Stanek and “guerilla warfare”
Because I was on vacation in January I never got a chance to mention Newsweek quoted me in a piece it did on the anniversary of Roe v Wade:
“He’s [Obama] got the House, he’s got the Senate, so I think we may go more guerilla warfare, or go back to working harder on your own turf, protesting at your abortion clinic in your town,” says Jill Stanek, a prominent pro-life blogger.
There was more, but that was the germane part to this post.
So pro-aborts have taken my “guerilla warfare” statement and run with it. Again, because I was on vacation, I didn’t get a chance to post this NARAL email alert either…
But NARAL today referred to it again, footnoting to the Newsweek piece, giving me the hook for discussion. Click to enlarge:
So apparently NARAL has promoted my comment to permanent status. I knew as soon as I spoke pro-aborts would use it somehow. But humbly I bow at its enduring fame.
And congrats to Personhood USA!
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.
NARAL claims to stand up for women.
Actually they stand for a right for women to choose death of the unborn.
Forget the guerilla.
It’s going to take a civil war to eliminate abortion just as it took a civil war to eliminate slavery.
xppc, 2:35PM
I remember when Bill Clinton was accused of sexual assault. Kate Michelman of NARAL advised we all take a deep breath and not overreact.
Odd that she had an entirely different reaction when conservative justice Clarence Thomas was accused of, at worst, some lousy pick up lines.
Far be it from me to suggest that Clinton’s support of abortion, as opposed to Thomas’ opposition to abortion, had anything to do with the difference in Ms.Michelman’s reactions to the accusations.
You don’t reduce abortions by handing out birth control like its candy. You teach young men to respect themselves and the women in their lives. You teach young women self esteem and respecting their bodies. You explain the social and emotional consequences of pre-martial sex in a non preachy way. You help women recognize abuse in a relationship and help them break out of it (many abortions happen because women in abusive relationships are told to abort or the man will do something to them). You teach men and women to value marriage and the unbreakable bond that creates children.
Above all else: you educate with real scientific images (3D, 4D) of children in the womb. There’s nothing else like seeing a baby on the ultrasound screen. Or feeling a baby kick or hiccup (I heard my 9 1/2 year old niece hiccup in the womb).
If by “guerilla warfare” means going down to the grassroots level and hitting them where it hurts (their pocketbooks)….Hell, Yeah!!!
Hisman: “It’s going to take a civil war to eliminate abortion just as it took a civil war to eliminate slavery.”
Id support that in an instant.
RSD, lol! Woot!
You know what, I am about at the boiling point here. Obama and company seem intent on destroying our country in 90 days. It is absurd and insane and we have got to somehow stop this maddness. Calling our congresspeople does nothing. Protests do nothing. As we’re seeing in CA today, voting does nothing.
We have to figure out a non-violent way to stop Obama’s assault on our country. Any ideas?
I never did understand NARAL. They seem like (they attempt to be) kind people so long as you pretend that some ideas are dangerous and free speech is superfluos. Perhaps they just need someone who loves them just like us all? I would recommend something non-violent at all times (Gandhi’s my hero!) and I would always say that we should use our words. Words can be hurtful, so I don’t mean throwing around tirades, but…if you know that abortion is wrong, if you know that it is not a right to own another human being, then you mustn’t give up and you must protest and keeping hoping that God will act. You keep loving people, whether they are abortion survivors or postabortive women. It’s a matter of, eventually, culture must change first. Education and interpersonal concern shape culture. A civil war would be devastating, though I understand where you’re coming from and know that you have a point in referencing history (it is repeating itself). Maybe then we must a). ignore people who take quotes out of context and b). continue to help women and children.
I should be so flattered if I were you, Mrs. Stanek. You’ve been enshrined in the hall of fame! Perhaps this is a good sign: when even NARAL is out of lies to keep telling the public so they resort to attacking pro-life movements based on the supporter and not the movement’s arguments. I think we’ve hit the light at the end of the tunnel.
“It’s going to take a civil war to eliminate abortion just as it took a civil war to eliminate slavery.”
Not sure how that would work, though, as there aren’t abortion and no-abortion states like there were slave states and free states.
“Hisman: “It’s going to take a civil war to eliminate abortion just as it took a civil war to eliminate slavery.”
Id support that in an instant.”
So would I.
I have many male friends that have stated the same to me as of late. They would support and fight for the unborn.
Civil war! I guess you have no stronger way to state the extent of your horror for induced abortion. You are certainly making your point, if you really mean it. But if you say it, you had better mean it.
As we all know, all war is horrible, but civil war is the worst. Of course, taken to the individual level, civil war seems already to be a present reality in the womb. Worse than civil war, it’s genocide, wholesale extermination of the defenceless. The baby doesn’t stand a chance once hostilities commence.
It’s my understanding that emancipation was merely a by-product of the American Civil War. The war was really fought over other matters, and perhaps the vice of slavery became part of the North’s moral justification for its attack on the Confederacy.
Much as I would love to agree on the Civil War suggestion for the cause of the unborn…I believe a non-violent solution would be better.
Enough blood has already been shed in this fight against the Culture of Death and adding to the body counts will not win us anything.
We need a change of heart in our culture that starts at the grassroots level. Specifically, the base of society….the family. We need to educate OUR young in what is moral and good. As JP2 said, “the youth is the hope of a nation”
The liberal, pro-abort generation is dying. We cannot even hope to change their minds/ hearts. They are killing off their young and are not even reproducing. The homosexual lifestyle does NOT and CANNOT procreate w/o going for artificial means. They know this and that is why they are actively shoving their way of thinking and their way of life to the next generation of youth.
We just need to stand our ground and not give in.
We need to reach out to the young, protect them and teach them early. No matter what immoral laws come out of Washington or whatever local government…it really doesn’t matter.
And we need to trust..and I mean REALLY trust in Divine Mercy that everything will fall into place in HIS time..not ours…we just need to be faithful to the cause.
I agree, I dont think we NEED anything violent. I think there is a peaceful way to solve the problems. But if came down to it…
Yeah, I’m all for being passionate in your beliefs, but a Civil War would mean many, many deaths, which kind of goes against the values of a Culture of Life…
I’m a non-violence kind of gal myself :)
Jon 10:29am
You are correct. There were a number of factors contributing to the Civil War and historians have argued as to what truly motivated Lincoln to emancipate the slaves. Some have indeed argued that it was to give some “morality” to an intensely unpopular war.
People are unaware that blacks and Native Americans also served in the Confederacy.
There’s a book, and the name escapes me, but its something about the politically incorrect account of the Civil War. Some fascinating things you don’t read in the history books.
This whole anti-abortion thing is really about
ones own self importance. The issue shouldn’t
be about just abortion and the sanctity of life,
but what kind of life, the quality of life.
To hamper research that could improve the lives
of those who have a consciousness over some multi-cellular glob is stupid.
The issue shouldn’t be just about abortion
but rather who’s getting aborted. I for one
could care less how many black and brown babies
are aborted because it will in the long run save
lives what with less murders and crack-heads coming into the world. We need to strive for quality not just quanity.