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Q: Post In the Pro-life Forum
asked by: Moo on February 26th, 2006
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For any pro-lifers reading i'm not opening this up for debate - hence being posted on the pro-choice board

so, I noticed a thread over there about 'what is pro-life'. It's the usual, anti-abortion, anti-euthanasia and anti-embryo research blah blah blah
few things primarily that popped up for me
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the so called "pro-choice" movement is in fact in favour of only one choice, ie abortion. For example, a woman who telephones the "british pregnancy advisory service (sic)" looking for help with a crisis pregnancy will not be given any help or advice. They only deal in abortions, performing over a quarter of all uk abortions. They will not even refer the woman to pro-life organisations such as life. So much for choice!


well, i'm in the uk and this seems to be a favourite of pro-lifers. They fail to note that the bpas abortion care (as it's called) never refers to themselevs as an advisory service. The initials no longer stand for "british pregnancy advisory service", they simply haven't changed the letters because they have been a registered charity under that name for decades.
If a woman is going to a bpas clinic then she's made her choice. Everyone knows it's an abortion provider. Get over it!!!

I'm not even going to think about the edit provided about the abortion act - people seem to claim certain things about it yet never have any evidence.


This was what really made me think though
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non-violence
we are opposed to violence in any form. There are admittedly a fewgroups that believe that violence is part of the pro-life struggle, however this is a totally contradictory view to hold. These groups therefore are not and can not be considered to be "pro-life".


erm...Is she/he implying that pro-choicers advocate violence?? If not then why bring it up?
Seriously, it's this kind of self-dilusional superiority which makes pro-life uncredible imo
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replied on February 26th, 2006
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i am sickened that women in this country don't care about their reproductive freedoms and choices. So many are blinded by abortion that they forget reproductive rights are more than just the right to end an unwanted/unplanned/doomed pregnancy. It is also about family planning, birth plans, family raising choices, etc. I wonder what it will take for the anti choice side to understand that?


i totally agree. And what bothers me is that a lot of people don't understand that many make the choice to be "pro-choice" for that reason, alone. T.H.E. C.H.O.I.C.E!!!!! For some people, being prochoice has nothing to do with abortion and all the facts of it. It's simply that they're against anyone being able to tell someone what to do with their uterus. Being told you're not allowed to have an abortion is no different than being told by a doctor that you can't have a hysterectomy, you can't have your tonsils out, etc. As much as jimmyjackers intellectual extraordinaire wants to believe that abortion is not a medical procedure, the truth is that it indeed is a medical procedure and should be provided and treated as such.
The state where I live (i had to go out of state to get my abortion because there's only 5 abortion clinics in this entire state and none of them are anywhere near me) is currently introducing all sorts of bills to put tighter restrictions on the clinics that allow abortions. But... Not on any clinic that provides surgical procedures, only on the ones that provide abortions. And... Not e.V.E.R.Y surgical procedures, only a.B.O.R.T.I.O.N surgical procedures. It's so hypocritical and disappointing. There was an article in the paper a few weeks back grading each individual state on reproductive rights for women and mine got a d-. The majority of the us states received grades of a c or below. It's just absolutely ridiculous that people don't se ehow much the government controls our lives. And i'm sickened at myself to think that I used to be (just a short time ago!!) a hardcore republican pro-lifer!!!!! Lol

wow. Sorry I got so off topic. =)
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