To: koan who wrote (783742 ) 5/7/2014 12:13:44 PM From: Brumar89 Respond to Pregnancy and abortion as publicity stunt: Evil and creepy. Whoops, she probably wasn't supposed to call it a baby or a life. Cosmopolitan magazine has published the film online along with an article by Letts pro-choicers have embraced the film as something important and good . It has won The Abortion Care Network’s “Stigma Busting” award self-styled progressives are applauding Letts’s bravery. Cosmo is keen to say that the video is “non-graphic” — the implication being that, while the pro-lifers like to send around horrifying pictures of mangled foetuses, they are reasonable and sensitive about the subject. But can they honestly say that, by posting a film a woman enjoying her abortion, they did not hope to generate a fair bit of online controversy and web traffic? You could also say that Ms Letts, far from being a heroine for women’s rights, is just another publicity mad young person who’ll do anything to be looked at online. The pro-choice side seems to be slowly losing the argument and they are freaking out about it. Spain is reversing its liberal abortion laws and British feminists are outraged because not enough people here are outraged people, especially women, are increasingly uncomfortable with the number and legal status of abortions in this country ‘no woman takes the decision to abort a child lightly’ sounds facile in a world in which millions of foetuses are snuffed out each year and more and more women have ‘repeat’ abortions Science has changed our perceptions, too, in a way that undermines the pro-abortion position. Imaging technology shows that foetuses, even at a very early stage of gestation, are far more than just lumps of inconvenient cells. Medical advances mean that pre-term foetuses are more ‘viable’ outside the womb than ever before.Juno , Knocked Up and Twilight , Hollywood was (unconsciously) starting to promote a more pro-baby agenda — but there has been a discernible cultural shift away from the view that abortion is an untrammelled good always and everywhere. Even fiercely libertine publications, like Vice, are starting to consider what the fathers of aborted babies go through the pro-abortion lobby is resorting to anger and a sort of muddle-headed sentimentali ty. When men question the status quo, as Jeremy Hunt did, they are shouted down and called misogynists Laurie Penny says that men can’t have ‘relevant’ views on abortion because they can’t get pregnant http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2014/05/the-emily-letts-abortion-video-shows-that-pro-choicers-are-losing-the-plot/
