Texas abortion allies try to “recapture the energy” they said they’d never lose
Would the magic last?
Three weeks after her infamous June 25, 2013, 11-hour filibuster, climaxing days of demonstrations by proponents on both sides of the abortion issue, Texas State Senator Wendy Davis was asked that by a reporter at The Texas Observer. She responded to the affirmative:
[M]illennial generation women are coming and speaking to me about how empowered they feel right now. I think if we had made every effort to try and make that happen, we never could have come up with the recipe.
What’s been so beautiful about this is it was organic and real, and therefore incredibly meaningful for these young women. They are owning the way they feel right now, and I expect that it’s the beginning for a new momentum. I really believe that….
I would be surprised to see it go away….
There is a unique energy behind it. I’ve never experienced anything like it in my public service life of 15 years. So I think it will sustain. I honestly think it will grow, because there is an active energy trying to make sure that happens.
Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards, in a July 13, 2013, fundraising email:
P.E.A.C.E. Initiative’s Patricia Castillo, speaking at a July 11, 2013, pro-abortion rally after it became clear the pro-life legislation would be signed into law, as quoted by MySanAntonio.com:
“We need to be heard in Austin every day. We cannot stand for this. I hope they know they’ve woken the sleeping giant of men and women working together to not stand for this.”
Castillo ended by leading the crowd in a chant: “We procreate faster than you legislate!”
Coming from a pro-abortion crowd that chant made no sense, but whatev.
The point is that for the first time in probably 40-45 years, when energy sparked by the women’s liberation movement protests of the late 1960’s-early 1970’s helped legalize abortion, activists were feeling similar energy and clinging to it, hoping it might work in reverse and rekindle that same movement, now aging and dying.
The abortion industry has sponsored two national marches since that time, in 1992 and 2004 (something pro-lifers do every year). But those have never carried with them the lingering sense of nostalgia, an iconic moment, that abortion proponents are describing as the one-year anniversary of the Austin protests approaches.
It’s no wonder Davis pines for the past, since she is losing by 12 points in the polls for governor (up from 11 points in February) against pro-lifer Greg Abbott (who is also leading by 10 points among women).
But mountaintop experiences are just that, highs with plateaus and lows in between. A movement cannot rely on emotion for the long haul. Nevertheless, abortion backers are trying. From Statesman.com, July 17:
Five abortion-rights activist groups announced Tuesday a campaign designed to rekindle the activism surrounding last year’s fight over stricter abortion regulations….
The focus of the new campaign is a website, fightbacktx.com… [which] asks the protesters and like-minded Texans to sign a pledge - and provide contact information - recommitting to the fight against abortion restrictions.
Last summer’s legislative battle “awakened a sleeping giant,” said Heather Busby, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Texas….
That ”sleeping giant” has obviously gone back to bed; otherwise it wouldn’t need to “rekindle” and “recommit.” More from the Houston Chronicle:
Nearly a year after thousands of abortion-rights activists brought the Texas Legislature to a standstill, a coalition of liberal groups announced a campaign Tuesday to “recapture the energy” of the movement….
The new campaign asks abortion-rights supporters to “dust off their orange,” a reference to the color worn last summer….
But that orange wouldn’t need “dusting off” had it not so quickly been hung and forgotten in the back of a closet.
And so it is that the abortion movement has shown itself to be the hare, with bursts of excitement that peter out, while the pro-life movement is the tortoise.
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.
What is Planned Parenthood doing? Does anyone know? Are they loading pink buses from all over the country? Or are they minding their expense accounts, and writing off Texas as a permanent loss?
This pro-abortion event won’t be anything near the size of the March For Life, but it will receive 100 times the media coverage.
We really need a pro-life gathering close by that outnumbers the pro-borts in Texas.
More of that “rekindle” garbage was perpetuated at a PP Gulf Coast fundraiser recently –> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyD_j_phxlo
“I can still hear the thunderous roar of all the courageous women and men who wouldn’t back down.”
Uhhh. That’s the babies screaming for justice.
Which babies screaming for justice?
Young babies may scream for many things, ‘justice’ wouldn’t be on their radar.
If you mean fetuses then no, they aren’t screaming.
It’s a poetic expression, Reality.
Murdered victims don’t actually “scream” for justice in the literal, noisy sense.
I suppose people are always explaining jokes to you, too. You just don’t seem to get it.
Poetic expressions have at least a modicum of roots in reality Del.
Or was it a joke?
Lol corageous roar of the women who wouldnt back down? What in the world is so corageous about laying splayed on a table while some half baked inept “doctor” shoves sharp objects into your cervix and hacks at your womb until your baby is dead? What a bunch of wing dings. The older group look like the Manson women.
Not to mention your baby is dead. The deadbeat dad is off the hook for child support…( unless he didnt want you to abort) and now youre going to have all kinds of emotional problems. A true milestone ladies! They have totally set us back and keep doing so. Just listen to feminist Lindy West and one of her nutty rants.
Silent scream. If a tree falls in the woods . . .
‘In for the long run’ with themselves. But the pro-aborts do not give a damned for children because children are too much of a burden. Pro-aborts are heathen.
We still need to stay on topic and keep asking Abortion Barbie and her Code Pink **** Patrol, “Why do you defend post-viability abortions, done in substandard facilities, by fly-by-night quacks who can’t even get hospital privileges?”
Sunsets are beautiful, killing babies is not. These people are depraved.
I would not put much store in the polls right now as they are bound to tighten up. But its interesting that Abortion Barbie is down by ten points among women. When are these proaborts going to learn that they don’t speak for all of us?
I still love the pathetic desperation of their banner’s slogan, “IN FOR THE LONG RUN.”
I recommend something more fitting, like “FIGHT TO THE DEATH.”
“But the pro-aborts do not give a damned for children because children are too much of a burden.” – well that’s not right now is it. Pro-choice people have children. You know, the ones they choose to have, who they hold and love dearly. The ones who aren’t a burden.
“Pro-aborts are heathen.” – that’s not accurate either.
“Pro-choice people have children. You know, the ones they choose to have, who they hold and love dearly. The ones who aren’t a burden.”
lol. That should be a ‘quote of the day’.
I agree, it should. It is clear and unequivocal. Nice to see you can find the truth sometimes.
Or are you of the mindset that pro-choice folk don’t have children? Or that the children we have are chosen, not imposed and are therefore not a burden? And so we then have a greater propensity to nurture them? What might cause you to think otherwise?
Yeah, abortion has really solved that nasty child abuse problem because all those people who chose or support abortion love and cherish their wanted children who are no burden. That really explains the case I once had of a mother who after two abortions not only failed to protect her chosen five month old daughter from getting 27 broken bones but could not get the baby to bond with her.
One case, wow. Any examination of other factors likely to be the true cause? I’ll bet things would have gone pretty much the same way even if she hadn’t had abortions. Maybe two more children would have been affected if she hadn’t. Who knows. Was number three chosen or did she find herself unable to abort for some reason? How much more child abuse might there be if abortion wasn’t available? Who knows.
Abortion is the dismembering and killing of the young. It is the abuse of children in the womb.
I’ll put that in the same category as your “But the pro-aborts do not give a damned for children because children are too much of a burden.” and “Pro-aborts are heathen.” then shall I truthseeker.
Reality says:
“Which babies screaming for justice?
Young babies may scream for many things, ‘justice’ wouldn’t be on their radar.
If you mean fetuses then no, they aren’t screaming.”
Reality makes a great point. These babies are defenseless. They cannot access the political system, the court system, or otherwise fend for themselves.
That is why they are easy victims, and why others, with the ability to advocate, need to stick up for them.
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