Ahhh the wordsmith and the mounting hysteria from dear Jezebel. Thanks for the shout out for TN.
"Not to be overshadowed once again by its taller, skinnier sister
Mississippi or its more popular cousin Ohio, Tennessee is reminding the
rest of America that it, too, can suck with the best of them.
Supporters of the word jambalaya of a constitutional amendment, called
SJR 127, say that it will simply give lawmakers the power they require
to appropriately regulate abortions. Detractors call bullshit, saying it
opens the door for an abortion ban and allows Tennessee politicians to
crawl up in everyone's uterus and have a look around. Pro lifers are,
predictably, overjoyed."
Now what has her so upset? The audacity that the TN voters will have the opportunity in 2014 to vote on whether their elected legislators, answerable to the public will have the right to put restrictions around abortion such as informed consent, waiting periods, and late term abortions done in hospitals . What? Isn't that already in place?
History lesson....it was.
These restrictions were voted into place by the bipartisan elected legislators. But then what do they know?? Enter the ACLU and Planned Parenthood who never met an abortion they did not like. They decided that the liberal judges on the state supreme court might friend them and friend them they did. So the ACLU and PP sued saying that any restrictions around their fave action....abortion ...might be an undue burden on the woman and their guess was right...the judges agreed.!
They said that the state constitution written in the 1800's held a right to abortion in TN. Out with the regulations.... but the public spoke again through their elected bi partisan legislators and said that the people of TN deserved a say so here. Now amending the constitution is a laborious project and many friends of the abortion industry fought against this coming up for a vote in the state legislature. But persistence pays off and a funny thing happened to those die hards. They were voted out of office or had a swift conversion experience.
So yes, Jezebel has heard the alarm from PP and ACLU.....yikes if the people vote...could it be??
Better get innuendo and razz matazz going here speaking in lofty terms like "bullshit" and calling names...whatever!!
We can't let things such as informed consent happen in TN. Imagine, just imagine, if women knew facts and then considered them....imagine if late term abortions were only done in hospitals? Oh the sound of silence in those cash registers at PP??
FOTAI ......Friends of the Abortion Industry....you must stand with us.
JEZEBEL WHERE ARE YOU?
pix from Jezebel
One of my Facebook friends posted a pic of her ultrasound. It's a girl! Congratulations! What a beautiful clump of cells!!
But Jezebel finds the viewing of an ultrasound so outrageous that she wrote a column about it. What is wrong with women being fully informed of the developing life in the womb? PA has become the 7th state to mandate that women seeking abortions be given the opportunity to view their "products of conception" or " just clump of cells" prior to having an abortion. Not required....just the opportunity!! Shriek!!!
"Position the screen so that the patient is able to view the ultrasound
test in its entirety, with a view of her unborn child, while that test
is being conducted to determine gestational age... [However] the patient
is not required to view the screen."
She further is incensed that a copy of the ultrasound is offered to the women. Whatever happened to "Trust Women." Maybe that should be Trust Uninformed Women Only!! What do the abortion friendlies have against informed consent.
"What I find profoundly insulting is that these men and women on this
bill think their own voters, who they assume are smart enough to vote
for them, can't figure out what their own pregnancies are about and are
too stupid…or evil to handle it themselves ... If they can't handle
their own pregnancies, certainly they're not qualified to vote for these
people who are on this bill, and they should never vote for any of
them."
Do you get her twisted logic? Anything that slows down abortion by allowing the women to consider the FACTS of what they are doing is forbidden??
Jezebel is trying to figure out a slogan to fit on the back of a bumper sticker outlining her objections to this bill.
How about.....Abortion kills a baby....your baby.
What a wonderful way to start the day....a cup of coffee and reading an interview in a Jezebel column that is not an angry propaganda piece for the abortion industry.
Jezebel features a column by Gaby Dunn, writer, journalist and comedian in New York City. The title is Talking to an Abortion Clinic Protester. Her first sentence hooked me. She started by saying she fundamentally disagreed with the young lady, Sarina Duvall , but liked her very much. Gaby was doing a series called 100 Interviews, and found Sarina on Facebook, messaged her and asked to interview her.
What took place turned out to be a great conversation between a pro choice interviewer and a pro life activist. Very uplifting and if you ever did sidewalk counseling (it is not accurate IMHO to call it protesting as those are two different activities) ...this young lady has demonstrated knowledge and maturity.
She is able to articulate the issue quite well and having the interviewer describe her as warm and friendly is quite a compliment. Sarina has street cred too. She had a rough beginning in life, made some bad choices herself, but understands that reaching out in love is key at this critical time. Interesting side note is that her own mother was conceived as a result of gang rape; her mother almost aborted her to the point of being on the table when she changed her mind. Wow, two generations almost lost. Her mom later did have an abortion when the doctor told her the baby girl she was carrying had serious defects.
"One [sign] said, ‘Babies Are Killed Here.' I don't disagree with the
statement, but I don't know how warm and Christlike that is," Sarina
purses her lips. "I just think you can be less vulgar. Jesus wouldn't
put a sign in their face and say ‘Baby killer!'" She prefers to emulate a
man, "he's maybe around 86 years old, and he goes out there every day
and just loves on these people. So many women have decided not to just
because someone said, ‘Someone loves you.'"
But she thinks it's
okay to have more graphic images in the pamphlets. "It's just education.
A lot of women go in and don't know what the doctor is doing...There's
the saying, ‘If the womb had a window, no one would get an abortion."
For being 24, Sarina is quite mature. I am
impressed. She understands that someone entering the abortion clinic is
already hurting and confronting them with hostility and anger is
not the key. The interviewer mildly chides her for not giving a good answer to the question about the feminist viewpoint but I think her answer was spot on.
"I don't really get a clear answer out of her when I talk about abortion
as a feminist issue. She indicates that she finds that concept to be a
misdirection, when it should be about the children."
Exactly....what about the children? I strongly suspect that Sarina planted a few seeds with the interviewer and the readers. I am so glad to have someone like Sarina out there. May we all learn to give a reasonable defense of life with love not anger.
photo: via Jezebel
Kevin Burke in National Review.com writes about Steven Tyler's post abortion feelings as told in his own book....Walk this way....
“So they had the abortion, and it really messed Steven up because it
was a boy. He… saw the whole thing and it [messed] him up big time.”
"Tyler
also reflects on his abortion experience in the autobiography. “It was a
big crisis. It’s a major thing when you’re growing something with a
woman, but they convinced us that it would never work out and would ruin
our lives…. You go to the doctor and they put the needle in her belly
and they squeeze the stuff in and you watch. And it comes out dead. I
was pretty devastated. In my mind, I’m going, Jesus, what have I done?”
Eeegads! Jezebel is incensed because don't you know that there is no such thing as post abortion trauma??And after all he was sorry because the baby he just agreed to abort was a boy?? If it were a girl would it matter as much ? Then he has the audacity to say that later in life when his wife got pregnant he worried about the baby and expressed remorse over his past behavior. Man how the abortion advocates hate these personal stories...don't they realize that the industry needs them in lock step? They don't want judgments but as they end their little tirade they do not hesitate to pass their own judgment.
"a young, cheated-on teenager dating a drug addict and using drugs herself, and
say she would have been better off pregnant and a mother."
Nope, abortion was the remedy and the correct one at that per Jezebel and let's not talk about remorse...please. Judgments anyone?? This man is speaking of his personal experience with abortion and not some theoretical viewpoint...but they cannot stand it. One commenter says...
"Maybe he was on a hallucinogen at the time? Maybe it was metaphorical?"
No, maybe it was his personal experience and it just does not line up with your agenda.
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Jezebel joins the others in the abortion industry trying to salvage what they can from a PR disaster of a week when the grisly details of Gosnell's "House of Horrors" became media fodder. They have to justify what they do and this doc dares to say it ....we kill at the mother's request ....and this should be through all stages of pregnancy . We just have to do it cleaner and safer for the woman. We are not to judge why she presents in the later part of her pregnancy with a viable infant.We perform. Such nasty work but someone has to do it. So I ask, what of the woman who presents with a toddler she cannot parent anymore. Should we kill the toddler to achieve her preferences and make her life better. After all the only difference between the toddler and her baby is size, level of development, environment and degree of dependence.
"...What I do know is that women who do seek later abortions, no matter how uncomfortable they make us, deserve nothing less than access to compassionate, respectful, quality medical care. If we don't want these women to be hurt or worse, killed by amateur doctors willing to break the law, we need to give them legal options to terminate their pregnancies.The only answer that makes sense to me, that corresponds to my value of reproductive justice, is to demand better access to safe abortion, as late in the pregnancy as necessary."
