Pro-choice singer activist finds common ground with pro-life counterparts
by Carder
Let me tell you a story.
I was vagabonding, just released from an arrest in Dallas in 1984, at the Republican National Convention. I was making my way out of that protest toward New York City, and I made a detour to Madison, Wisconsin.
On the campus there, I saw older women protesting something, and there was a circle of students around them. When I got closer I saw coat hangers on the ground. I recognized that these older women were protesting against abortion. So I went up to one of the older women and I asked her, “What is it about this issue that makes you so passionate that you could come out on the streets to protest? Protesting is supposed to be my job.”
The woman’s response was very simple. She said, “because I believe abortion is murder.”
A light bulb turned on over my head, because I realized we had more in common than we had differences. I told her, “The next time you see me fighting against this war, this police action, this invasion, this occupation, if you ask me the same question, I’ll tell you because I believe war is murder.” I realized we have to find common ground. I have to respect her sanctity of life, and she has to respect mine.
To me, that is radical.
~ Pro-choice singer activist Michelle Shocked on her encounter with committed pro-life activists back in the 1980s, via American Thinker, June 25
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.
Protesting is the “job” of every person who encounters an injustice, in whatever form. That means it’s everyone’s job; there are just a lot of slackers out there!
I have always respected authentic war protestors. They have respect for life as the motive for their actions.
But there are a lot of fake protestors out there, parasites who spoil the message of the authentic protestors.
The “anti-war” protestors who disappeared right after Obama got elected? — fake.
The pro-borts who taunt us here, saying “If you’re so pro-life, why don’t you vote for (pro-bort) Democrats instead of “pro-war” Republicans?” — fake.
Michelle Shocked should be very angry with those who betray her movement. (We are merely disgusted, since we know the hearts of pro-borts and political opportunists.)
Abortion kills a million innocent American children every year. There have not yet been that many deaths in Iraqi military campaigns over the last four presidents combined, including both enemy combatants and collateral damage to innocent civilians.
So as awful as war is, abortion is a much larger problem. We do not apologize for focusing our passion toward the biggest injustice.
To the authentic anti-war protestors: Let us celebrate our common ground! If your favorite anti-war candidate is pro-abortion, urge him to be consistent and respect life.
Well thats good that she agreed she should respect the woman/women but is it the first time shes seen or heard of an anti abortion protest? Ive seen pro choicers assembled with their ‘Honk For Choice” signs along with hangers on signs with lines through them. We Wont Go Back. I dont respect their position but they have a right to protest.
“I have always respected authentic war protestors”
There are no anti war protesters.
“There are no anti war protesters.”
What?
“anti war” protesters never protested the NVA’s extermination campaign against the Montagnards, a campaign that continues to this day,they did not protest Iraq’s invasion of kuwait, they are not protesting the war in Syria or the ISIS in Iraq now, there are no anti war protesters, there are only anti some war protesters.
Cool. I grew up an anti-war protester. As an adult, I gravitated to pro-life stuff. It’s all pro-life to me. People on the left and the right need to know that the anti-war protesters and the pro-life protester have a lot more in common than planned parenthood would ever want to admit.
Okay, thanks for the clarification U-104.