Hey angry feminists, believe it
On January 28 Planned Parenthood of the Gulf Coast (currently being sued for Medicaid fraud) featured author and founder of the blog Feministing, Jessica Valenti, at its 40th Anniversary Roe v. Wade Luncheon.
Valenti’s speech was about being an “angry feminist,” and during it she showed the following photo, explaining, “It really perfectly captures the sentiment of this particular moment in the fight for reproductive rights right now.”
The photo is of an abortion proponent protesting a bill in Virginia last year that mandated ultrasounds before abortion. I’ve edited out the vulgarity…
Two words, Jessica: Believe it.
In actuality, that photo perfectly captures the dashed expectations of the pro-abortion movement after Roe v. Wade legalized preborn child murder throughout the land in 1973. They thought they had won. They thought disapproving Americans would eventually get over it, and abortion would become a normal part of life.
Valenti went on in her speech to say, “It’s not that I’m angry. It’s that I’m exhausted. The war on reproductive health and autonomy feels absolutely never ending.”
The fact is, Jessica, the war will indeed never end – until we win.
Though a righteous person falls seven times, he will rise again,
but the wicked stumble into calamity. ~ Proverbs 24:16
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.
Believe it, baby.
As long as I have breath in my lungs and a beat in my heart, I will make it hard for you to keep killing in the name of “liberation.”
PS nice pic of you and your sign. You look so ….liberated.
Jill,
As long as Proverbs 24:11-12 and Proverbs 31:8-9 exist, and as long as there is human life, the unrighteous will not continue their wicked deeds unchallenged or unopposed…
(…amen, Courtnay!)
Isn’t listening to our opponents whine and complain just so heartwarming? Don’t you just love to get it straight from the horse’s aaaa, uh, mouth that long years of struggle, frustration, setbacks, and mostly hard work are paying off for the PL movement?
How ironic that the speaker’s mother marched for abortion “rights”. What a relief for the speaker to know she was planned and wanted, otherwise she might not be here today, fighting for the “right” to choose.
Why do these ms-anthropic militant feministas insist on projecting a masculine persona?
Seems counter-intuitive.
Maybe it’s one of those ‘woman’ things.
ktb, why do you sport a beard?
I’ve discovered it’s one of the few things a man has that woman does not want!
Grandfather was on his death bed and all the family had gathered at the hospital.
Doctors comes out of grandpa’s room all eyes are on him, hoping for good news, but alas, it was not to be. The doc says they should all make their peace with the ailing patriarch while there is still time. They beseech the doc. Surely he can do something to save gramps life. The don concedes there may be a procedure he could try that might cheat death, but it was very risky and very expensive.
What is it and how much does it cost?
A brain transplant, he say.
How much does it cost?
Depends, he says. If I use a male brain it will be a 500k, but if I use a female brain it will be 50k.
A great grandaughter wants to know why the female brain only costs 50k.
The doc says, Because the female brain has been used.
Amen, Jill! It will not end until the killing ends. Until WE WIN and the child in the womb is protected!
Actually it’s not going to end until Christ comes back to rule and reign in Jerusalem, and Satan is bound in the pit 1000 years. Then the abortion wars will end, not before then. If the pro-life side gets the upper hand, overturns Roe v Wade, and makes abortion illegal before the Second Coming, that won’t end the abortion war. The pro-aborts will just go into battle to get the upper hand back again. Only the return of Christ will settle the question once and for all. Until then, whichever side doesn’t have the upper hand will fight to acquire it.
Ah the rage……the post abortive rage!!
Believe it.
I remember it well. And then I found healing.
I am constantly talking to my kids about the evils of abortion. Our future generations need to continue our fight!
Isn’t ‘angry femiminist’ a redundancy?
I CANNOT BELIEVE I STILL HAVE TO TELL YOU IT IS NOT OKAY TO KILL HUMANS!
(Oh and that your grey suit jacket doesn’t go that well with your brown leather belt).
Hey Jessica, none of my children were aborted and they are all adamantly pro-life and are now old enough to vote, work with PRCs and help spread a pro-life message in their communities – which is exactly what they are doing. (Yes – my wife and I are very proud of them!)
Not only will you have to continue to protest, but you are steadily losing ground which no amount of political power will stop. Every generation we raise will be taught to enthusiastically embrace life, regardless of procreative origin.
Unfortunately for you, when you are old and feeble and want to go out to protest against the overturning of RvW, our children will probably drive you there, and hand you a poster which you’ll have to put your glasses on to read. It will say: I was brought here by children who value and love life more than death.
Your on-going message of killing children is falling on deaf ears.
Haven’t you learned by now?
Love wins.
In 2008 the obamateur website promised:
Guantanamo has become a recruiting tool for our enemies. The legal framework behind Guantanamo has failed completely…The first step to reclaiming America’s standing in the world has to be closing this facility. As president, Barack Obama will close the detention facility at Guantanamo.
In March of 2011, the obamateur resumed military trials for terrorist suspects being held in Guantanamo Bay. The networks greeted this “stunning reversal” by covering it only in news briefs.
But on Monday, 2013, the United States State Department on Monday announced that it will close the office dedicated to shutting down Guantanamo Bay. According to the New York Times, this means that the President “does not currently see the closing of the prison as a realistic priority, despite repeated statements that [the administration] still intends to do so.”
[But b o, will you still respect me in the morning?]
Hi Ken,
Did he at least kiss them first?
“Ah the rage……the post abortive rage!!” – yes, believe what you need to to make you happy.
Homosexuality has been decriminalized for some years now yet gays still suffer discrimination, verbal and physical abuse and the constant attempts by religious groups to recriminalize homosexuality.
Not much different to abortion really.
“the war will indeed never end – until we win” – then the only thing which will end the war is the extinction of the human species.
Just wondering — are these women ever happy, content, or satisfied about ANYTHING, Do they ever smile, laugh, tell jokes? Or is life one continuous b*tch and moan session?
They probably feel the same way about the anti-choice brigade phillymiss, given what they see and hear from them.
“then the only thing which will end the war is the extinction of the human species.”
Well, isn’t is special when the abortionist minions finally admit what their end goal is? Who is chopping LIVING HUMAN BEINGS UP INTO BLOODY BITS? We’re not. We are opposed to chopping human beings into bloody bits and then counting their body parts as they are packed into little bags. Yes, it is abundantly clear that abortionism is a fatal disease and that it’s advocates will not be happy with ANY amount of blood. 55 million human beings dead (not counting twins, triplets, etc.) and all they do is moan that there isn’t enough access to feticide. 0_o.
Tired of fighting? Then quit. Because we won’t, not until the disease of abortionism is eradicated and humans have healed from it.
Ah, the usual overblown rhetoric yet again. ” the abortionist minions finally admit what their end goal is?” – go on, tell me what you base that on.
“abortionism is a fatal disease” – a fatal disease now! Oh dear, whatever will it be next.
“Tired of fighting?” – nope. The most just causes are the easiest to persist with.
“Then quit.” – not while medieval-minded, misogynistic, moron political leaders continue to pander to the anti-freedom zealots.
“Because we won’t, not until the disease of abortionism is eradicated and humans have healed from it.” – like I said, it’ll take extinction for that to occur.
The words abortion and happy do not go together Reality.
You are not allowed to deny my abortion story or anything I choose to say about it.
Got it??
Psalm 2:1 Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing?
That verse popped into my mind looking at this photo.
“Ah, the usual overblown rhetoric yet again. ” the abortionist minions finally admit what their end goal is?” – go on, tell me what you base that on.”
“– like I said, it’ll take extinction for that to occur.”
I don’t think the woman in the photo is Valenti. I think the photo is just being used to illustrate the story because when I clicked on Valenti’s tweet, she has longer hair and looks a little younger.
Abortion as we know it WILL end. Eventually, women will be able to detect a pregnancy within a few days or hours of conception and terminate it with an OTC pill. Thank you, scientific progress and modern medicine.
Wow. I’d be rooting for the route where innocent people DON’T get killed, like, a 100% effective method of contraception. But nah, we’ll just kill ‘em younger, ‘cuz THAT makes a difference. Totally.
“The words abortion and happy do not go together Reality.” – actually, they often do.
“You are not allowed to deny my abortion story or anything I choose to say about it.” – I don’t. What I deny is your claim that everyone elses experience is the same as yours, even if they say it isn’t.
Get it??
How does your logic work ninek? I say that it’ll take extinction for abortion to end and you claim that extinction is the aim of pro-choicers. Tell me how that works.
The trouble is xalisae, even if the scenario you describe is realised, a good number of folks here will simply concentrate their efforts on trying to get rid of contraception. So many believe that nothing, absolutely nothing, should get in the way of ensuring as much conception as possible.
Yes Reality.
Because as a rule that is how I always type about MY abortion regret. Saying things like
ALL women feel this way
ALL women go through that
EVERY woman regrets their abortions
EVERY SINGLE ONE.
Abortion killed MY daughter.
MY abortion hurt ME.
PS When angry women come up to me and scream in my face that their abortion was THE BEST THING THEY HAVE EVER DONE it is pretty clear to see that it wasn’t. I mean, who spits in someone’s face and flips them the bird in their HAPPINESS over their abortion??
Put a sock in it already.
Reality 8:45PM
You’re being absurd. Get rid of contraception? Just how pray tell will this be accomplished?
Yes Carla.
Because as a rule you type stuff like “Ah the rage……the post abortive rage!!” rather than the facts of the situation.
“When angry women come up to me and scream in my face that their abortion was THE BEST THING THEY HAVE EVER DONE it is pretty clear to see that it wasn’t.” – that’s your wishful thinking. They’re just trying to get you to see the truth and that’s difficult because you simply can’t accept that it is so.
“I mean, who spits in someone’s face and flips them the bird in their HAPPINESS over their abortion??” – probably not too many. They probably do it out of sheer annoyance at the behavior demonstrated by anti-choice zealots.
Put it in a sock already :-)
I stand with my I Regret My Abortion sign. Silently. In front of PP.
They flip me off. They swear at me. They yell in my face. It has nothing really to do with me and everything to do with WHY ARE THEY SO ANGRY??? Nobody gets to justify their misplaced anger. “Well she was standing there quietly with that sign!!”
They choose what they do in their anger. And they are trying to get me to see the truth huh? What truth might that be?
22 years ago I WAS THE ONE FLIPPING THE PROLIFERS OFF!!
But you must know better than I about my abortion I guess. Right?
Mary………I knew I shouldn’t have and I did. DOH!!!
The trouble is xalisae, even if the scenario you describe is realised, a good number of folks here will simply concentrate their efforts on trying to get rid of contraception. So many believe that nothing, absolutely nothing, should get in the way of ensuring as much conception as possible.
Profoundly stupid. Most pro life folks use contraception, so they are fine with contraception. Bucket of duh.
There are pro life folks who don’t use or agree with contraception, but even they don’t worry about other people using it with informed consent. There are also pro life folks who oppose the death penalty, but like contraception it is a separate issue. Of course everyone knows this already. I just mention it because of the absurdity of the statement that anti abortion is just code for anti contraception.
“Most pro life folks use contraception, so they are fine with contraception.” – really? Which ones? Condoms? The pill? ooo, isn’t that a bit abortifacient to some? What about IUD’s? RU486?
Catholics are supposed to be against all forms of contraception. If they oppose abortion because of their faith shouldn’t they also oppose contraception? Or are tere even less ‘real’ catholics that we thought?
Catholics are opposed to artificial forms of contraception. Natural family planning works just fine and is licit. More Catholics practice that than you might think.
RU486 is not a contraceptive.
Do you mean fewer “real” Catholics or less “real” Catholics? The meaning between the two is totally different.
Good question Joanne, and thank you for the elucidation.
I meant ‘fewer’ but ‘less’ is also still applicable.
So many believe that nothing, absolutely nothing, should get in the way of ensuring as much conception as possible.
Considering the extent of the overlap between the pro-life crowd and the religious abstinence-outside-of-marriage crowd, that got a good laugh out of me. Thank you. :)
‘Love’, ‘Community’, ‘Compassion’ and ‘Womens Rights’ have strange new meanings in 2013 it seems, and since Roe Vs Wade according to Ms Valenti.
I realise I’m typecasting myself, perhaps irrevocably, by appearing only to say this (I really do hope to be a regular contributor again, after this school year [with its brand new books, lesson plans, and other zaniness] ends), but:
Don’t feed the troll (i.e. Reality), y’all. Ignore him, and let him go try to jeer and provoke the support beams of his bridge into anger, instead.
Paladin,
Indeed good sir!! I shall heed your words today!! :)
“I cannot believe I still have to protest this s***!”
You don’t. Your choice.
Nice to hear from you, Paladin! I thought of you the last couple of days when I read through this thread. (:
Wish I could like your last comment ten times, Carla! She doesn’t seem to understand choice-making very well.
I love it when Reality makes himself look the fool after the most mild bit of goading from me.
The angry/exhausted Valenti speech: http://youtu.be/fNMIrCJC5F0
They probably feel the same way about the anti-choice brigade phillymiss, given what they see and hear from them
Our symbol is a rose, yours is a coat hanger. Who do you think is more miserable?
“Most pro life folks use contraception, so they are fine with contraception.” – really? Which ones? Condoms? The pill? ooo, isn’t that a bit abortifacient to some? What about IUD’s? RU486?
I used the pill when I was younger, but it made me feel weird and bloated. The barrier methods worked just fine. Hope I’m not sharing too much information . . .
Thank you, one and all, who work to make it harder to abort. Thank you for exposing Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry for their greed and corruption. Let us continue to fight for this noble cause. LIFE. This vile atrocity our society committed 40 years ago MUST be reversed.
I love it when xalisae gets frustrated at being unable to realistically deny the facts of a situation, fails to delude me as she does herself and then gets angrier and angrier.
Nah, not too much info phillymiss, many women have used the pill at some stage, a few aren’t comfortable with it.
Realstupidity says: January 30, 2013 at 6:18 pm
Homosexuality has been decriminalized for some years now yet gays still suffer discrimination, verbal and physical abuse and the constant attempts by religious groups to recriminalize homosexuality.
realstupidity,
Please cite some examples where anyone is trying to ‘re-criminaize’ homosexuality.
If you are experiencing difficulty in your search try using the key words ‘muslim’, ‘sharia’ and ‘homosexuality’.
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/uk-gay-muslim-sharia-law-in-this-country-would-take-away-all-my-civil-liberties/
“Please cite some examples where anyone is trying to ‘re-criminaize’ homosexuality.”
Well, you could look at what Bryan Fischer from the AFA says about wanting to recriminalize sodomy. Rick Perry is associated with the AFA, wonder if he agrees. The Texas Republican party also opposes finding sodomy laws unconstitutional, along with wanting to deny custody to homosexual parents of children, and wants it to be legal to deny partnership benefits to gay couples (I don’t know if they want this to apply to private businesses that choose to offer gay couples partnership benefits, but I wouldn’t be surprised). There are other examples as well. It’s thankfully getting better, but this discrimination still exists. In the US. It’s not confined to Muslim law and Islamic nations.
1)Jessica is such a cranky gurl, and probably wants to stay that way.
2) It always amazed me how the leftists pretend to support their special interest groups, e.g. Blacks and gays. Meanwhile they betray those same groups e.g. by aborting half of them, or by alliances with extremist Muslim groups who want to enslave the first group and chop the heads off of the second group.
Crazy!
Good try JB,
But no cigar.
Cite an example where someone has proposed legislation to Re-CRIMINALIZE homosexuality, not ‘sodomy’.
‘sodomy’ is not synonymous [How many words in the English language have more than one ‘y’?] with ‘homosexuality’. The ‘sexperts’ tell us anal sex is growing in popularity with heterosexuals. [Please see ‘pegging’].
Don’t you know homosexuality is not about ‘sex’?
Homosexuality is about loving long term, mutually respectful relationship built on monogamy, fidelity and trust.
There are two elderly gentlemen who live in the building where I am employed and I am told they have been ‘partnering’ for decades. I should interview them and ask them how many other same sex couples they know of who are still together after more than a year? I bet they are both conservative and ‘pro-life’ as well. I wan to know which one of them has first dibs on the remote control.
I like the guys. One of these days I am going to take them to lunch and hear their life story. Everyone has story. [I met a WWII vet on the train the other day who served in the Navy in the Pacific and was part of the occupying force in Japan after the war ended. He had a great life story’.]
The first thing two people have to do to be in a long term relationship is for both of them to stay alive a long time.
That is one big hurdle for homosexuals.
“Cite an example where someone has proposed legislation to Re-CRIMINALIZE homosexuality, not ‘sodomy’.
‘sodomy’ is not synonymous [How many words in the English language have more than one ‘y’?] with ‘homosexuality’. The ‘sexperts’ tell us anal sex is growing in popularity with heterosexuals. [Please see ‘pegging’].”
You’re just being obtuse, Ken. Sodomy laws were almost always applied to gay men, not straights. Wanting to reenact sodomy laws is targetting gays, and it’s really silly to pretend that it’s not.
I love it when xalisae gets frustrated at being unable to realistically deny the facts of a situation, fails to delude me as she does herself and then gets angrier and angrier.
I’m not angry. I think it’s funny when you have to grasp at straws. Pretending someone’s aiming to make birth control illegal (or even if they were, acting as though they could), and comparing GTD to healthy reproduction (STILL waiting on an answer on that thread, Mr. Frustrated Facts) would be such instances. You use your rhetoric like a blankey and self-soothe, then lash out when I don’t accept your b.s.
It’s amusing. And, a little sad, too.