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Trapped by the illogic of her own pro-abortion position

Jul 16, 2013

By Dave Andrusko

Jason Vines

Jason Vines

It’s not the definitive account of a conversation with a pro-abortionist, but nonetheless I found Jason Vines’ “Abortion: Taking it to the streets” immensely interesting.

The setting is as ordinary as it gets. Vines, the former head of communications at Ford, Nissan, Chrysler and Compuware and just back from vacation, tells us he is minding his own business as he walks down the streets of Washington, DC, when a Planned Parenthood supporter buttonholes him.

“Sir,” one of a “smattering” of young ladies in pink shirts with clipboards “cheerfully called to me, ‘can I talk to you a minute about women’s rights?’” (Working in DC I have been in similar situations, which is probably why this brief post interests me so.) Vines writes

“I normally don’t engage, but, with sweat dripping down the back of my neck on a hot day, I decided to go for it. ‘OK,’ I said, ‘If I can ask you a question first.’ Sure, she said.

“’You work for Planned Parenthood, right?” said I (I’m not a mind-reader, her pink shirt had the organization emblazoned on the front). ‘Can we talk about the rights of the little unborn girl – a woman – in her mother’s womb?’”

As you would expect, the young woman quickly no longer is smiling and just as quickly dips into her bag of talking points and finally comes up with a “’right to safe and affordable abortions’ as a ‘woman’s health issue’” as her response.

Vines responds, “’Really? I countered. ‘Isn’t killing an unborn girl in the womb of an otherwise healthy woman the ultimate ‘woman’s health issue’?’”

After which the young woman huffs this is no area for a man to voice an opinion (“Listen, a man shouldn’t be able to determine what a woman can or can’t do with her body”), which, unsurprisingly evokes the question from Vines, then why did you ask my opinion?

Everybody has questions they stumble to answer. In the abortion context, pro-abortion feminists bob and weave, shift and glide—anything to get around the fundamental insanity of promoting abortion for any reason (or none) when more than half the victims are females.

Last week NRL News Today wrote several times about a piece in the New York Times titled, “My Mother’s Abortion,” written by Beth Matusoff Merfish. This was her attempt to square the circle. She did not learn until she was in college that her mother had aborted an older sibling in 1972 when her mother and Merfish’s father were engaged but not married.

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She was initially “shocked” and it took a while for Merfish to turn what must have rocked her soul into a positive. It was enough for Merfish that her mother told her “that her choice was the right one and that her love for my sister and me was unequivocal” and that “she wanted to reassure me that I had no reason to doubt her support in any situation I might face in my own life.”

Add to that that they had both been pro-abortion activists and, well, altogether this “made me even more proud of her and more determined to defend reproductive rights.”

This is absurd on its face and only an abortion advocate unwilling to think this through could come to any other conclusion.

But like the young lady Vines met in Washington, DC, it’s all they’ve got: willful self-deception (Merfish), pro-abortion talking points (the young PPFA supporter).

If you’d like to read more about Merfish, please go to “Some thoughts on ‘My Mother’s Abortion.’”

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Categories: pro-abortion