Sunday, August 05, 2007

Examining "Pro-Life" Propaganda

Planned Parenthood is opening a new full service health center in Aurora, Illinois. Joseph Scheidler, the head of a group called the Pro-Life Action League, sent out this truly disturbing fundraising letter, which outlines their crusade against the Aurora clinic.

In the letter, Scheidler refers to Planned Parenthood as an "abortion mill" and a "killing chamber." He makes no mention of the numerous other health services that Planned Parenthood provides to women and girls. He describes plans to try to convince contractors not to work on the building. He brags about his son taking photos of the contractors' vehicles. He writes about hiring lawyers to try to find a zoning ordinance or other flimsy excuse to keep the clinic from opening. He also writes about his other expenses:

"Bills from my printer alone are staggering. We have to print literally tons of leaflets, brochures and pamhlets to get the word out about abortion. Of course, it's all worth it, because we're saving babies with those pieces of paper."

But is "saving babies" really the PLAL's goal? Or is their goal to terrorize women, threaten healthcare providers, and enforce their personal views on morality?

The next section of Scheidler's letter mentions "sidewalk counseling" - in other words, protesting. Screaming at and threatening clinic personnel and customers. Waving gruesome banners and trying to frighten women with threats of eternal damnation and sometimes, physical violence. He even has a name for volunteers who try to protect these women from their "counseling": deathscorts.

This is what the "pro-life" movement is. Threats. Intimidation. Manipulation. Moral superiority. They offer no practical solutions for preventing abortions, only ways to make it harder for women in a desperate situation to receive the medical care that they need.

Planned Parenthood is doing more to prevent abortions than any so-called "pro-life" group. Planned Parenthood educates the public about sexuality and pregnancy and STI prevention. Planned Parenthood distributes birth control. Planned Parenthood prevents unwanted pregnancies. Fewer unwanted pregnancies means fewer abortions. Yes, they provide abortions, but they are first and foremost an organization dedicated to the prevention of unwanted pregnancies.

People genuinely interested in preventing abortion should be interested in preventing the causes of abortion. But most prominent "pro-life" organizations are actually opposed to comprehensive sex education and birth control. I've been reading How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics, and the War on Sex by Christina Page, which has shocking details about this phenomenon. I think it's one of the most important books you could ever read, no matter how you personally feel about abortion.

To help Planned Parenthood continue to fight for reproductive choice and women's autonomy, you can donate locally or nationally. Scheidler can probably get a lot of donations by claiming that he's trying to "save babies." Planned Parenthood has the truth on their side, but unfortunately, the truth isn't always what makes people get out their checkbooks.

29 comments:

Anonymous said...

Whereas this guy sounds like wuite the psycho, I still think life begins at conception, and that the fetus has rights (if we're going to delimit rights at all).

However, my best argument to young women looking at abortion is: I had a girlfriend once, and she said that, even after several years, she still had blood red nightmares about it. No, she didn't regret the decision, for in context it was the right one (she got pregnant by accident, ie: drunk), but she did indeed suffer some unexpected consequences. One of those is that her subconscious apparently was not going to let her forget that she, a female, killed a life within her womb.

Difficult, as a man, to watch and listen to that.

So, as a woman can factually abort without any help from a doctor or the state (see Nirvana's "Pennyroyal Tea"), I have no power or right to claim she mustn't abort. She can, and if she wants to, she will. That's just the fact.

But, as it is diametrically opposed to your purpose as a mammalian female, you should expect biological, and concordantly psychological, complications. Such as nightmares filled with vengeful bloody fetii, according to more than one girl I have known.

I implore you to use a frikken condom. If you're old enough to be screwing, you're old enough to protect yourself from the consequences. Killing a life because you got drunk and careless wouldn't keep you out of jail for a DUI, why should it here?

It's different? Maybe. Or maybe not.

Point is, don't get pregnant, the "right to abort" becomes a non-issue.

And of course, me and Ron Paul think there's no reason to make a federal case out of it. 10th Amendment - state's rights. CA, MA, and NY are certainly not going to go all bible belt on you overnight. State's rights is definitely the way to figure this one out.

// my two cents

Be well.

Anonymous said...

Three days before this blog was posted, I had an abortion at a Planned Parenthood. I was on Othro Tricyclen, still got pregnant (there's myth number one gone. Birth control fails! Condoms fail! Pills fail! Not everyone with an unwanted pregnancy fits your description of "irresponsible"!) Two, over nine months later I am still relieved. No "blood red nightmares." Give me a break! Getting an abortion was, for me, a experience that, yeah, I wish I hadn't had to go through but it was by no means traumatizing. But...oh wait, aren't women supposed to be traumatized? Shoot...I must have missed that bus!

Bottom line: the vast majority of women, after having an abortion, feel relieved and continue to feel relieved months and years after.

Married women get abortions. Women with children get abortions. Women on birth control get abortions. It's not just slutty teenagers.

One in every three American women have an abortion before age 45. How many women do you know?

Anonymous said...

What source did you take your information from? I would like to know if this guy is really crazy or just a benevolent protester exercizing his rights.

Anonymous said...

interesting that someone mentioned that "1 out of 3 women get an abortion before 45".....1 out of 3 women are also statistically raped. i wonder if there is a connection.

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