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A Pro-abortionist’s take on the 2013 NRLC National Convention tells us more about her than it does about us

Jul 2, 2013

By Dave Andrusko

Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst

Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst

As it happens I unknowingly ran across Andrea Grimes multiple times at last week’s National Right to Life convention in Dallas, Texas. I didn’t have a clue she was a pro-abortionist who had come to the convention to write a post mocking, ridiculing, and above all expressing “pity” for the nearly 1,000 activists who had assembled at the Hyatt Hotel.

As is so often is the case when pro-abortionists mingle with the riff-raff (that would be us), there is this jolting cognitive dissonance between the monsters they tell themselves we are and the well-mannered, respectful, loving people they encounter. Specifically, Grimes wrote

“I came to NRLC ready to find myself surrounded by fired up right-wingers revved up with the glory of their God.

“Instead, I found a few hundred unfailingly polite white people, mostly middle-aged or older, shuffling sedately from conference room to conference room. It was, in a word, jarring.”

What to do? What else but to dismiss us as hapless lap dogs for politicians who care not a twit about abortion; as sexists because descriptions of the cartoon “Umbert the Unborn” referred to “he”; and as so out of step that we couldn’t realize that women would die in Texas if the omnibus pro-life bill pro-abortionists shouted down is passed in a second Special Session.

Of course, the Texas officeholders who spoke—Gov. Rick Perry, Sen. Ted Cruz, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, and Attorney General Greg Abbot—were and are genuinely pro-life but to even partially acknowledge that would be to hollow out her already rickety argument. And to find  “deeply unsettling” the reference to Umbert as “he” tells you far, far more about Grimes’ tiresome political correctness than it does about us.

But what about the specifics of the bill, which had been filibustered and shouted down by an unruly mob, but resubmitted Monday? How is it that Texas women would die if it became law?

Note first, not a syllable from Grimes about a key component of the law—

Preborn Pain. If it becomes law there will be protection from abortion for unborn children who are capable of feeling pain. Only “nice” people would have the poor form to talk about ripping heads off of torsos, injecting poison into the womb (or the child herself), or—in the case of Kermit Gosnell—aborting the child alive and then severing the child’s spinal cord. Nope, not a word about the deaths of THOSE human beings.

To the closed pro-abortion mind (which of course is a redundancy), there is always and forever a zero learning curve. That abortion clinics are often filthy pits, completely unregulated by the states, is just something pro-lifers make up, never mind the many stories in the press that demonstrate that this is true (including at Planned Parenthood clinics). Thus, it is not an expression of concern for women to require that abortions be performed at an ambulatory surgical center and the abortionist be required to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles, in case there are complications, but the very opposite.

Likewise to Grimes and other abortion apologists, chemical abortions (RU-486) are a walk in the park. Let’s not admit for a second that women die from this two-drug abortion technique or that thousands have experienced “adverse effects.” Again, to require that the abortionist administer chemical abortifacients in person, rather than via videoconferencing where he is never in the same room, is not only unnecessary but an expression of our indifference to (if not hostility) to women’s health.

Grimes has a really difficult time pigeonholing Joleigh Little’s workshop on the “Myth of the Unwanted Child.” Grimes obviously admires Joleigh’s own decision to adopt a child from Bulgaria with special needs—a child who is the light of Joleigh’s life—but misses the whole point of the workshop. Or, more accurately, misstates the real solution for children who need homes. My guess is that as much as she would wish otherwise, Grimes was changed by what she heard.

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In a nutshell pro-lifers are too nice—unlike the raucous pro-abortion crowd that harangued Texas legislators who Grimes so admires–and too old—never mind that there were young people everywhere. (We can’t know whether Grimes honestly didn’t know there was a parallel convention for young people going on at the very same time, or chose to ignore it because that would clash with her conclusion.)

But that’s okay. I find it hugely amusing when pro-abortionists are so condescending. This is often not only a back-handed compliment—we aren’t cool enough to be foul-mouthed or unbelievably tasteless in our conduct—but proof-positive they also haven’t a clue what motivates us.

Maybe if a few more of them had attended Joleigh’s workshop….

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