Together, we are calling on national religious and pro-life leaders to join us and encourage all like-minded people to participate in a national strike. Let’s send a powerful message to America that we must stop abortion now!(Warning: the video embedded in the article I’m linking to, which is also on the Facebook page, contains a lot of images of abortion victims. You don’t need to watch the video to understand what the protest is about or how you can get involved. You also shouldn’t feel obligated to use victim imagery in your protest.)
ProtestABQ, Operation Rescue, Created Equal, and Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust are calling all pro-life Americans to join in a national strike and protest January 22-23. They cite the success of boycotts and strikes in movements such as the Civil Rights Movement and the Polish Solidarity Movement as a reason to believe that a strike like this will bring attention to the crisis of abortion — if we all stand together.
The plan is simple: on Thursday, January 22 and Friday, January 23,
- Don’t go to work or school
- Don’t spend money unnecessarily
- Do peacefully and prayerfully protest in your area or in Washington D.C. with the pro-lifers who gather for the March for Life.
I invite all my pro-life followers to join me in this. I will be at the March for Life in D.C., but you can do this wherever you are. Check out the Facebook page and talk to your local pro-life groups to find out if they’re organizing a protest and how you can get involved.
I’m not asking you to give up everything and devote your life to pro-life activism. All I ask is that you give up two days to call attention to the crisis of abortion on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton.
This is our opportunity to show our country that pro-lifers are not a tiny, quiet minority.
OPERATION RESCUE IS A REGISTERED TERRORIST GROUP.
So go ahead, stand with terrorists and liars. We’ll know who to avoid.
Not only that, but what do they think is going to happen if we somehow make abortion illegal?
For one, abortion would not stop. And two, what happens to the literal hundreds of thousands of unwanted kids that will be a result of this? I can promise you, legitimate infanticide, child abuse, and already crowed foster homes will all spike.
I think everyone is genuinely curious as to what you think stopping abortion will actually do and how you would help all the people negatively affected by anti abortion laws.
1. Abortion would not stop completely if it was illegal, but it would greatly decrease. Murdering adults happens, but we still keep it illegal. Rape still happens, but it’s still illegal. The fact that people will break laws does not mean we should have no laws.
We believe that the preborn deserve equal protection under the law, meaning they should not be killed just like their mothers shouldn’t be killed.
2. We don’t just want to stop abortion. We also want to make adoption more available, streamline the process so that more couples can afford to adopt a kid and can navigate the system.
We also don’t think that a person being “unwanted” justifies their death.
3. The legalization of abortion in 1973 did not reduce child abuse rates. In fact, in 1980, when children aborted in 1974 would have been about six years old, the rate was substantially higher.
You also can’t prevent child abuse by killing children.
Any claims with numeric value that you want to make need to be backed up with a source.
And passing anti abortion laws may decrease abortion, but it’s a known fact that it won’t stop, meaning your putting a very large chunk of people in harms way. Which doesn’t seem very pro “life”, unless you want to admit that the pro life community really only cares about fetuses and control.
Forcing birth will increase child abuse, you don’t even need to read the facts to understand that( but if you do want to read, here you go X X.) People getting abortions are people saying that they are not fit to be parents, or that they don’t want to put yet another child into a broken system, or they simply don’t want to be pregnant, aka unwanted pregnancies. If you follow the bouncing ball you’d understand that a large percentage of child abuse comes from people living in poverty (“Poverty is the most frequently and persistently noted risk factor for child abuse”), restricting access to abortion increase the rate and the likely hood of someone with an unintended pregnancy slipping into poverty, in fact
And after documenting the experiences of the women who seek to terminate a pregnancy but are turned away from abortion services, the UCSF researchers found that those women were three times more likely than the women who successfully obtained abortions to fall below the poverty line within the subsequent two years. (X)
Like hell, that’s just one example. I could keep going if you’d like but I think you get the picture. Other factors that increase the risk of child abuse include any situation in which the child is the result of an unwanted pregnancy or a pregnancy that the mother denies
Maybe we should talk about how there has been growing awareness of the co-occurrence of domestic violence and child maltreatment, and hey, abortion restrictions actually put more people at risk for domestic violence, making it a more hostile place to grow up.
Infant Abandonment laws were created because people who did not want to be pregnant and parent and had no other options are were just leaving infants in places, and then those kids were discovered most of the time dead. The thing about the laws though, is that they’re widely understood that they’re a bandaid reaction for unintended pregnancies (X)
So I mean the solutions are right there, no where does it say “abolishing abortion” will help the underlying issues, it’s to the contrary actually.
Like I never said it was possible to completely eradicate child abuse/neglect with abortion, but abortion gives people options. I don’t know many people have written in to tell us about the abusive home they grew up in, because guess what, kids can be unwanted, that’s a fact. Arming people with resources to help prevent unwanted pregnancies is needed, choices are needed, not eliminating people’s options. -c
Do anti-choicers not realize that their policies have already been tested in real life and proven to have barbaric and horrific results? Have they not heard of what happened in Romania?
Between 1966 to 1989, Romania was ruled by the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Under his command, contraception and abortions were abolished. The result? Approximately 10,000 pregnant people died from attempting to get illegal abortions. Orphanages became overcrowded with unwanted children. Infanticide and child abuse rates increased. Education levels plummeted.
That is the world that pro-lifers want. THAT is the type of system they are working so hard to create.
In France, abortion was legalized in 1975 thanks to the amazing work of Simone Weil (great woman, survived Auschwitz, you should read about her if you dunno who she is).
So when you talk to women who know what happened before 1975, you have two kind of results :
– The woman is wealthy or speaks about a wealthy friend of hers. She went in UK or Belgian to get an abortion, everything turned right, she gets back to her life.
– The woman speaks about a poor friend of hers : she made it in her bathroom with bleach or a coat-hanger or whatever, most of the time, she’s dead, or she became infertile, or had health problems.
So we should also keep in mind that criminalizing abortion INCREASES SOCIAL INEQUALITIES and lower the expentency of lifetime of unwealthy women.
Major pro-life groups call for a national strike and protests to end abortion
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