Sit Down, Woman, and Think Again

I happened on a site tonight called StandupGirl.com (if you want to go there, you can copy it yourself) that is one of those lovely places that tries to make a pregnant young woman feel incredibly guilty about making any other choice but keeping an unexpected pregnancy. You know those places that want to show you video of the baby sitting in the uterus saying, "Oh pweez don't kill me! I wanna go to Bob Jones U when I get old enuf so I can be a real smart man like Bill Fwist! Oh mommy, pweez! I wuv you soooooo!"

To give you an idea of their honesty level there, click on the Quick Facts about the "Population Boom". According to them, population is going down. Uh huh. That must be why worldwide population has nearly doubled in MY life time (and I'm not exactly Social Security material).

We're running out of resources: fossil fuels, potable water sources, affordable housing, affordable health care, and land used to produce food is shrinking. Even with those grim facts, no one is advocating that people who choose to get pregnant not do so, but being responsible about it is a good idea.

What isn't a good idea is lying to scared and desperate young women, trying to horrify and guilt them into keeping a baby that these same "great Christians" will not be willing to help care for is pretty heinous.

I spent 5-10 minutes looking around and saw NOTHING about birth control which also fits the modus operandi of the nutwing. They're happy to "punish" young woman who fail to be abstinent by forcing them to carry a pregnancy while not letting them know how they can avoid both becoming pregnant and contracting an STD (of course, if the nutwing's own daughters get pregnant, well, that's a different matter; they send the kid to a private doctor and the abortion is billed under health insurance as a wholly different procedure - saw it happen many, many times when I worked at a hospital). These are the same folks who lie and say that a condom and the pill are 70-90% ineffective. I also saw little there in the way of real support for women who want to keep the baby - just fear tactics.

When the best you can do to make your point is to lie, that may be an indication of how strong a case you have (namely, none). Sounds just like a Bushie.