The conservatives were expressing thoughts "Yes, we will win in the future"!
However, I was already skeptical of those reports!
My thought was those young pro-lifers don't have much life experience! I mean, if you're 13 years old, it's EASY to repeat everything your preachers, parents, grandparents say! It takes ZERO GUTS to repeat what they told you!
You still haven't spent some time in a room alone, kissing and hugging, minutes turn into hours, things heat up, and all of a sudden, your natural desires come into action! You weren't expecting things to heat up, but it seems exciting, can't let it stop now!
You forgot or were too shy to tell your boyfriend to use your condom! Your birth control pills expired! Or maybe his condom was on, but it broke!
Or it might've been even worse!
You were only planning to hug & kiss, but he forced your clothes off and raped you! You're now pregnant, but soon everyone will spread rumors about being a "slut" even though you didn't even want to do it!
Once that happens all the conservative correctness you heard all your life ("no sex until marriage", "abortion is always bad", blah, blah) doesn't sound so correct anymore
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GUESS WHAT?
I got evidence that I am right!
Here's an article from Salon
http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet/feature/2009/11/04/no_longer_anti_choice/print.html
Ann Moore, a senior researcher associate at the Guttmacher Institute, has conducted in-depth interviews with women in abortion clinics. When asked how they found out about the clinic, she told Broadsheet, some women responded that "they used to protest outside."
There's also Anna Clark, who wrote in RHRealityCheck in 2007 that she once believed "abortion was murder" and suspected that "women used the procedure to bypass the consequences of sex." After a gradual, examined change of heart, she writes, "Today, I have the passion of a convert for reproductive rights."
Clark also quotes Dr. Melissa Gilliam, who practices pediatric and adolescent gynecology at a University of Chicago hospital, and also performs abortions. "People obtain services for their reason," Gilliam said. "We luckily don't have protesters, but they tell me about how they protest (a clinic) one day, come in the next, and are back out protesting a few days later."
(Pablo's notes: a lot of those anti-abortion protesters are not even sincere, they're just there to fit in with their conservative friends)
And, a former clinic director from Raleigh: "I can't tell you how many times I checked in a patient who said, 'Now I don't believe in this kind of thing, but...'" she said. "...It's all those 'ands' and 'buts' that make abortion services a necessary part of the reproductive health dialogue."(READ THAT PARAGRAPH AGAIN all you anti-choicers!)
Gloria Feldt, recalling her first experience with direct abortion services when she moved to Phoenix to head up the Planned Parenthood there, told Broadsheet this story: "A 17-year-old Catholic High School student came in wearing her pleated plaid school uniform. She knew where the clinic was because her priest had brought the students down to picket as a class assignment, and she had believed in the anti-abortion position she'd learned there. Then she became pregnant; her boyfriend of the same age accompanied her to the clinic where the staff learned that she had a kidney disease and had been warned by her doctor that it would be dangerous for her to carry the pregnancy to term. Much sobbing and total rethinking of the issue followed. She did have an abortion."
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That's right, a lot of those anti-abortion protesters will end up getting an abortion anyways!
So all those who say "yay, the younger generation will be more pro-life", prepare to be disillusioned!
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Also, remember when some conservative Republicans in Congress were on Bill Clinton's case for having an affair with Monica Lewinsky!
Some of those same guys were having their own affairs (ie. Bob Livingston, Newt Gingrich, Bob Barr, Henry Hyde)
One was even soliciting prostitutes (David Vitter)
Also, remember Larry Craig, the Republican senator that was against same-sex marriage? He was caught soliciting for gay sex in an airport bathroom!
The Democrats aren't immune! Former NY governor Elliot Spitzer denounced prostitution but was ......... doing it with prostitutes! Also, pro-Democrat preacher Jesse Jackson was having an affair and made a baby through it!
So, look at all the anti-abortion advocates, politicians, cable news pundits, and editorial writers! Don't be surprised to find out THEY HAD ABORTIONS TOO!
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Look, I'm all for restraint! I'm all for teaching kids to resist peer pressure to have sex!
I'm also for telling to kids to not jump off walls!
But if your kid jumps off a wall, do you tell them "too bad, you ain't getting surgery!"?
Most likely, you'll let them have surgery!
Same thing applies to sex and abortion!
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(In case you were wondering, my parents NEVER preached on this issue either way, but I was pro-abortion from a young age, based on real life stories I read back then!)
