Comments on: Alito confirmed

By: Maria

Maria — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 04:16:21 +0000

Oh, I dunno, Jo, is it because of Pro-Lifers enviable history of opposing racist, anti-working class population-control and Eugenics policies?

Admittedly it is in stark contrast with the Pro-Abortion movement’s craven collaboration with the stop-’em-breeding brigade - an intimate collaboration which continues to this day.

But don’t just be jealous of our good record, Jo. Do something about it. Listen, carefully, to our critique. Learn from it. Clean up the Pro-abortion movement. You can’t do anything about its history but you can influence its current direction.

Oh and show some confidence in your arguments - if they are robust enough to withstand contradiction, you can lift the censorship of comments on your blog.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 11:20:08 +0000

I wonder whether Maria thinks that support for the existence of any profession always necessarily entails either a commitment to work in it (ideally for no pay) or a charge of hypocrisy. And also, if so, whether she ever has any free time.

By: Jo

Jo — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 10:27:27 +0000

And Maria wonders why I dislike most pro-lifers…

By: Maria

Maria — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 04:22:02 +0000

But Antonia, that’s a really bad excuse.

For a start, all abortion industry jobs aren’t medical. Receptionists, counsellors and even cleaners are employed in NHS Obs and Gynae wards and private abortion clinics.

Granted, you may find such low-status positions both infra dig and too removed from the blood’n'guts of abortion. But you could always re-train as a doctor or nurse so as to take your position on the front-line, as it were.

Don’t let your current career stand in your way. If you care as much as you say you do for abortion, you will willingly make the necessary sacrifices to keep the industry running. According to you, women *need* abortions, remember.

So put your money where your mouth is. Don’t just *talk* about abortion being an uplifting experience; get out there and pull some feoti from some wombs. And smile while you do so.

By: Antonia

Antonia — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:32:46 +0000

I think it’s the “end of days” feeling to everything written on Abortion Clinic Days that affects me: you can almost see the walls closing in on women in the US. Oh, and Maria - the reason I don’t volunteer in an abortion clinic is because I’m not a healthcare professional, and because in this country we have a wonderful institution called the NHS.

By: Jexebel

Jexebel — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 07:36:24 +0000

Nice, I always like narritives. Now excuse me, the above commenter has inspired me to volunteer in a clinic. If I hurry I can get the floppy-fetus pulling job.

By: Maria

Maria — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 04:32:51 +0000

Antonia, you’re very strange. Do you *really* think its ‘uplifting’ to work in an abortion clinic?

You know when girls and women wake up crying their eyes out after a termination (feeling relief, I mean) do you find *that* uplifting?

And what about the job of pulling the foetus, fully-formed, floppy and lifeless from the birth canal - would you find *that* uplifting?

It begs the question, if you find it that uplifting, why don’t you volunteer to work at an abortion clinic?