January 20, 2007 11:11 AM
In the left's twisted logic, abortion-promoters create a "culture of life"
My friend Robin, who still lives in Marin County and heads the Pregnancy Resource Center in the midst of a culture where parents buy kids BMWs and campaign against dress codes and abstinence education sent me a link this morning to one of the most twisted pieces of liberal logic I've ever read (from the San Francisco Chronicle, quelle surprise) :
On the Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade
Creating a true 'culture of life'
- Lynn M. Paltrow
For the past 10 years, the term "culture of life" has been little more than window dressing for the hundreds of laws that limit access to abortion -- or advance the interests of fetuses, as if they existed separately from the pregnant women who carry them. The time has come to have a real conversation about what our country could be doing to support maternal, fetal and familial health, and to value motherhood and child rearing. . .Here's just one suggestion for how [lawmakers] could shift their priorities from creating ever greater barriers to abortion services to ensuring maternal and fetal health.
Our lawmakers pump an incredible amount of funding into pregnancy "crisis centers" whose primary purpose is to deter women from having abortions -- despite the fact that staff have been documented providing false and misleading information. [speaking of documentation, Ms. Paltrow, how about this documentation of Planned Parenthood abortion clinics aiding and abetting statutory rape?] At the same time, drug treatment programs for pregnant and parenting women in many parts of the United States lack the funding they need to stay open or to meet the pressing demands for their services. . .
What if our lawmakers swapped their priorities? What if they de-funded pregnancy crisis centers, whose only real purpose is to advance an ideological agenda, and acted to make drug treatment as readily available an option? If we come together, as a large, vocal and united constituency, we can advocate for policies that genuinely support maternal health and well being and create a true culture of life -- one that values the women who give that life.
Interested in the entire article? Read it here.
I had to laugh at the line describing pregnancy resource centers thus: "whose only real purpose is to advance an ideological agenda."
When you have the audacity to claim you are creating a culture of life by defending the deaths of a million and a half babies per year, you must be driven by something way beyond an ideological agenda.
Abortion advocates are truly religious fanatics protecting their sacred rite (abortion), their sacred priests (abortionists) and their sacred grounds (abortion clinics) with logic-defying religious jargon and rhetoric.
I know. I was there as a founding mother of the Second Wave of Feminism, who fought for abortion rights and participated in the sacred rite of passage - my own abortion in 1977. Thank God I eventually found my way out of this cult-like mentality and began thinking like an authentic human being who once was a "fetus" herself.
I continue to wonder how if liberals are so protective of "the little guy" they are so hardhearted when it comes to those most vulnerable and in need of our protection?
You can read more of my Pro-Life writing here. And look for pictures from the Blogs For Life and March for Life Monday night! See the ones I took last year here.
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Comments
I am so jealous you get to go to the Walk for Life! I've wanted to go for years and years! Walking with you in spirit!!!
Posted by: Marie | January 20, 2007 12:13 PM
Abortion advocates are truly religious fanatics protecting their sacred rite (abortion), their sacred priests (abortionists) and their sacred grounds (abortion clinics) with logic-defying religious jargon and rhetoric.
And they are totally being used. I think it's all about money. I'd be interested to read the $$ behind the abortion industry. If noone was making money, I doubt they would be as concerned with keeping everyone impassioned. It's the only angle they have. How else can you "sell" killing the unborn?
Posted by: whimsy | January 20, 2007 3:01 PM
This is such a classic move for abortion advocates. When they can't defend their position on the murder of children so they switch the focus to some other social ill. "Look, there are other people suffering and needing help -- why are you so focused on a fetus when there are other problems? You must not care about anyone once they are born!" How would they react if we were discussing how to help drug addicts and pro-lifers started arguing, "Hey how can you spend so much time and money worrying about drug addicts when there are babies dying? You don't care about anyone who isn't on drugs!" It would be obvious for the ploy that it is, because anyone can tell that just because you care about one issue doesn't mean you necessarily ignore all others!
Posted by: Michelle | January 20, 2007 3:34 PM
I know this wasn't the point of your post, but I just have to marvel at people who call their own babies in utero fetuses. I have had two people, including my cousin, announce their pregnancies to me by saying they are growing a fetus. The word makes me shudder - it's not a fetus, it's a baby. Sad.
Posted by: gwen | January 20, 2007 7:26 PM
Every one should be able to choose to use birth control, so they don't have to make another choice.
Posted by: ausblog | January 20, 2007 10:04 PM
