Champions of Choice

I'm back (again)! Here's a little gem I found in my ceasless trolling of the online pro-life scene. It's from the latest "Walk for Choice" in Chicago. Disclaimer: I am not in any way insinuating that all pro-choicers are like this. Rather, I would like to suggest that if you consider yourself pro-choice, have a look at what these champions of your cause are like.



A few things came to mind as I watched this. First, to the guy who wants Planned Parenthood clinics to be like Starbucks -one on every corner- of course you do, mate. Reminded me of this guy:


(image from fsunews.com)

Hmm.....

The girl with the "keep your rosaries off my ovaries" sign reminded me of a comment made by Dr. Bernard Nathanson about the role of the abortion rights movement in vilifying the Catholic Church as anti-choice religious fanatics bent on keeping women oppressed under a patriarchal religious system. Now, I'll be the first to say that the Catholic establishment has done a lot of indefensible things down the centuries, but this is not one of them. As Dr Nathanson said,

" We systematically vilified the Catholic Church and its "socially backward ideas" and picked on the Catholic hierarchy as the villain in opposing abortion. This theme was played endlessly. We fed the media such lies as "we all know that opposition to abortion comes from the hierarchy and not from most Catholics" and "Polls prove time and again that most Catholics want abortion law reform". And the media drum-fired all this into the American people, persuading them that anyone opposing permissive abortion must be under the influence of the Catholic hierarchy..." [emphasis mine]

And anyway, what about every Hindu/Muslim/Buddhist/agnostic/atheist prolifer out there? Surely they deserve their fair share of vilification as "anti-choice fanatics"! Just kidding.

The rest of Dr. Nathanson's testimony can be read here.


For peace, love and respect in all things,
freedomfightergirl