I was reading Reginald de Piperno yesterday about the “Liars at the door.” Later, I stumbled on an article in which Elizabeth Shipp, the political director for NARAL Pro-Choice America, was quoted as saying “If I didn’t know any better, I’d say Gov. Palin sounds remarkably pro-choice,” in response to remarks that Gov. Palin had made here in Indiana at a recent pro-life event. Gov. Palin had indicated that “for a fleeting moment” she had considered and then dismissed abortion when she discovered that her son Trig had a chromosomal abnormality.
As a human person, with human failings and human emotional conflicts, I would imagine that Gov. Palin probably did have abortion cross her mind. How could a woman in 21st century, post Roe v. Wade America not have it enter her consciousness, however briefly? To insinuate that this somehow makes her “pro-choice” is typical of the lying advocates of murder at the aforementioned organization. Which brings up an interesting point: anyone notice their shiny, new moniker? “NARAL Pro-Choice America.” I remember what NARAL stands for, because they used to be comfortable advertising it: the National Abortion Rights Action League. (They briefly flirted with the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, but apparently they realized that “reproductive rights” conjures up images of, well, reproduction, i.e., little babies. Little baby people. Little itty-bitty human people. Like the ones GE’s Voluson 4D ultrasound imaging medical device shows clearly. Just formless, lifeless cell masses, folks, nothing to see here, move along. It’s above our paygrade, anyway. Clearly it’s a matter of faith as to when human life begins. Oops! Dang! Ka-pow! As the GE video says at one point, “let your eyes decide.”) But I suppose focus-groups told them that the new name had more broad-based appeal. You know. The better to solicit funds from. (But they’re not about making money, folks, they’re about “protecting freedoms.” And I’m the greatest guitarist on the planet. No, really. Check out my vast array of studio work as a fill-in for Page, Clapton, Vaughan, and Beck. All me.)
What really gets me is crap like this:
In 1973, the Supreme Court guaranteed American women the right to choose abortion in its landmark decision Roe v. Wade. In Roe, the Court issued a compromise between the state’s ability to restrict abortion and a woman’s right to choose.
Some compromise! This is exactly like saying that income taxation is a compromise between the individual’s right to keep his earnings and the state’s desire to redistribute wealth. (If you don’t like taxes, don’t pay them. It’s voluntary.) Oh, but wait, noone is forced to “choose” abortion, Syzygus. No, that’s the difference. Perhaps. For now. But let’s see what happens when “universal healthcare” (an inevitability) is enacted, and bureaucratic ethicists are the ones informing the people who make decisions about “healthcare,” shall we? Let’s see: we’ve rescinded the Mexico City policy. We’ve lifted restrictions on federal funding of abortions and embryonic stem-cell research (despite the utter failure that avenue has proven to be, and in the face of the numerous successes of adult pluripotent stem-cell research, which does not destroy human life). Does anyone seriously believe, in the face of shrieking radicals like Katherine Hancock Ragsdale, that the status quo is even possible?
Then there’s this gem: “Even with Roe v. Wade’s protections still in place, 87 percent of U.S. counties have no abortion provider.” All because those “furiously working anti-choice” zealots are tirelessly trying to make abortion access impossible. Doesn’t have anything to do with most doctors realizing a fundamental disconnect between helping people, saving lives, providing good healthcare and the provision of abortion. No sir. Or ma’am. Or [insert term-of-choice for your transgendered status here].
And I like this one, too:
RU 486 should not be confused with emergency contraception, also known as the “morning-after” pill, which is a basic form of birth control that prevents pregnancy and does not cause abortion.
Howler! Mifepristone is RU-486, and mifepristone is also a “morning after pill.” But they’re not the same; you see, one acts an abortifacient, and the other (same) thing doesn’t. (Of course, either way, a conceived human person is prevented from being allowed to have its rights of choice, etc., but what are you, some kind of extremist?)
Liars.
3 Comments
April 21, 2009 at 2:33 pm
I totally agree, it is from the pit of hell the level of lies and misinformation being spread here.
This is why the Pro-Life side has won, because science itself has vindicated us. There is no worse enemy for darkness than the Light, and it is so bright that these pro abortion demons have to hide. Nothing scares the pro-death side more than images of tiny humans, because you can’t lie to yourself when you see it. You can’t tell someone a formed body is a blob of tissue. That’s why the media wont show those pictures, because the average joe (esp women) thinks this is about ‘rights’, but would be HORRIFIED to see it’s about humans getting killed. It’s the same reason why hitler had the death camps out in the middle of nowhere, because the average German was not a Nazi and would have been horrified to see such treatment.
April 21, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Excellent point, Nick. I just watched a show about women (mostly Hungarian Jews) who had been sent to Auschwitz. They were surprised to find they had been taken to Poland after a 3 day train ride, having been told they would be going to Germany for forced labor. I remember stories my great uncles passed on after having been to some of the sites and even they were astonished at the extent to which the Nazis went, and that’s what they signed up to fight! They mentioned that some Germans who saw newsreel footage were literally sick to their stomachs upon realizing what had happened.
I just finished reading Martin Cruz Smith’s latest Arkady Renko novel, “Stalin’s Ghost,” which has as a subplot the mass graves of Polish military personnel executed by the Stalinists. This, too, should have horrified the left, but since they were allied with them in the fight against the Axis, the terrors of Stalin (numerically greater than Hitler’s) remain largely unknown. For some reason, Imperial Japan’s atrocities against almost everyone they came into contact with also remain a footnote.
Of course, we Westerners have our own demons to face. But surely the inconceivable hideousness of abortion dwarfs them all.
May 3, 2009 at 3:47 pm
How could a woman in 21st century, post Roe v. Wade America not have it enter her consciousness, however briefly?
Just so. It’s called “temptation.” To have a wicked, selfish thought occur to us does not mean that we endorse the action implied by the thought. It wouldn’t be a temptation at all if it were not in some way appealing to us. It means we ought to pray for grace to be holy and to do what is right.
–RdP