Comments on: The Land of “Oh Fucking Shit”: When The Choice Is Yours

By: Marie Anelle

Marie Anelle — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:35:37 +0000

Jen, maybe before you try to get up on some condescending anti-choice warrior high horse, you should read my other posts….that have been up for a couple of weeks now.

Just saying.

By: baraqiel

baraqiel — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:44:45 +0000

Aren’t all positive rights issues about control in some sense? EG when I turned 18 I gained the positive right to vote, which meant that the state stopped controlling my vote (which it had previously declared to be a null set) and instead I started controlling it — whether it was cast and also for whom. The right to free speech means that you get to control what you say, to whom, when, where, and so forth. I’m not sure why you say this as if it’s a bad thing, Jen. Self-determination, or the ability to exercise control over one’s own life, is one of the founding principles of this country.

By: Carla

Carla — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:43:34 +0000

LOL @ Jen. Typical female misogynist…can dish it but can’t take it. When faced with actual science and a woman who’s not intimidated by her hostile bullshit, she just rolls up into a whiny ball and complains that people are being mean to her, and it”s everyone else’s fault for not understanding her “facts.”

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:44:48 +0000

Wow. You all sure get wound up when cornered. Why so defensive? I am calm and respectful (gag) and you just go off! Must be tough to want to fight to the death (literally) about something you KNOW you’re wrong about. Just admit it. It’s a selfish control issue. MEMEME!
Never did hear your “parts’ report, Marie. Hope you enjoyed picking through you’re child’s remains. Of course, if you weren’t too much of a coward to actually follow through.

By: BeckySharper

BeckySharper — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:53:15 +0000

Okay, Jen, I’m going to have to jump in here and call some serious bullshit on your comment.

I’ve seen abortions done at all stages and by all methods and it is horrific. Torn up body parts and crushed skulls…how can we think that is okay.

If you’re so truly knowledgeable about pregnancy and abortion, then you know that aborting at 7 weeks the way Marie Anelle did absolutely will NOT involve any torn-up limbs or crushed skulls. That’s Biology 101.

Given that, your bringing up the skulls and the limbs—O the horror!—is just more of the usual unscientific anti-abortion propaganda…exactly what Marie Anelle was calling bullshit on in the first place. Thanks for doubling down and proving her right by trotting it out again. Y’all really need to come up with some new arguments. And your insistence about how you won’t believe what she says unless you can see photos of her expelled blood clots…you should knock that off simply because that kind of panty-sniffing makes you look perverse.

Moving on to your comments about the nurse you used to work with…my guess is she was winding you up. Likely because you were being a sanctimonious twit to her the way you are to Marie Anelle. Lord knows, I’d have been tempted to troll you that way, if you were up in my face with these nonsensical arguments.

Many respond with an argument about women’s rights. I don’t get why the rights (obviously not legal rights anymore) of all the aborted female children aren’t considered.

Aborted fetuses aren’t women—or even people—so they don’t have rights. So take your pandering appeal about women’s rights and stuff it. It doesn’t apply here.

By: Marie Anelle

Marie Anelle — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 02:46:12 +0000

What great suggestions Jen! I would have never thought of those on my own!!

Now ask me if I even have a cell phone, how old my iPod is, and how comfortable my friends would be taking pictures of my clots? Because newsflash, that’s what the average abortion looks like.

Though it’s really cute that you tried to use an emotional appeal based on gender. Do me a favour and find any other instance where another person was allowed to use another’s body without their consent, even if it meant saving their life. Not a single person has that right and I don’t get why you seem to think a fetus is superior….especially one that you would not give a real crap about.

Maybe spend more time having your own babies instead of lecturing on the evils of not having mine.

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 02:32:45 +0000

Marie Anelle, it’s not that I have any desire to see pics, it’s just that if you seek to disprove the photos the pro-life movement uses then you should definitely post some of your own. Cell phones have cameras, iPods have cameras, friends have cameras.
I used to work for a lady that had been the head nurse at a hospital in the city we live in. She was 110% pro-choice and still is. I used to debate the abortion issue with her for hours, but all she did was laugh. She wasn’t laughing at me or my beliefs, she was laughing because she thought the idea of a “useless little bastard” winding up in the garbage was funny (pro-choice or not, she was NOT a nice person in general!). She thought the little arms and legs were funny. She giggled telling stories of counting little ribs and arms…she didn’t deny any of the photos used by the pro-lifers were inaccurate. She confirmed they were very accurate, but she also was still pro-choice.
I’ve seen medical videos – unbiased ones. Educating myself thoroughly on the topic MADE me pro-life. Correction – I am pro-INNOCENT life. As I mentioned in my earlier post, religion has nothing to do with why I feel this way. I would define myself as spiritual, but do NOT subscribe to ANY of the bible-thumping BS that many pro-lifers do. I’ve seen abortions done at all stages and by all methods and it is horrific. Torn up body parts and crushed skulls…how can we think that is okay? I really don’t understand it. Many respond with an argument about women’s rights. I don’t get why the rights (obviously not legal rights anymore) of all the aborted female children aren’t considered.

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By: Marie Anelle

Marie Anelle — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:01:43 +0000

Jen, I provided a link at the bottom of the page. When you click on some light reading, it’ll bring you to an abortion fact sheet. You can then search that website I linked or google to find some others that have been reported on reputable sites.

It’s not that I WON’T post pics. I really, really wanted to. I almost wanted to shove those pics in anti-choice faces more than anything because I’m sick of the ridiculousness of “here’s a fetus aborted at 6 weeks superimposed near an object that’s actually bigger than a fetus at that gestational age!!” pics. I just simply can’t find my camera. I know that takes the drama out of it, but it is what it is.

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 03:34:20 +0000

You won’t post pics? Really? I wonder why? And where are the links to these “latest studies” you mentioned?

PS – I am NOT religious in any way. I think those nutty f*ckers damage the pro-life movement.