Meme in question: “No one is ‘pro-abortion.’”

Bullshit.

There are plenty of people out there who are enthusiastically pro-abortion. Here, for instance, is the blogger ‘po boy:

“I am pro-abortion. Not pro-choice. Pro-abortion. I think this is an important distinction because I hear some pro-choicers say they support the right of a woman to choose, but they would never want to have or would want their lover/girlfriend/wife to have an abortion.

“I don’t get that. I can’t say I support the right for a woman to get an abortion and then say abortion is bad. Abortion is good. When a woman evaluates where she is in the universe and decides that she should have an abortion, she is doing the right thing. And she is doing a good thing.”

Here’s the commenter Jara Sang, on the Democratic Underground blog:

“I am pro abortion. Bush should have been aborted. The man is a cancer on this planet.”

This is a YouTube contribution from someone called “Dykeborn.” The title of the video? “I Am PRO-ABORTION:”

Writer Diana Blaine, Ph.D., writes, “I am not pro-choice; I am pro-abortion:”

“I’ve got to wonder what role models young women have that let them know they aren’t moral cripples if they make the wonderful life affirming decision to abort an unwanted pregnancy.”

Jenn, who blogs under the name XXBlaze, writes:

“So here it is, for everyone who cares to know: I’m Pro-Abortion. I don’t dress my opinions up with fancy terms like “pro-choice” to distance my stance from the fact that I am supporting the systematic termination of a pregnancy that will result in the “death” of a fetus, embryo, fertilized egg, or a sack of cells that might be a human depending on your political agenda.”

Zoe, at Shameless, the magazine for “girls who get it,” writes:

“I am not just pro-choice. I am pro-abortion.”

Amanda Hess, writing in the Washington City Paper, says:

“Abortion is not wrong. And a woman’s personal, emotional reaction to her abortion isn’t wrong either.”

Lagusta is the invented name of the blogger at lagusta.com. She describes herself as a vegan chef in New Palz, NY, and she is unashamedly pro-abortion:

“Whereas I really hate it when conservatives say that pro-choice people are pro-abortion, I have to admit that I am actually pro-abortion. Please, have an abortion. Naturally, not getting knocked up in the first place is the best option, but if you do, please get an abortion. Because I just can’t bear the thought of any more women having any more damn kids … I am thankful for abortions, because the last thing we need in this hideous world is more babies … I would not admit it in mixed company (luckily, I have organized my life so that I am never in “mixed company,”) … “

The last word goes to the anonymous blogger at the site, Violent Acres. She writes:

“I am pro abortion simply because sometimes death is more merciful than life. What good is bringing an unwanted child into the world so it can lead a miserable, desolate, pointless life?

“Give me death. Sweet, sweet merciful baby death and lots of them.

“Every time a baby dies in the womb, I sleep a little easier that night.”

So, I could keep going, but I’m getting a bit sick to my stomach. And besides, you get the idea. There are plenty of people who are pro-abortion, and many others who are but just won’t admit it in what Lagusta calls “mixed company.” And, you’ll notice, most of those cited above, as well as those I didn’t include, are women. So, can we please just drop the “no one is pro-abortion” meme? It was an insult to our intelligence from the start.

MG

This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 at 6:35 pm and is filed under Abortion, Social Pathologies. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.