Infighting: Edgy abortion group flusters other abortion groups
It’s too early to tell whether pro-abortion world is imploding, but there sure have been plenty of fireworks lately.
I’ve written two posts in recent days on a new phenomenon – abortion groups publicly challenging the big kahuna, Planned Parenthood, something heretofore unheard of.
In that case the charge was racism. Since then it appears the floodgate has opened. Now add a complaint by pro-abortion Exhale’s Aspen Baker, who singled out Planned Parenthood for its “narrow view” ignoring abortion regret, and a complaint by California NOW for Planned Parenthood getting sidetracked on voter ID laws.
I’ve simply never seen anything like this. Abortion groups are usually very good about keeping their fights internal.
In addition, abortion groups are now publicly uniting against one of their own, Stop Patriarchy. The group is being blackballed for a number of fascinating reasons, foremost that Stop Patriarchy opposes porn and prostitution as degrading to women (because everyone knows they’re not), and uses slavery language (saying “forced pregnancy is female enslavement” and hosting a “Freedom Ride” in Texas).
Led by Texans for Reproductive Justice, abortion proponents further complain that Stop Patriarchy is terrorizing them, boo-hoo, “us[ing] intimidation and disruption to upset and silence those who disagree with them,” and that Stop Patriarchy [warning: link vulgar] “hijack[ed] the Texas filibuster anniversary party” to siphon donations away from other groups.
Horrors, Stop Patriarchy is also Islamophobic (because being forced to don burqas - and having one’s nose cut off if giving any lip about it – is so worthy of feminist defense), homophobic and transphobic (for not making an exception in its opposition to porn for queer or alternative porn), and is affiliated with Communists (as if liberals don’t share the same beliefs, hello, Occupy Wall Street, although it is interesting that terrorist Bill Ayers signed Stop Patriarchy’s ”Stop Forced Motherhood” petition).
Whatever, I say have at it. The more infighting the better, obviously.
I will say as an objective observer that Stop Patriarchy rallies are a bit embarrassing. The group has an apparent penchant for the never-ending echo-chant…
[youtube]http://youtu.be/N-fnbZ_E5F8[/youtube]
That video was shot at an August 7 Stop Patriarchy rally in Austin, Texas, with an epic counter-protest by Love of Truth Ministries and Created Equal.
All of these episodes point to another problem within the abortion movement, that of being forced by political correctness to take up an array of causes aside from abortion – LGBQT (note the other side no longer uses the term “pregnant woman,” which offends transgender folk, but instead says “pregnant person”), pro-defense of any religion not Christian, prostitution, porn, global warming, environmentalism, voter ID, fair wages, and tampon justice, to name just some.
Meanwhile, the pro-life movement remains focused like a laser beam on blocking the culture of death, the leading culprit of which is abortion.
Abortion advocates try their best to divert our attention away from abortion and life issues. Sure, most of us are personally involved in related issues, but as a movement we are not distracted.
Again, have at it, pro-aborts. Dissension and dilution are good.
[HT for petition: Saynsumthn’s Blog; top photo via Houston Press; second photo, of “Broadband Guerrilla Girls” performing at a Stop Patriarchy rally, via ggbb.org; bottom photo via revcom.us]
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.
Okay, I got 43 seconds into the echo-chant video and had to stop. That’s freaky.
lol!
Abortion crazies want ‘Free Abortion on Demand!’ Good luck getting Planned Parenthood to agree to that.
Okay is it my age…I am getting so confused. Who are these people??
I agree, Jill. Like I said before, knock yourself out, ladies — I mean female persons — I mean womyn — or carbon entities with vaginas, etc. etc. . .
Hi Cranky Catholic,
“Free” Abortion on Demand means someone else is footing the bill. Certainly these ladies should be more than happy to pool their funds, organize fundraisers, or work two jobs so as to help provide “free” abortion.
I haven’t figured out what this in-fighting means.
Do these people give money to Planned Parenthood?
Do they behave badly in public and make all the pro-borts look bad?
Will this distract the pro-bort lobbyists and discourage their activist base?
Will this expose the pro-porn and pro-prostitution and pro-promiscuity agenda of Planned Parenthood?
Will this invite the general public to engage and discuss abortion more?
I’m enjoying the shadenfreude, but is there a way this could back-fire to hurt the culture and strengthen abortion?
Are there opportunities here that we should recognize?
I’m stumped.
I don’t understand why some of these bort women do not support prostitution and porn. If a woman has an absolute right to her body, she should be able to sell it, ork in the porn industry, or be a stripper. Some women actually enjoy being sex workers. I’m a strong proponent of free speech but I think porn is disgusting and can be harmful. I have a male relative who has been addicted to porn for YEARS. He has spent thousands of dollars on it and he is not wealthy. He’s in his fifties now and still wants a family but he has never had a serious long term relationship with a woman. He has other issues, but I’m sure his obsession with porn doesn’t help his romantic prospects.
It’s just another indication of how far our world is falling into a dark morass of depravity. Consider also the horrific slaughter of women and children in Iraq.
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Hi Ed. How are you my friend? What you have said is so true and related in the theme of the Bible John 3:16-17 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes on Him should not perish (eternal death and separation from God) but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through Him might be saved.” I am so glad that I am a “whosoever” and that Jesus is the remedy and cure for my sins. Not PC, not popular, not fluff, not tickling to the ears but “the way, the truth and the life”. Many prayers are needed for our nation, our world, for the lost, for the persecuted, for saving the lives of precious innocent unborn babies but especially prayers for the church because we have left our “first love”. May God help us.
Good point phillymiss,
These PA women can’t have it both ways. Either women can do what they want with their bodies or they can’t.
You’re absolutely right. Not every woman in the sex and porn business is a victim. Some choose to be. Aren’t these PA women all about freedom of choice?
This discussion has taken an odd turn.
Abortion is like sex work.
Abortion clinics are like strip bars and massage parlors.
The cultural tolerance of abortion and sex work creates an environment where women are often used, abused, treated as objects, and coerced. Young girls and women are trafficked into the world of sex work and abortions.
Yes…. Some women like their sex work and abortions, and feel no regrets…. or come to regret it much later, after several years. These do not justify the women who are being hurt now by a culture that objectifies women.
And there is all the collateral damage. The dead children; the children who grow up amongst the johns and multiple sleazy boyfriends. The mothers and fathers who cry for their daughters. The drug use. The depression and suicides.
The crucial difference is, if anything, prolifers must sacrifice their blood and treasure for our movement. Pro-aborts are either sacrificing someone else, or in the case of Planned Parenthood, have an economic stake in the issue. As abortion has become polarized by ideology and party, in order to keep their economic stake and dependence on the government, Planned Parenthood has become a de facto arm of the Democratic Party. They can no longer remain a single-issue group, both for reasons of tactics, but also because they need to hitch their wagon to a political party. Prolifers care about children. Pro-aborts like Stop Patriarchy believe abortion is a way for the proletarian mass of woman to struggle against their capitalist masters and overthrow them in violent revolution to achieve an egalitarian utopia. Planned Parenthood and Margaret Sanger have always professed that core ethic somewhat, but for them, the real motivation is sex free of constraints.
@Del, I was NOT saying I condone sex work, quite the contrary. I find it sickening. I just was saying that I find it odd that these pro-abort women are against porn and prostitution. If women have an absolute right to bodily autonomy, sex work should not be off limits. If a woman wants to wear a burka, she should be able too as well. After all, its her body!
@Mary, you are right about sex workers. Many women in the industry are exploited and abused but some are not. In college I was going to do a paper about how prostitution has moved to the internet, but I had to abandon the project because there were very few women that would talk to me — they thought I was “LE” (law enforcement). These weren’t streetwalkers, they were higher level “escorts.” Anyway, I talked to one woman in her forties who said she was a “people person” and enjoyed being an “escort” (escorts resent being called prostitutes, they say they are charging for their time –um, okay). She had even put her daughter through nursing school with her earnings. She told me that on some days she made 1500 — she charged $300.00 an hour so do the math. I found it fascinating in a perverse way.
Stop Patriarchy is more extreme than most pro-choice groups. Liberals are not Communists, and being Islamaphobic is different from being against the Taliban and the pre-medieval approach to human rights in the Middle East. Burqas, females as possessions, lack of mundane rights such as voting and extreme punishments are not religious criticisms, they are cultural. The belief system of Islam is much more feminist. The Qu’ran states that women should be allowed to vote and own property and are equal to men, and nowhere does it talk of women needing to be covered head to toe. So it’s valid to criticize an organization for being against the religion itself.
Stop Patriarchy also harasses nuns, priests and other Catholic figures.
“The Qu’ran states that women should be allowed to vote and own property and are equal to men, and nowhere does it talk of women needing to be covered head to toe.”
You are right. FGM (female genital mutilation), which I find barbaric, is not in the Koran either. There is nothing “wrong” with womens genitalia that has to be “corrected” by mutilation.
It DOES say that women should dress modestly, but being covered from head to toe is a cultural thing. I see Muslims (mostly black women) covered from heat to toe in black even in the summer. Some even wear black gloves. It amazes me that they don’t pass out, because it gets very hot here. At the pool at the Y I go to there are some Muslim women. They go in the water with all their clothes on, even their shoes, which I think is unsanitary.
Abortion supporters are sniffing the winds of change and seeing that calls for defunding of Planned Parenthood might be successful. With Live Action’s expose of Planned Parenthood, the abortion giant might fall. Planned Parenthood has been the head of snake, but what we see here is the rattler’s tail.
Extremely disappointed to read liberals being equated with Communists. McCarthyism lives and continues to discredit all who publish it.
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