wanted to share this here, but I guess I had never considered that a different choice could have been made and I wouldn’t be here today. And I’m so grateful that I am.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My mom accidentally got pregnant with me her senior year of high school. She said she remembers sitting at her high school graduation, knowing she was, and trying to figure out how she was going to do it. Her own mom was a single mother and wouldn’t be able to help much. She and my dad moved into a tiny apartment in a crappy area and she got a job. He struggled with addiction and she had to leave him when I was a toddler. Fast forward a few decades, I’m a successful college-educated adult, happily married with children.
I was overcome with emotion the other day because it hit me that she could have so easily just had an abortion like it was nothing.
I and my children would be lost to oblivion.
I called her to ask if she’d considered it and she said not for a second. I thanked her for taking the hard road and giving me life.
She cried and said while there were some hard days where the future was uncertain, she never once regretted it, I was her purpose in life and now she has beautiful grandbabies that she loves to pieces.
I don’t know why I wanted to share this here, but I guess I had never considered that a different choice could have been made and I wouldn’t be here today. And I’m so grateful that I am.

How was your mom’s life? Did she ever go to college or become happily married? Did she struggle at all? Shouldn’t the quality of her life be another consideration when evaluating her choice? Not just your quality of life.

[Anonymous]

I know a woman whose three children wouldn’t be here if she hadn’t been allowed to have an abortion at age 20, finish her degree, meet her future husband her senior year.

I have an aunt who was forced to give away her baby at age 18 and it traumatized her so much she never had any more kids, even though she eventually married. She passed away a few years ago never having known what happened to the baby, no grandkids.

So it goes both ways.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My mom accidentally got pregnant with me her senior year of high school. She said she remembers sitting at her high school graduation, knowing she was, and trying to figure out how she was going to do it. Her own mom was a single mother and wouldn’t be able to help much. She and my dad moved into a tiny apartment in a crappy area and she got a job. He struggled with addiction and she had to leave him when I was a toddler. Fast forward a few decades, I’m a successful college-educated adult, happily married with children.
I was overcome with emotion the other day because it hit me that she could have so easily just had an abortion like it was nothing.
I and my children would be lost to oblivion.
I called her to ask if she’d considered it and she said not for a second. I thanked her for taking the hard road and giving me life.
She cried and said while there were some hard days where the future was uncertain, she never once regretted it, I was her purpose in life and now she has beautiful grandbabies that she loves to pieces.
I don’t know why I wanted to share this here, but I guess I had never considered that a different choice could have been made and I wouldn’t be here today. And I’m so grateful that I am.

Thanks for posting this touching story, pp. There are so many more like yours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My mom accidentally got pregnant with me her senior year of high school. She said she remembers sitting at her high school graduation, knowing she was, and trying to figure out how she was going to do it. Her own mom was a single mother and wouldn’t be able to help much. She and my dad moved into a tiny apartment in a crappy area and she got a job. He struggled with addiction and she had to leave him when I was a toddler. Fast forward a few decades, I’m a successful college-educated adult, happily married with children.
I was overcome with emotion the other day because it hit me that she could have so easily just had an abortion like it was nothing.
I and my children would be lost to oblivion.
I called her to ask if she’d considered it and she said not for a second. I thanked her for taking the hard road and giving me life.
She cried and said while there were some hard days where the future was uncertain, she never once regretted it, I was her purpose in life and now she has beautiful grandbabies that she loves to pieces.
I don’t know why I wanted to share this here, but I guess I had never considered that a different choice could have been made and I wouldn’t be here today. And I’m so grateful that I am.

Thanks for posting this touching story, pp. There are so many more like yours.

And no one wants to force women in these situations to have abortions if they don’t want them. We just want to keep it available for the women who don’t want to be pregnant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My mom accidentally got pregnant with me her senior year of high school. She said she remembers sitting at her high school graduation, knowing she was, and trying to figure out how she was going to do it. Her own mom was a single mother and wouldn’t be able to help much. She and my dad moved into a tiny apartment in a crappy area and she got a job. He struggled with addiction and she had to leave him when I was a toddler. Fast forward a few decades, I’m a successful college-educated adult, happily married with children.
I was overcome with emotion the other day because it hit me that she could have so easily just had an abortion like it was nothing.
I and my children would be lost to oblivion.
I called her to ask if she’d considered it and she said not for a second. I thanked her for taking the hard road and giving me life.
She cried and said while there were some hard days where the future was uncertain, she never once regretted it, I was her purpose in life and now she has beautiful grandbabies that she loves to pieces.
I don’t know why I wanted to share this here, but I guess I had never considered that a different choice could have been made and I wouldn’t be here today. And I’m so grateful that I am.

How was your mom’s life? Did she ever go to college or become happily married? Did she struggle at all? Shouldn’t the quality of her life be another consideration when evaluating her choice? Not just your quality of life.

That’s why I called to thank her for going through the struggle she did to give me life. So we lived in a crappy apartment in a crappy neighborhood and she took the bus to her retail job while I was at a home daycare, she met my stepdad and got married and we moved to a small house in a slightly better neighborhood, she started her own home daycare, had my siblings, eventually moved again to a better neighborhood. She is very happy with her life choices. They were full of selflessness and love. She considers her life to be of great quality, even when it was a struggle. She’s a strong and proud woman now and doesn’t dream of a different life where she made different choices.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My mom accidentally got pregnant with me her senior year of high school. She said she remembers sitting at her high school graduation, knowing she was, and trying to figure out how she was going to do it. Her own mom was a single mother and wouldn’t be able to help much. She and my dad moved into a tiny apartment in a crappy area and she got a job. He struggled with addiction and she had to leave him when I was a toddler. Fast forward a few decades, I’m a successful college-educated adult, happily married with children.
I was overcome with emotion the other day because it hit me that she could have so easily just had an abortion like it was nothing.
I and my children would be lost to oblivion.
I called her to ask if she’d considered it and she said not for a second. I thanked her for taking the hard road and giving me life.
She cried and said while there were some hard days where the future was uncertain, she never once regretted it, I was her purpose in life and now she has beautiful grandbabies that she loves to pieces.
I don’t know why I wanted to share this here, but I guess I had never considered that a different choice could have been made and I wouldn’t be here today. And I’m so grateful that I am.

Thanks for posting this touching story, pp. There are so many more like yours.

And no one wants to force women in these situations to have abortions if they don’t want them. We just want to keep it available for the women who don’t want to be pregnant.

Right... Legal, safe, and rare.
And, then we have the women who cheer the idea of killing the unborn. Absolutely gleeful that they had an abortion. #SoProud

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My mom accidentally got pregnant with me her senior year of high school. She said she remembers sitting at her high school graduation, knowing she was, and trying to figure out how she was going to do it. Her own mom was a single mother and wouldn’t be able to help much. She and my dad moved into a tiny apartment in a crappy area and she got a job. He struggled with addiction and she had to leave him when I was a toddler. Fast forward a few decades, I’m a successful college-educated adult, happily married with children.
I was overcome with emotion the other day because it hit me that she could have so easily just had an abortion like it was nothing.
I and my children would be lost to oblivion.
I called her to ask if she’d considered it and she said not for a second. I thanked her for taking the hard road and giving me life.
She cried and said while there were some hard days where the future was uncertain, she never once regretted it, I was her purpose in life and now she has beautiful grandbabies that she loves to pieces.
I don’t know why I wanted to share this here, but I guess I had never considered that a different choice could have been made and I wouldn’t be here today. And I’m so grateful that I am.

How was your mom’s life? Did she ever go to college or become happily married? Did she struggle at all? Shouldn’t the quality of her life be another consideration when evaluating her choice? Not just your quality of life.

That’s why I called to thank her for going through the struggle she did to give me life. So we lived in a crappy apartment in a crappy neighborhood and she took the bus to her retail job while I was at a home daycare, she met my stepdad and got married and we moved to a small house in a slightly better neighborhood, she started her own home daycare, had my siblings, eventually moved again to a better neighborhood. She is very happy with her life choices. They were full of selflessness and love. She considers her life to be of great quality, even when it was a struggle. She’s a strong and proud woman now and doesn’t dream of a different life where she made different choices.

Funny how you didn’t really acknowledge that - just “fast forwarded” to your own quality of life.