Powers: Maybe the real bullies are women like Wendy Davis
One can assume I am also not the only woman in America who is really tiring of the Wendys of the world claiming to represent “women’s rights” in their quest to mainstream a medical procedure — elective late-term abortion — that most of the civilized world finds barbaric and abhorrent.
In many European countries, you can’t get an abortion past 12 weeks, except in narrow circumstances. Gallup reported in January that 80 percent of Americans think abortion should be illegal in the third trimester, and 64 percent think it should be illegal in the second trimester.
If the majority of Americans oppose elective late-term abortion, why do we have Davis complaining to CBS’s Bob Schieffer that the male politicians who are championing the late-term abortion ban are “bullying women”?
Maybe it’s she who is bullying the rest of us into supporting a view that is mocked by scientific advancement; namely 3-D sonograms. Maybe we should be thankful for the men and wonder what is wrong with the women who think protecting the right to abort your baby for any reason up to the 26th week is a “human right.”
~ Democrat Kirsten Powers (pictured), The Daily Beast, July 2
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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.
I don’t agree with Kristen Powers about some things but I definitely agree with this one. Thank you Kristen for standing up to the radical pro-aborts who are in love with the pro-death agenda at any cost. They love Kermit Gosnell and what he stood for. The want abortion at any cost, at any time. They refuse to accept any limits on abortion. I thank her for being the one to expose the Gosnell fiasco and the lack of news coverage, when they held his trial and no reporters came.
Wendy Davis doesn’t represent me!
What an awesome statement by Kristen Powers!
Amen and Amen!!
Interestingly enough, most European countries made their abortion laws through their democratic processes, not judicial fiat. It seems that radically permissive abortion regimes generally occur when the courts decide to stick their noses in i.e. as in the US or Canada.
Wendy Davis doesn’t speak for me, either.
Becoming a parent isn’t an easy thing. Pregnancy isn’t always an easy thing. For those who give the baby up for adoption, it isn’t an easy thing. But doing the right thing isn’t always easy. Sometimes you have to do something difficult to grow as a human being. I certainly have. Life isn’t easy. If you think it is, you’re in for a rude awakening. (Yet, another reason I stand by my Catholic Christian Faith, because it gives me hope–I know it is so–and it’s something real to hang onto in the midst of many things–good and bad).
I like Kirsten, and I want to learn more about her.
Clearly, she is not running on pure emotion — She actually thinks about the policies that she supports, why she supports those policies, and what the actual consequences of those policies might be.
She is also concerned about how Americans actually want to live, instead of how the elitists expect us to live.
Kirsten is not your typical liberal. She is using a real thing called “common sense” (as opposed to the more commonly found “common misconceptions”). If her common sense is leading her to support the typically “liberal” policies, I’d like to see how she got there.
Our liberal friends on the board, like Ex-GOP and REALITY, could learn from Kirsten.
In my experience there are more liberals uncomfortable with the pro-choice position than the media and Democrat leaders would have you believe. Just look at the numbers against late-term abortions. Of course you have the die-hards who want abortion legal until the ninth month, but the majority of people, liberal or conservative, can see the horror of viable 25 week old babies being killed in the womb. From there it’s only a small step to realizing that all abortions are depriving a baby of life.
I like Kirsten Powers for giving a voice to the subset of liberals who agree with other liberal policies (like universal healthcare, gay rights, etc) but feel trapped to the pro-choice position. Maybe she’ll start a strong movement to help those of us who are for the most part liberal, get some reform in the Democratic party. That would be awesome. There are plenty of vegans, gays, atheists, other groups who have traditionally been lumped into the pro-choice stuff by default who either haven’t thought about it or feel like they have to accept pro-choice. The pro-life movement carries some of the blame for that, it’s not really the most welcome place for those of liberal ideology, but the pressure from their fellows on the liberal side is another factor. We need more liberal politicians speaking out of this. My friend Garrett (a gay atheist) said he took pro-choice as kind of a default and never really thought about it before I started showing him how pro-life is consistent with a liberal ideology, much more consistent than allowing the killing of a group of humans based on external characteristics. A lot of them simply accept pro-choice because it’s tied to other things that they feel strongly about. They need people like Kirsten Powers to show them that it doesn’t have to be like that.
Hear! Hear! And, “Brava, Kirsten Powers!”
Jack,
Kirsten has the advantage of being informed by her Catholic faith. Unlike most liberal Catholics, she will not “throw the baby out with the bath water.”
The reason the Pro-life movement is predominantly conservative is very simple. Most conservatives are sensibly conservative. They want to conserve good things such as babies :) and, yes, a clean environment, believe it or not. The stereotype of the greedy, self-centered conservative is much rarer than it has been portrayed.
However, many of the liberals have wandered far afield in the last century, to become libertine. They are so all-consumed with rights that they don’t consider the rights of those they’re not focussed on. They will step all over them for their cause.
“She is also concerned about how Americans actually want to live, instead of how the elitists expect us to live.”
Oh, that’s rich. Americans overwhelmingly support abortion being legal in the first trimester, as well as exceptions for rape, incest, health of the mother, and fetal abnormality, and yet the “pro-life” movement rejects all of these. Why aren’t “pro-life” elitists concerned with how Americans actually want to live?
” The reason the Pro-life movement is predominantly conservative is very simple. Most conservatives are sensibly conservative. They want to conserve good things such as babies and, yes, a clean environment, believe it or not. The stereotype of the greedy, self-centered conservative is much rarer than it has been portrayed.
However, many of the liberals have wandered far afield in the last century, to become libertine. They are so all-consumed with rights that they don’t consider the rights of those they’re not focussed on. They will step all over them for their cause.”
Maybe its true and liberals are just bad people. It doesn’t mean that they have to be pro-choice though. I believe a lot of people can be convinced to support pro-life even if they don’t support the other conservative positions.
Conservatives are this, liberals are that. It’s all so much hogwash. I can’t think of a single person I know IRL that fits neatly into the liberal or conservative label on 100% of the issues. I really think using labels like that hurts us all. We focus on our assumptions of what a person thinks/believes/does based on however we define the label. All those labels do is cause a breakdown in communication and makes it easier for us to treat other people like cr@p, IMO. I’m conservative on some issues and liberal on others, but people that know my pro-life stance and assume I’m conservative on every issue make a faulty assumption.
Jack,
That’s the difference between most conservatives and liberals. We don’t believe most liberals are bad people – just misguided. But listen to the protesters in Texas, and just about any Democrat in Congress. They think we’re bad, racist, misogynist, “homosexualphobes”.
And Lrning is right. No one is strictly one or the other. I’ve always been very liberal at handing out money to family members. I would just like to conserve it from government misuse. :)
I think a lot of conservatives think that liberals are bad people. At least that is what comes across and gets internalized. But I could be wrong.
Yes, Jack. You could be wrong. We all tend to get touchy when people don’t agree with us. But that’s because we actually care about things. I wouldn’t want to be someone who just went through life always saying, “Whatever.”
joan says:
July 4, 2013 at 3:44 pm
Why aren’t “pro-life” elitists concerned with how Americans actually want to live?
Pro-lifers are concerned with the rights and dignity of the children who are murdered by abortion.
Hitler wanted to live a world free of Jews, and no doubt there are people who want to live a world free of Joan. Fortunately, Joan has legal protection against such people, and the Christian and atheist worlds aligned to defeat the great killer of Jews.
In the same way, we are fighting against the abortion industry to restore legal protections to children in the womb, and to offer alternatives to the desperate women whom the abortion industry prey upon. We also offer loving care and healing to the women who are victims of abortion.
I think some liberals are bad people and some are good people. My sister-in-law is very liberal but she is pro-life (yet she votes for scum like Obama) and is very generous with her money and supports a lot of great causes like make-a-wish and injured soldiers charities. She would give her shirt off her back to anyone.
So I know there are good liberals and there are bad much as I suspect conservatives are. I have to check this Kirsten woman out. I have heard of her but didn’t know she was so even keeled. I can respect that even if i might disagree with her on many things.
“(yet she votes for scum like Obama)”
Classy.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Lrning! I wish I saw this more, both on this site and some “liberal” ones I frequent. So much time wasted stereotyping people when we could spend that time learning about others’ viewpoints.
When you stop to rationally consider it, it’s very true that so few people fit into the stereotypes neatly.
Kirsten Powers is great but she would not be heard without FOX. She is probably losing other media opportunities by being outspokenly pro-life and able to puncture the mass media’s balloons with clear arguments.