The Anti-Choice Agenda Gets Even More Ridiculous
The anti-choice agenda is just getting even more ridiculous with every campaign that they introduce. The latest campaign The American Life League is pushing is The Pill Kills.
The message behind this campaign is that the pills kills babies and that by using birth control you are subjecting your body to chemical abortions. On June 7, the 43rd anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision Griswold v. Connecticut, which gave married people the right to use contraception, they will be gathering outside of reproductive health care facilities with what they are calling “peaceful protests,” but as we have all seen from pictures alone, their protests are hardly peaceful. This campaign is the starting point of the pro-life organizations pushing to make contraception illegal.
As usual with pro-life extremism, they are willing to do anything to push their agenda, including lying to women.
Take a look at their talking points section of the website, you can spot the bullshit immediately:
Q: Isn’t it better to be on the pill when you are sexually active?
A: Better for whom? The pill does not prevent you from getting a sexually transmitted disease, it is not 100 percent effective in preventing pregnancy and you could conceive a child who gets chemically aborted before the baby’s presence is even known to you. Moreover, sexual activity outside of marriage is seriously wrong.
Yep, if you are having sex outside of marriage, you’re just selfish thinking that you should be able to have sex without being shackled to a spouse. Don’t you know that you should be taking every child that god gives you? These people need to realize that pushing personal morals helps no one because not everyone thinks the same way you do. Imagine that.
Q: Is the pill dangerous to my health?
A: Absolutely! There are links between the birth control pill and breast cancer, cervical cancer, deep vein thrombosis (DVT), infertility, birth defects, blood clots, pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy, shrinking of the womb, stroke, weight gain and much more.
These crazy people also claim that clinics such as Planned Parenthood make “big money” but last time I checked, Planned Parenthood gave low income women a place to go and receive safe and confidential health care at little to no cost whatsoever.
I am convinced that the pro-life agenda really doesn’t want to cut down on the number of abortions. With this campaign alone, they are pushing the thought that women shouldn’t use contraception and to those who are buying in to their agenda, they hear “Okay, no contraception.” and especially when it comes to teenagers, who are going to have sex anyway, they are actually making the numbers of abortions performed per year rise as well as the number of children parenting children rise.
If the anti-choice movement really cared about women, they wouldn’t be brainwashing them into thinking that birth control is bad for you, they wouldn’t be lying to people saying that birth control and abortion have harmful side effects that have been proven to be untrue and they wouldn’t be giving women more ways to become pregnant by using their personal morals as a weapon.
I plan on driving to my local Planned Parenthood on June 7 and seeing what the protest looks like there (even though the closest Planned Parenthood to me that I can even call local is about 40 miles away) and see if they’re really pushing the peaceful concept; I’m thinking no… I also plan on taking pictures and seeing how many of these people are willing to talk to me; could be a damn good time indeed.
Via Feministing.
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Ah, yeah, I remember reading about this. In a way I’m glad, because it shows just how out of control these people are, but it’s also dangerous, too, because there are people who will believe these messages, and we both understand how harmful these messages can be.
I look forward to a follow-up post if you decide to write one after you intend the rally (assuming nothing else comes up). Maybe it’s just me overreacting, but be careful, too. From what I know about the anti-choicers in America, I’d be scared to get on their bad side.
Okay ~ I am admittedly pro-life! (Yes, I know I’m entering hostile territory opening with that statement!) However, this is going a bit too far. Even those of us “normal” pro-lifers who believe that life begins at conception cannot possibly make an argument that the pill kills. How is that even possible when it prevents conception? BTW - That statement from Derek and his use of “anti-choicers” versus pro-lifers..that’s pretty funny!
If you disagree with me - well - I just might have to call on God to strike you down - or - I might call you really really really nasty names while beating you with my protest signs! You do know that we pro-lifers have a direct line to God, right? LOL (And..the God reference was intentional sarcasm for your enjoyment)
Also ~ I know this is going to be a great shock to you ~ I’m currently working on a Ph.D. in Public Health ~ yup ~ a bastion program of the left, and a program that Planned Parenthood falls under. Whoever is making the statement that Planned Parenthood is making “big money” obviously has no idea how they are funded. Yes, they do get private donations, but, there is some public funding going to them as well since they are not just abortion providers as they do provide other services as well. Yes, I do know the history and the agenda of the founder. Not all the planned parenthood clinics provide abortions either. Those are the ones that actually receive public funding.
Not all of us on the right are as stupid or closed minded as some on the left think we are!
Good post!
If you get pictures at the Planned Parenthood, then you definitely should post them and follow up on this topic. I hate the ignorant Right Wing that promotes this regression in Women’s Rights. The thought that some of these people actually believe that the pill is causing you to be in a ’state of abortion’ is just stupid and uneducated. These people have no idea what the pill is even doing to a woman’s body if they really think that. People are human, and they have sex outside of marriage…no matter how ‘good’ they are. I just don’t want to be told I have to get married because I’m having a baby because I can’t take the pill, and that is what the Right Wing thinks you should have to do.
I really think people are getting a little screwy. If you are leaning right then you should want more humans to be born in America… That will give us a larger army and helps to take over Earth. If you are leaning left then you want to select when to have a baby. I get the feeling that this is secretly a group of people leaning left who are attempting to make people who lean right look like complete maniacs. First abortion…now the pill… next masturbation… then the burning of carbon when you light a match. Crazy people need to stop it or just move somewhere else please.