Pro-life advocates were doing too well by comparing abortion to chattel slavery of the antebellum United States. It must have worried Screwtape to see such a powerful analogy on the pro-life side, so he put out a memo to Lower Management and the R & D department Down Below has finally come through with their spin. Their Father Below must be proud.
"I volunteer with a local group called the Haven Coalition that offers free overnight home stays to women who come to New York for late-term abortions. Adeena, whose name has been changed to protect her privacy, is 24 years old and 24 weeks pregnant. She’d caught a Greyhound from Pennsylvania earlier that day, and spent the afternoon at a clinic in midtown getting part one of an abortion that will be completed tomorrow.
[…]
"’Can I ask you something?’ she inquires. ‘Why you doing this?’
"’You mean sharing my place with you?’
"I tell her I’m upset that people like her have such a hard time getting abortions, and besides, I remember being young and being (more than once) in a similar fix. I don’t tell her about the differences: how I always had Blue Cross Blue Shield and never went past seven weeks."
Surprisingly enough, since most groups like this take pride in their activities, I wasn’t able to find a web site for the Haven Coalition. (Screwtape and his minions must be getting better at instructing the hairless bipeds under their thrall to disguise some of their activities, although the guardian demon of the writer of the article for New York Magazine is probably in for a roasting later.) I did, however, find this tidbit about the group on a site that bills itself as protecting "choice":
"Haven Coalition: Haven Coalition is a network of volunteers who open their homes to low-income women forced to travel to New York City for abortion procedures. To find out more information or learn how you can volunteer, send an email here."
Oh, and be sure to check out the logo of ProtectChoice.org: an angry woman with an upraised fist. Says it all.
Actually, there is a group of abortion doctors and advocates who have formed what they call an underground railroad to provide clandestine abortions in the event that abortion is illegal.
Good grief. That woman ought to be ashamed – how did she manage to get pregnant more than once? Wasn’t she practicing Safe Sex like Planned Parenthood teaches?
*end sarcasm*
That article is unbelievable. Not because it goes on and on about how important and wonderful a choice it is to have an abortion – that’s old hat- but it could win a gold medal in patronizing condescension. Did anyone get the impression from reading the article that these rich women feel disdain for their ‘guests’? I know I did. Four pages of “For the greater social good, we’re helping out these stupid, ungrateful people.”
Did it ever occur to any of these affluent do-gooders to offer to adopt one of these unwanted babies? Or to help a desperate young mother with expenses, so that she might be able to keep the child?
This is twisted charity.
Dear God.
Mary, Mother of God, Pray for us.
from page three, if you have the stomach to read that far:
“Being pro-choice is a morality that takes you morally out of the picture.”
No. It doesn’t.
That statement struck me too, whimsy. Twisted, like Tim said.
Disturbing. I understand denial, and fear, but the cold-bloodedness of the avid pro-abortion people — coupled with a belief (if genuine) that they are doing something moral — Tim’s right it is twisted.
Disturbing. I understand denial, and fear, but the cold-bloodedness of the avid pro-abortion people — coupled with a belief (if genuine) that they are doing something moral — Tim’s right it is twisted.