New Stanek poll: Does Emily Letts’ abortion video help or hurt the pro-choice movement?

I have a new poll question up:

Do you think Emily Letts’ “abortion video” helps or hurts the pro-choice movement?

Vote on the lower right side of the home page.

Regarding the last poll, the middle top vote getter would seemingly fall into the category, “Which of these things is not like the others?” don’t you think?

Poll: Who should be 2016 Republican nominee for president?

Congrats to Senator Rick Santorum for winning our straw poll!

As always, make comments to either the previous or current poll here, not on the poll site.

Pro-life daily vid: Abortion does not look like Emily’s Letts’ video

emily-letts-abortionby Kelli

Emily Letts, who claims to have filmed her own abortion at her employer, Cherry Hill Women’s Center, is the topic of a new rebuttal video released by the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform. CBR says Letts and her abortion clinic employer “created their YouTube video as a disingenuous sales pitch.” The group’s intent in releasing this rebuttal is “to ensure women are not deceived regarding the humanity of their baby or the inhumanity of the abortion which Cherry Hill Women’s Center is trying to sell them.”

CBR wrote in an email:

Elizabeth Barnes, Executive Director of the Cherry Hill Women’s Center and the Philadelphia Women’s Center, is Ms. Letts’ co-conspirator in this abortion industry infomercial. She is also on YouTube proclaiming that “… we need to see more images in the media of women who choose abortion and it provides them a pathway to a new and better life.” CBR replies that what we actually need are more images in the media of dismembered babies for whom abortion provided a barbaric end to life.

The video contains footage from an actual abortion procedure juxtaposed with Emily Letts’ remarks after her abortion.

WARNING: Extremely graphic; contains nudity.

[youtube]http://youtu.be/xr_P4uIfhyU[/youtube]

Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions.

[HT: Jill; photo via theolivebranchreport.com]

Pro-life video of the day: “Abandoned” author rebuts Letts’ abortion video

by Kelli

Professor Monica Migliorino Miller, director of Citizens for a Pro-life Society and author of Abandoned: The Untold Story of the Abortion Wars, responds to Emily Letts’ viral video in which she purportedly films herself having an abortion.

Miller rightly points out that we weren’t shown an abortion. We were shown Letts’ face – and nothing more:

[youtube]http://youtu.be/CJgrGwrBklg[/youtube]

Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions.

New Stanek poll: How often does your pastor preach against abortion?

I have a new poll question up:

How often does your pastor preach against abortion annually?

Most pro-lifers I know complain their pastor doesn’t talk about the abortion issue enough. So how often is that? Vote on the lower right side of the home page.

(Is your pastor resistant? Have him/her read what Franklin Graham thinks.)

In the last poll, 90% thought Emily Letts’ “abortion video” damaged the pro-abortion brand…

Emily Letts poll - abortion video hurt pro-choice movement

As always, make comments to either the previous or current poll here, not on the poll site.

Stanek wkend Q: Is the push for unconditional acceptance of abortion hurting or helping the pro-choice side?

Josie Cunningham Emily Letts abortionColumnist Eva Wiseman wrote at The Guardian wrote:

Pro-choicers are facing some uncomfortable truths….

When, at the end of April, escort, aspiring glamour model and mother-of-two Josie Cunningham [pictured top right] told the Sunday Mirror she was planning an abortion to ensure her place on Big Brother, there was mild uproar. The earliest response was from Mirror readers, 93% of whom said they’d boycott Big Brother if she appeared on the show… These alongside disgusted tweets from high-profile doctors and liberal commentators….

A week or so later, a YouTube video of an abortion went viral. The clip, by 25-year-old abortion counsellor Emily Letts [pictured bottom right], focuses on her face as she breathes, calmly, through the short procedure. At the end she says: “I feel good.”…

Again, the reaction has been fierce – both from anti-abortion protestors… and from those who are passionately pro-choice….

For me? The reactions have illustrated a widening gap between the theory of being pro-choice and the real, day-to-day “Oh sh**… oh well” of abortion….

These two cases have brought uncomfortable truths about many pro-choicers’ feelings to the surface. They’ve shown that many believe that not only are there right and wrong reasons to get an abortion but that women’s (legal, considered) decisions are up for examination….

There is no right or wrong reason for a woman to get an abortion, and there is no right or wrong way for her to feel about it. For pro-choicers, there should be no confusion.

Similarly, columnist Jessica Valenti wrote at The Guardian:

I think abortion should be legal without any restrictions - no parental consent laws, no mandated ultrasounds, no waiting periods, no bans on late term abortions and no bans on federal funding for abortion….

If that were the law of the land, it would also mean an end to rape and incest exceptions - because we wouldn’t need them. Women wouldn’t (and shouldn’t) have to prove that their abortion is of the “acceptable” variety. We wouldn’t (and shouldn’t) have to pretend that women who are forced into sex are somehow more deserving of medical care than women who chose to have sex. We could rid ourselves of the hierarchy of “good” and “bad” abortions.

I particularly found Valenti’s thoughts on the rape/incest exception quite interesting.

It’s true that to decry abortion in any way is to cast judgment on the act itself.

Is it possible to expect people who consider themselves “pro-choice” to reach this level of acceptance? Or is pushing this level of acceptance working in favor of the pro-life position?

 

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Could your hormonal contraceptive disable or kill you? (YES)

 
Emily Letts opposes hormonal birth control pillRemember Emily Letts, the woman who filmed her own abortion?

Letts was willing to engage in unprotected hook-up sex, and willing to submit to an abortion, but one thing even she considered too risky was the birth control pill, as she explained to Cosmopolitan:

I’m a sex educator, and I love talking about birth control. Before this experience, hormonal birth control scared me because of complications I’d heard about from friends - gaining weight, depression, etc…. [and] I wasn’t super interested in putting hormones in my body.

Letts was on to something, which in this day and age of organic, homeopathic lifestyles, appears to be a growing concern among young women, including celebrities Mayim Bialik and Ricki Lake.

And rightfully so. Hormonal contraceptives - which includes the Pill, patch, ring, implant, IUD, and shot – are ridden with all sorts of dangers, such as (all information below compiled on pdf here):

  • Yaz and Yasmin bc pill: 13,000+ injury lawsuits filed, DrugNews, March 2014
  • Yaz and Yasmin bc pill suspected in 23 deaths, CBC News, June 2013
  • Beyoz bc pill: can cause increased blood clots, new FDA warning, December 2011
  • AIIMS study finds 9.5 times increased risk of breast cancer if taking bc pill, January 2014
  • Even low-dose estrogen pills increase risk of stroke by 2 times: American Heart Association, 2004 and 2012
  •  Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology issued an urgent warning to women taking bc pill after finding it killed 11 women and caused 350+ side effects in 5-yr study, December 2013
  • Nuva Ring users 6.5 times increased risk of blood clots, Decoded Science, December 2013
  • Mirena IUD: 600+ lawsuits filed for perforated uterus; 70,000 adverse events since 2000, The Legal Examiner, December 2013
  • World Health Organization’s IARC lists combined contraceptives as a Group 1 carcinogen

On June 7, the American Life League will hold its fifth annual Protest the Pill Day to draw attention to the danger hormonal contraception poses to both women and babies.

The Pill Kills Day 2014

Hormonal contraceptives can stop a pregnancy by aborting a 5-9 day old baby before s/he attaches to the wall of the uterus. In addition, hormonal contraceptives are poisonous to women.

June 7 is an ominous day, the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1965 Griswold v Connecticut decision, which legalized contraceptive use by finding a “right to privacy” in the Constitution, thereby opening the door to the 1973 Roe v Wade decision.

ALL is sponsoring informational protests outside Planned Parenthoods or abortion/contraception businesses and pharmacies. Find planning tips and a flyer here.

I am one of several sponsors of this event. Please help us educate women that hormonal contraceptives are extremely dangerous to their health.

Pro-life vid of day: Abortion snuff film bothers even lib CNN pundits

by Jill

emily_lettsEmily Letts’ abortion video* has been around a couple months, but it’s getting scrutiny now due to an essay she just had published in Cosmopolitan, which included this gem:

I remember breathing and humming through it like I was giving birth. I know that sounds weird, but to me, this was as birth-like as it could be. It will always be a special memory for me. I still have my sonogram, and if my apartment were to catch fire, it would be the first thing I’d grab.

Grabbing the precious sonogram of the baby you murdered? I can’t fathom the thinking. But I’m not the only one. CNN’s Dr. Drew and an all woman pro-choice panel interviewed Letts on May 6, and they let her have it, asking questions seemingly from the mouths of pro-lifers. (Except, “Did you get pregnant on purpose?” I wouldn’t even have thought of that. Perhaps I should have.)…

*In actuality, this was not an “abortion video.” If was a self-absorbed facial close-up by the perpetrator. Live Action’s Lila Rose noted:

She claims to film an abortion, but that is the one thing we don’t see. We don’t see the powerful suction machine ripping the developing embryo from the safe harbor of Letts’s uterus. We don’t see the child’s delicate arm and leg buds ripped apart by the force of the suction tube, or the child’s body parts floating afterward in a pool of blood and amniotic fluid in a medical receptacle.

All we see is Letts’s smile, not her victim. In a society that religiously ignores the victim, we will never achieve lasting peace…. a society that has come to embrace the slaughter of a child as “empowerment.”

Pro-abort opines: Pro-lifers on Jill Stanek not exactly “pro-lifey”

Stanekby Carder

Ah, I know. It was the last thing you wanted to read. Her name is associated with being a great martyr for the pro-choice/pro-access cause, or she is the demon-come-lately to anti-choicers, a creature of the night with no soul, the high priestess of child sacrifice. Heck, I can’t even print most of the threats this woman has received.

Even the most “pro-lifey” of all the “pro-lifers” on Jill Stanek’s site can’t help but comment that due to the emotional issue of abortion, death threats are to only be expected. Not sure how you file that under “pro-life,” but we all know the minds of antis are capable of the great mental gymnastics needed to justify horrible behavior in the name of Jesus.

~ KYBorn admonishing commenters on Jill Stanek.com over the Emily Letts abortion video controversy, Every Saturday Morning, June 8


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