This week the Pro-Life Action League published an article highlighting the latest tendency among abortion advocates to portray abortion not merely something to be tolerated, but as something “good” — or even “great.”
This new trend is due in part to a new book, Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights, in which author Katha Pollitt laments what she calls the “awfulization” of abortion.
In a review of Pollitt’s book published earlier this week at Slate, Hanna Rosin writes:
We shouldn’t need a book explaining why abortion rights are important. We should be over that by now.
The reason we’re not, according to Pollitt, is that we have all essentially been brainwashed by a small minority of pro-life activists. Only 7 to 20 percent of Americans tell pollsters they want to totally ban abortion, but that loud minority has beaten the rest of us into submission with their fetus posters and their absolutism and their infiltration of American politics. They have landed us in the era of the “awfulization” of abortion, Pollitt writes, where even pro-choicers are “falling all over themselves” to use words like “thorny,” “vexed,” “complex,” and “difficult” instead of doing what they should be doing, which is saying out loud that abortion is a positive social good.
Did you catch that line about “fetus posters” (otherwise known as pictures of abortion victims)? The loudest cheerleaders for abortion can’t stand them precisely because they can’t deny how utterly powerful they are.
The reality is that abortion is never good, because it always takes the life of an innocent child. That’s why now, more than ever, we must bring the reality—yea, the truly awful—reality of abortion out into the open.
And that’s what we’ll be doing Wednesday, October 29 when we visit three Chicago abortion clinics to show pictures of the victims.
The details are listed below and on the Facebook event page. Join us!
