Eh?
With Roe gone, it’s more important than ever to crack down on so-called "crisis pregnancy centers" that mislead and deceive patients seeking abortion care. My bill with
@SenatorMenendezwould stop these harmful practices.
So called?
Warren's nonsensical crap that she twittered, and that's what it is, has provoked some reaction. The first one I saw was from Patricia Heaton, an actress perhaps best known for Everybody Loves Raymond. She stated:
She's not the only one who reacted this way, however. One woman recounted her personal story of being in a "crisis" pregnancy and receiving only advice to abort the child, which she didn't want to do. She found the help she needed in just such a clinic as Warren would seek to "crack down" on.
An African American woman (that is, a woman who is an African, with citizenship in an African nation, and also an American, tweeted the following:
Wow! Elizabeth Warren wants to “crack down” on organizations that exist purely to give help and assistance to women in crisis pregnancy situations. What do these people have against saving the lives of babies?
"Kay", a young woman in her twenties who is married with children, whose tweets I've posted here before, on the topic in general reacted with what might be called outrage at something I've noted before, the absurd claim that everyone receiving an abortion is twelve years old. As she rightfully pointed out, most aren't anything like that, but are rather adult women who freely engaged in the act of bringing the child about. I note that again here, as this was the situation for the woman whose tweet I didn't put in (I couldn't find it again).
Perhaps the bravest reaction in some ways was that of Cal Thomas's granddaughter.
Thomas is a conservative columnist. Snarky left-wingers like to take shots at conservatives in general as being hypocrites for not living the life they espouse (the criticism, I'd note, runs both ways, but on different topics), but this can't really be said of Thomas, whose willing to publish about life's failures and wrong turns openly. He did just that, and then turned his column over to his granddaughter in his most recent edition. In his current column, called "A Personal Story", she wrote:
"I was 19 when I found out I was pregnant with my first child.
"I didn't have any future plans. Just taking one day at a time. The father of my child didn't want to be involved so it was just me. Never did I think abortion was my solution. I had people tell me my life would be ruined, I would not be able to provide for my unborn child, doctors encouraged me to get an abortion. People encouraged adoption. I wanted none of that! I became a mother. My instincts to love, protect and nurture my child were immediate. I didn't have a college degree or a well-paying job. I didn't have a bunch of money. I didn't even have a car!
"Having my child set me on a path and God guided me the whole way. I am thankful to have the courage and the ability to think for myself to make my OWN decisions. I am thankful I was not easily swayed by the lies that abortion is and was the only solution. If you find yourself in a similar situation there is help! People say pro-lifers don't care about the child once the baby is born. That is a huge lie. There are SO MANY resources out there for young pregnant moms and people who choose life but need help to build a strong foundation.
"There are people who can't have children and WANT them. Adoption is a beautiful thing. Death for convenience and out of fear is not so beautiful. I know people who have shared their abortion stories with me and not one of them was because of a defect, rape, abuse. Every single one was because of fear. I want to share my story to counter the big lies told by the abortion industry. It's a business. They don't care about you or your baby. They want the money. My firstborn is 16, he is smart, funny, responsible, dedicated and I'm so lucky I get to be his mom. I am where I am today in my life because I became a mother early on. I don't regret a second of it. I have achieved so much in my life, having a child didn't hold me back, it propelled me."
This gets back to something about life, and by that I mean just our individual lives and life existentially. The great lie of the feminist movement was that a woman could "have it all". Early on, that meant have it all except for children and marriage, as the early feminist were hostile to both. The thought was that by living, in essence, the Playboy lifestyle, but as a woman rather than a man, perpetual economic fortune and personal freedom would lead to bliss.
It didn't, and hasn't.
Women never adopted that view by and large, and much of our behavior having been set in the ancient past 500,000 years or more ago on African plains, people continued to marry and have children, or not marry and have children. The genes of our hunter-gatherer forebears turn out to matter more than the drivel shoved out by Cosmopolitan or Playboy in the print portion. So babies keep happening.
What's also kept happening is the Warren argument that killing a child who wasn't specifically planned out for is a better option for a living woman, as that way she can go on to be fulfilled as a human, or whatever, blood on her hands notwithstanding. In reality, however, the unexpected turns of life continue on no matter what, the great lie that by killing an infant you can live in perpetual 1970s Cosmo bliss remains untrue.
How many people, really, have their lives planned out at 18 and life goes exactly that way? Some do, but they're few, at least in an absolutest sense. Some indeed do know what they want to do, and achieve that, but even for them, there's bumps on the way. I don't know very many people, if any people at all, who haven't had some sort of crisis in their life.
And lots of people lives take unexpected turns.
Some of those turns are huge, but at the same time, we usually bring those about somehow. Not always, of course.
Killing is always never the answer.
Answering the question above, Warren is obviously an intelligent woman, but I've wondered about her cluelessness before. She comes from academia and was originally a Republican. She had a rough early life and indeed a sort of rough start in the law before becoming a professor. In public addresses, she often seems to not really grasp what she's talking about.
Warren is 73, making her a Boomer in the true sense. A lot of post Dobbs focus has been on her, as she was the focus of a lot of hardcore "Progressive" attention in the last election. The other individuals really leading the charge on abortion, if we discount Pelosi and Biden, which we probably really should here (and whom we'll address in a later post, maybe) is Kamala Harris, who is 57, making her a post Boomer. She's also from the hard left, and she's been floundering as Vice President. It's widely speculated that the Democrats will dump Biden in 2024, although they can't say that now, and it's been speculated that Harris will be dumped too. Now she's contending for that position through this issue, figuring its near and dear to the country's heart.
Frankly, I doubt it is. The press has been putting out polls about a large majority of Americans favoring Roe, but those polls have weaknesses. For one thing, most Americans don't realize that abortion in the United States was far more legally authorized than it is almost anywhere else. When people compare the US to Europe on this, they fail to realize that European nations are far more restrictive of it. And when people dig into the issue, it turns out that the "for" position has a lot of nuances to it. People don't really grasp how broad Roe was, or that Casey basically repealed it years ago, and they tend to favor a lot of restrictions.
Added to that, it's just not really an issue that brings that many "pro" people to the polls. Left wing Democrats who are strongly in favor it have been going to the polls anyway. It'll make, therefore, no real difference in voting.
What might make a societal difference, however, is the realization of what Cal Thomas' granddaughter stated, and what is obvious to anyone who knows how deeply those opposed to abortion really care.
I know people who have shared their abortion stories with me and not one of them was because of a defect, rape, abuse. Every single one was because of fear. I want to share my story to counter the big lies told by the abortion industry. It's a business. They don't care about you or your baby.
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