Posted on 03/05/2020 8:54:03 PM PST by Morgana
While we often hear the claim from abortion advocates, “No one likes abortion,” a new hashtag spreading across Twitter is proving that claim completely wrong. Activists are stepping forward to celebrate abortion using the #AbortionIsLove hashtag, discussing the ways they believe abortion is great for women, families, and the world.
Many Twitter users are arguing that abortion somehow shows love for children, families, communities, and even the preborn children who are killed in abortions. It should surprise no one that this argument is being made by numerous abortionists.
But does anyone truly believe that killing a preborn human being is a loving act? Is it loving for the preborn children killed, or for the siblings left to grieve once they learn the truth, or for the families left with a permanent hole in them? Is it loving for communities around the world? Is abortion love for preborn children?
The most baffling argument of the #AbortionIsLove hashtag is that somehow, abortion is “dignified” for the children who are killed during the procedures. In no other circumstance would the violent death of a vulnerable human being at the hands of someone stronger be considered “dignified.” Yet that is what these abortion activists are, in essence, saying. Abortion involves subjecting a human being to horrific violence at a time when they almost certainly feel pain, according to the most recent research. A first trimester abortion shreds apart the body of a preborn baby with powerful suction. In a second trimester abortion, the abortionist must use a special tool to grasp on to the child’s arms and legs and tear them away from the child’s torso.
Is abortion love for siblings?
It’s incredibly common for abortion-minded women to already be parents, and in a way, it’s even more understandable; these are women who are, in many cases, already struggling to survive financially and provide for their children. An unexpected pregnancy leaves them terrified, thinking there is no way to provide for another child while taking care of their born children. Leaving aside the fact that there are resources to help these desperate mothers, does this make abortion under these circumstances an “act of love” for the surviving siblings? No.
Plenty of siblings have spoken out about the grief and devastation they feel upon learning they had a brother or sister who was aborted. They speak of missing their siblings, despite never having known them, or describe it as “a giant what-if.” Still others speak of a longing to have known their brother or sister. And on top of the grief, many siblings also echo the same thought: that had they been seen as an inconvenience the way their aborted sibling was, they wouldn’t be here today. Instead of knowing their parents love their children unconditionally, these siblings are being sent the horrifying message that they only were allowed to exist because they were conceived under the right circumstances. Is abortion love for one’s community?
The argument that abortion shows love to a community is another utterly baffling one to make. It’s hard to imagine how one can make the argument that a community is better off with fewer children being born, but this argument is reminiscent of a population control mindset, which is quite popular — particularly with wealthy westerners — across the globe. Meanwhile, birth rates are plummeting in many countries, with the United States reaching an all-time low last year, according to the CDC. Far from being a good thing, it has experts issuing dire warnings, as low birth rates cause populations to drastically decline over a relatively short period of time. A birth rate that is below replacement rate is not healthy for societies economically, or in any other way. Is abortion love for women?
The most common argument people will make for abortion is that women know what is best for them, and we should respect their choice. But is abortion actually a force for good in women’s lives? Despite what some flawed studies may claim, abortion regret is common, and the psychological consequences and physical risks of abortion are well documented. But even aside from those immediate issues, abortion still does not show love to women or improve their lives, potential, or future.
The idea that abortion somehow improves a woman’s “potential” is grossly misogynistic, to begin with. One’s potential does not rise and fall depending on one’s ability to kill one’s children. And worse, abortion is a sign that our society has utterly failed women. It allows the status quo to continue, with women pressured and coerced into abortions by their parents, partners, and employers. It allows women to be told they must choose between their children and their future, with both educators and employers refusing to accommodate pregnant and parenting women.
Even abortionists acknowledge that abortion does not fix the problems that lead women to think they have no other choice. After all, when the procedure is done, nothing has changed, and why should it? As long as abortion is legal, there’s no impetus for anything to change. It’s far easier to tell a woman to kill her child and come back to work than it is to revamp a workplace to be more family-friendly.
Framing abortion as “loving” is as nonsensical as framing slavery as freedom, or war as peace. It’s long past time for the lies to stop, and for the truth to win out.
Of course they love abortion. They love to kill babies.
They have always been liars.
Remember “safe, legal, AND RARE”?
They’ve gone and dropped the RARE part.
They serve the father of lies
I have to sadly disagree.
The "Death with Dignity" crowd has been pushing this concept for some time for people who are ill, aged, depressed, incapacitated in some way or handicapped in any way. Or sometimes if they are just a bother.
In a very odd way this is a sign that we are winning. They have not used this argument before because they have never had the push back that the pre-born are people.
Now they are being forced to use the same language for both the pre and post born. They are being forced to acknowledge both as people. People that they want to kill but still people.
The "just a clump of cells" (and what are we if not a clump of cells?) or the even more silly "Tumor" or "Tissue" label is not working any more. It is a person.
This is an incredibly big step.
People that promote murder of innocent life are sick. Most have never had personal experiwnce There are millions of women whose lives are ruined forever
SUPPORT Baby killing
and the SHE to HE to IT MOVEMENT
VOTE PERVOCRAT
If I had to boil down into one word all the reasons that Trump is hated, vilified and mistreated by the media, the Democratic party and their supporters and allies, that one word would be “abortion.”
Everything else is a smokescreen. Trump represents an existential threat to Roe vs. Wade and the country’s abortion-promoting hegemony, and for that reason more than any other they want to destroy him. And for that reason, among many others, every single person who calls himself or herself a pro-lifer MUST have Trump’s back in a way that we’ve never supported any other president in our lifetimes.
If you want to make a pro-choice person really upset, show them a picture of an actual fetus. They go ballistic. They want to see a misshapen clump of cells, not a small human being.
The same people who will be happy on #deathcampsarelove if Sanders and his crowd get their way. It’s all very Orwellian. 2 + 2 = 5.
They stand on the shoulders of the one who loves the death of God’s children.
Yes they do. They are all a bunch of lying skanks.
Any discussion of trending internet traffic has to keep in mind the fact that so much traffic is bots and phony identities invented by black pr firms. Some estimates are 60% false identities. Maybe more.
The puzzling thing to me is that they love to kill innocent babies and protect criminals who hurt innocent people.
I guess if there was a parallel, THEY are the criminals who hurt innocent people; so they protect their own.
Yes, it puzzles me too.
shades of the NAZIs’ “work sets you free”
the founders of their movement were certifiably crazy and they actively promote chaos. down is up. wrong is right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Millett
Only creatures with a clinical mental illness (aka psychosis) can possibly hold such a belief.
How can there ever be any reasoning with such people ?
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