Posted on 07/11/2011 12:23:53 PM PDT by EricTheRed_VocalMinority
Did you ever see that bumper sticker that says, "Don't like abortion? Don't have one!"
Think of the inanity of that statement. The premise, of course, is that to murder an innocent living human being simply because it doesn't exist outside the womb is a "choice." To the pro-abortion crowd, choosing whether or not to have an abortion is no different than whether or not to see a movie or whether or not to purchase an iPhone. Don't like a certain movie? Don't see it! Don't want an iPhone? Don't buy one! What logically follows, they believe, is: Don't like abortion? Don't have one! It's simply a personal choice (that five lawyers in black robes one day decided was a constitutional right) and no one has the authority to "force" a woman what to do with an unborn child.
But the main difference is that unlike seeing a movie or buying a piece of electronics is that there is no destruction of an innocent tiny human being taking place. In fact, when those who are pro-abortion argue their position, the baby is the farthest thing from their mind, if it enters their mind at all. The baby necessarily doesn't factor in; it's just a dispensible clump of cells until the very second every inch of her body enters the world.
Not only does the pro-abortion crowd willfully ignore the inhumane gruesomeness of an abortion -- if you don't think it is willful, consider the hellstorm that ensues every time someone suggests young people actually be shown footage of an abortion being performed -- but they (also willingly) mischaraterize the position of the anti-abortion position. They would have us believe that those who are anti-abortion are actually anti-woman; i.e., they want to control women in general and impose their rigid traditionalist "patriarchical" views on them.
This is why those against abortion are also often called "anti-choice": such people supposedly don't want women to be able to make any choices for themselves, beginning with abortion.
While these descriptions might be politically advantageous, they are wholly inaccurate. If people who were anti-abortion were anti-woman or anti-choice, why is there no other area in which such people seek to restrict women's behavior? Where are those anti-choice types who are trting restrict a woman's choice on having a career or "staying in the kitchen," for example? Who is attempting to prevent women's freedom of speech, assembly, etc.?
There aren't any. But when those who are pro-abortion call their opponents "anti-choice," that is the message they are trying to convey. I must say that when a pro-abortion liberal calls an anti-abortion conservative anti-choice, it makes my skin crawl. Conservatives are not anti-choice, we're just anti-abortion. And for good reason.
My purpose in bringing this all up was to try to give liberals a taste of their own medicine. Because if there is any group of people in this country that is truly anti-choice, it is the American liberal/Democrat. What if we took that abortion bumper sticker and fashioned it to defend conservative positions:
Don't like guns? Don't get one!
But liberals/Democrats generally hate guns, and because it is they who are truly anti-choice, they have done everything in their power, including ignore the Constitution, to prevent law abiding citizens from owning guns.
How about these:
Don't like SUV's? Don't drive one!
Don't like incandescent light bulbs? Don't use them!
But most of the liberal/Democrat left are devout practitioners of the religion of environ-mental-ism. And while constantly decrying the creeping theocracy allegedly being foisted upon the American people by the "religious Christian right," the religious environ-mental-ist left gleefully foists upon us their religion. Thus, it's not enough for them merely to dislike certain types of cars, the incandescent light bulb, coal-powered electricity, toilets with enough water in them to actually flush correctly, (and if you live in California, the plasma T.V.!). Having bought into the hoax of man-made global warming climate change, the anti-choice left has succeeded in or is attempting to ban the afformentioned items, which allegedly contribute to it.
This one is for all the liberal/Democrat food fascists out there:
Don't like trans-fats / salt / sugar / soda / Happy Meals? Don't consume them!
Yet in cities like San Fran and NYC nanny state busybodies have not only made it a point to avoid these items, but they have made it illegal for you to decide whether or not to eat them. On food, these liberals/Democrats are anti-choice. They clearly never thought that what you eat is a "personal choice between you, your partner, and your doctor" like a certain other thing ...
And speaking of NYC, here's one more:
Don't like cigarettes? Don't smoke them!
O.K., I know what you're thinking. Smoking pollutes the air and make it uncomfortable for people around them to breathe. Fair enough. That's what smoking an non-smoking sections of restaurants used to be for. That's what outside is for. In other words, there are plenty of places where smokers can engage in their disgusting habit without disturbing others who want clean air.
But in many places around the country, all public establishments and even outside venues like parks are non-smoking. Even bars, where smoking is to be expected and tolerated? Yes, even bars. Even cigar clubs, whose raison d'être is to be a place where people come to ... um ... smoke? Yup. Some states even ban people from smoking in their own homes and cars if there are children close by.
On smoking, liberals are vehemently anti-choice. Restaurant and bar owners don't even have the choice whether or not to allow smoking in their establishments, if that's what their clientele prefers. The anti-choice left has made that decision for them.
There are plenty more examples out there but I think you get the point: When it comes to being anti-choice, liberals/Democrats beat conservatives/Republicans hands down. Want to choose your food, your toilet, your light bulb, your car, whether or not to bear arms or a place to smoke? To the anti-choice left the answer is: "Oh no, you don't. Those things are (or should be) illegal! / prohibited! / banned!"
But suggest that there shouldn't be abortions and these very same people will rise up with their stupid clothes hanger in hand and shout, "How dare you impose your views on others, you fundamentalist anti-choice zealot! Then they'll drive away in their tin can of a hybrid car with a bumper sticker on the back that reads, "Don't like abortion? Don't have one!"
You think they'll ever stop being blinded by their own sense of self-righteousness to notice their blatant hypocrisy?
Don’t like logic? Don’t use it.
“Don’t like slavery? Don’t own one!”
Seems the best analogy to me.
Modern Liberals are anti-chhoice on everything. To them, everything must be either forbidden or required. Satanic.
Bookmark.
But I also like "Don't like murder? Don't commit one". Or: "Don't like hospital food? Stay out of my face"
It is good to see that some people follow their own advice.
The analogy is more apt than most people realize. Susan B. Anthony was an Abolitionist who was opposed to infant murder. I recall reading an article that after Slavery was abolished, the abolitionist movement turned it's attention to the practice of abortion and got laws passed throughout the nation prohibiting the practice. I distinctly recall reading an excerpt from the New York Times advocating laws to ban abortion. Amazing how times have changed.
IF the woman chooses to have an abortion, THE LAW denies the father any say in the matter.
But IF the woman chooses to have the baby, THE LAW says the father is responsible for child support.
In liberal land, that's called "social justice."
You know if we were talking sucide and someone raclly did not want to live I’d probably be sad but it would be their choice but sicne the life they are ending isn’t their’s to take there lies the problem.Liberals do not like this pointed out to them at all!
You know if we were talking sucide and someone really did not want to live I’d probably be sad but it would be their choice but sicne the life they are ending isn’t their’s to take there lies the problem.Liberals do not like this pointed out to them at all!
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