Announcing 2nd Annual “Ask Them What They Mean by ‘Choice’” Blog Day, January 22
Our response last year to NARAL’s “Blog for Choice Day” was frankly spectacular.
The plan was simple.
Every year NARAL uses the anniversary of the infamous Roe v. Wade decision to try to talk up “choice.”
But last year pro-lifers banded together on our blogs, their blogs, Facebook, and Twitter to cut through their ambiguous chatter with the disquieting question, “What do you mean when you say, ‘choice’?”
In all, 99 pro-life bloggers and countless activists overwhelmed 90 pro-abortion bloggers to the point NARAL had to abandon its Twitter hashtag #BlogforChoiceDay mid-morning because we took it over.
The idea is simple. On January 22, any time you read pro-aborts spouting obscure “choice” rhetoric on a blog, website, Facebook, or Twitter, call them out on it. Ask them to explain what the “choice” euphemism means. Tweeters plan to use their #Tweet4Choice hashtag.
If you are a blogger, plan on posting about “choice” on January 22. Email me the name and url of your blog, and I will post you as a participant.
Feel free to use the graphic above. Thanks to pro-life graphic designer Kimberly of Spectacle Graphics for creating it.
More details to follow.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
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Hans: You’ve been displaying a typical pro-choice lack of emotion, awareness, or caring throughout this thread.
Oh Hans, come on….
You’re not measuring up very well with those pre-born babies you dismiss. At least in a few months they will have those qualities to match your lofty criteria for humanity.
Well, just what is “humanity”? If you just mean “living human organism,” then the zygote qualifies.
Anyway, seems to me you are personifying the unborn, and “feeling sorry” for them, when there is no awareness, no caring there, in the first place. Meanwhile, you comparatively ignore the pregnant woman, who most certainly has emotions, cares, can suffer, etc.
I don’t forget about these mothers. I would tell them life is tough. And its being tough is not enough reason to deny their child to have their crack at it.
Name me another organism that is programmed to be on the road toward your aware and caring criteria. Which will occur at an impossible-to-identify time, by the way. Which invalidates their relevance.
Until that time they will be like any other creature, reacting to stimuli for their survival. Your real threshold won’t really occur till months after birth.
Thus, personhood for a human begins when that person is conceived.
I don’t forget about these mothers. I would tell them life is tough. And its being tough is not enough reason to deny their child to have their crack at it.
Okay, Hans, so it’s your opinion against that of the pregnant woman if she wants to have an abortion.
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Name me another organism that is programmed to be on the road toward your aware and caring criteria. Which will occur at an impossible-to-identify time, by the way. Which invalidates their relevance.
Some other species get to awareness, emotion, etc. – dolphins, chimps (and some other primates), elephants. “Invalidates their relevance”? Again, your opinion, and it’s a given that not everybody agrees with you from the get-go.
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Until that time they will be like any other creature, reacting to stimuli for their survival. Your real threshold won’t really occur till months after birth.
No – most fetuses get to what I’m talking about late in the 2nd trimester or in the 3rd.
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Thus, personhood for a human begins when that person is conceived.
:: laughing :: How do you figure that?
Personhood is attributed status. You, yourself, can say that you think it’s a person at conception, but that’s a far different thing from society making it as policy.