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Re: Use birth control pills to prevent pregnancy? You're fir
Blame your own movement, BJ.
I'd poke myself in the eye with a sharp stick before clicking on anything from the anti-choice movement - a movement that practices disinformation by using gross-out bait-and-switch images of stillbirths (generally third trimester) to protest abortion (generally first trimester), and generally in the least appropriate venues. Outside schools, shelters, hospitals ... charming folk. If you could argue your points rationally, without histrionics, unvetted sources, or tangents, I'd be a lot more inclined to engage, but since you're not ... pass. I rank y'all on roughly the same level as Something Awful, and at least their hideous imagery tends to be accompanied by horrified fascination.
I don't know if it's the intellectual dishonesty I dislike more, or the inappropriate pleasure in other people's discomfort. You're judged by the company you keep: blame the rest of the anti-choicers, their bad science, and their tendency to profit off the ignorance of their credulous audience. Gianna Jessen, anyone? Another "survivor" who makes a tidy profit on speaking fees, but apparently couldn't be bothered to research how saline abortion works, and tried to claim chemical burns. Yeesh. At least Ohden did some reading, I guess, though the complete and total lack of sources on her website or independent corroboration still has me scratching my head that people buy her story.
And, for the love of all that's holy, could we go back to the topic of the thread already? This is the biggest train-wreck of a derail I can remember on this board. Yeesh.
Blame your own movement, BJ.
I'd poke myself in the eye with a sharp stick before clicking on anything from the anti-choice movement - a movement that practices disinformation by using gross-out bait-and-switch images of stillbirths (generally third trimester) to protest abortion (generally first trimester), and generally in the least appropriate venues. Outside schools, shelters, hospitals ... charming folk. If you could argue your points rationally, without histrionics, unvetted sources, or tangents, I'd be a lot more inclined to engage, but since you're not ... pass. I rank y'all on roughly the same level as Something Awful, and at least their hideous imagery tends to be accompanied by horrified fascination.
I don't know if it's the intellectual dishonesty I dislike more, or the inappropriate pleasure in other people's discomfort. You're judged by the company you keep: blame the rest of the anti-choicers, their bad science, and their tendency to profit off the ignorance of their credulous audience. Gianna Jessen, anyone? Another "survivor" who makes a tidy profit on speaking fees, but apparently couldn't be bothered to research how saline abortion works, and tried to claim chemical burns. Yeesh. At least Ohden did some reading, I guess, though the complete and total lack of sources on her website or independent corroboration still has me scratching my head that people buy her story.
And, for the love of all that's holy, could we go back to the topic of the thread already? This is the biggest train-wreck of a derail I can remember on this board. Yeesh.