"Seriously, conservatives need to get their heads out of their asses - and out of our uteruses. (Sorry, not the best visual.) " - Liz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCIyzNISw1Q On Nov 9, 11:29 am, "Liz Purkrabek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.feministing.com/archives/011876.html > > National Review: Women who don't support Palin are just upset about their > abortions > > Now this > <http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTA0YjdjZDc2OTVlNmM1YmE1YTY4ODRl... > c0YTc=> is rich. Kevin Burke, a proponent of the invented > <http://www.feministing.com/archives/006386.html> "post abortion syndrome," > writes that the criticism of Sarah Palin "may have a relationship to the > collective grief, shame, and guilt from personal involvement in the abortion > of an unborn child." Here I thought voters made decisions based on the > issues that matter to them - little did I know that women across the country > who don't support Palin are simply depressed about all of those abortions > we've been having! > > Burke gets even classier when he brings Palin's pregnant teen daughter into > the mix: > > If Bristol Palin had quietly aborted, Sarah Palin would have been spared the > politically untimely focus on this very personal family issue. The problem > would have quietly gone away. But Bristol, like countless post abortive > women, would have paid a high price to protect her mother from the political > heat that her pregnancy brings to the campaign. We know from our work with > thousands of women who feel pressured to abort for various reasons that she > would surely suffer many of the common post-abortion symptoms; depression, > promiscuity, drug and alcohol abuse, sleep disorders, and relational > problems. But she would have suffered in silence; no one would know her > secret. No one would acknowledge that she has reason to grieve or have > symptoms after abortion. Sarah Palin would have lost not only her precious > grandchild...she likely would have lost her daughter Bristol to the silent > ravages of post abortion suffering. > > Wow, given that one in three > <http://www.guttmacher.org/in-the-know/incidence.html> American women will > have an abortion in her lifetime - there must be millions of tired, > addicted, slutty, depressed, single women running around voting Democrat! > > Seriously, conservatives need to get their heads out of their asses - and > out of our uteruses. (Sorry, not the best visual.) > > Posted by Jessica <http://www.feministing.com/profiles/1> - October 29, > 2008, at 11:45AM <http://www.feministing.com/archives/011876.html> | in > Election <http://www.feministing.com/election/> , Politics > <http://www.feministing.com/politics/> , Reproductive Rights > <http://www.feministing.com/reproductive-rights/> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Memphis Freethought Alliance" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/memphisfreethoughtalliance?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
