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Two pro-abortionists “fantasize” about a “holistic” approach to abortion

Jun 18, 2015

By Dave Andrusko

abortionloudFrom the pro-abortion side, in the greater scheme of things, what could possibly be a higher priority than “shifting”?

Not just the obvious–shifting the focus from who is being obliterated to “who decides” to dismember the child; or shifting the discussion from the capacity of the unborn child to experience unimaginable levels of pain to almost hygienically “removing fetal tissue.”

I refer to shifting in the sense of taking the onus off of destroying 57 million unborn children and placing it squarely on the shoulders of pro-lifers who, we are told, are single-handedly responsible for the “stigma” of abortion. In other words, if we would just go away, women would “process” their abortions and everything would be hunky dory for everyone (everyone, that is, but the unborn child).

There are as many strategies from our benighted opposition to “de-stigmatize” abortions as there are excuses for the brutality of abortion. NRL News Today writes about them all the time.

But I found “Texas Abortion Provider Launches Program to ‘Shift’ Abortion Stigma: A Q&A With Amy Hagstrom Miller and Amanda Williams” particularly fascinating. It’s a long interview which you can read here. So allow me to talk about just four points that we learn in this story about the new pro-abortion non-profit “Shift” which they evidently see as a kind of combination think-tank and place for people to come and see what a “real” abortion clinic looks like.

#1. First there is, shall we say, real ambivalence about the mad rush to have women tell their abortion stories.” They want lots of people to talk about abortion, not just the women who’ve had them.

#2. There are a number of hints about “bad providers,” as if the names of Kermit Gosnell and Steven Brigham should be quotation marks rather than treated as the two barbarians they are. Miller says

I want to figure out a way to support and train providers to go out into the world and have a place where we work through “Why am I hiding in the shadows?” Or, “Am I participating in the stigma on some levels?” And can we facilitate some conversations about the “bad provider”?

To which Williams adds

Because right now we kind of just ignore them.

Miller seems resigned to the “photographs” and

whether they’re of Gosnell or Steve Brigham, and anti-choicers [are] going to use those clinics as examples of every abortion. And the abortion provider doesn’t have any sympathy in the public.

So, given that there ARE Gosnells and Brighams and pro-lifers WILL remind the public (with little to no help from the “mainstream media”) what’s the answer? Miller again in a statement that is amazing on multiple levels

So this is where I see: Oh, we’ve got to tell a more nuanced story about why we do this work. What is this work? It’s not just uterus-emptying. But we’ve got to be able to talk about the service. And our avoidance of it? People see it. They see it so clearly. I want to, behind the scenes at first, work on our stuff. So that we don’t leave what my friend Charlotte Taft calls the “crumbs at the picnic.” We have a picnic and we don’t clean up and anti-choicers grab every little crumb. Abortion, money! Ooh, “late-term” abortion! Fetal pain! Oh, sex-selection! I could make a list of all the things that all of us are terrified of being asked about. That’s totally by design.

“Crumbs at the picnic”? The oodles of money the abortion industry makes, the corrupt abortionists, the grim truth that babies are aborted because they are girls, are aborted virtually up until birth, and are killed in procedures so violent, so vicious, and so inhuman that we would NOT allow to be used on an animal. “Crumbs at the picnic”?

#3. Take a minute to read the nostalgia for the “mom and pop” abortion clinics. This pulls double duty. First, a not so subtle slam at the corporatization of the abortion industry. Second, according to Miller (who does most of the talking),

I think we could do some storytelling about clinics like the Feminist Women’s Health Clinic in Atlanta, or of Emma Goldman in Iowa City or Tammi’s clinic in North Dakota. That could be part of what we try to do to talk about what good abortion [care] looks like, without talking about “bad providers.”

Finally

#4. In the Miller/Williams world, abortions and abortion care will be “holistic.” They are the future. In one of the great lines anywhere, Miller says

So some folks who are just in the medical model, emptying the uterus safely, are kind of old-school. We can go in and help them retire gracefully and take what started in the 1970s forward into the next generation.

And while they are busy encouraging the oldsters to “retire gracefully,” we will continue to encourage young doctors to heal rather than kill.

After all the only real future is one where unborn children are welcomed in love and protected by law.

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