I’ll never forget the time my girlfriend came back from a planned parenthood in tears because 50 or so women were shouting baby killer and whore at her. The best part is she wasn’t even getting an abortion. She was getting prenatal vitamins for a healthier pregnancy.
What you don't realize is that they're against more than just abortion. Anything that promotes sexual health or sex positivity is of the devil, to them.
Sex is just for married people and JUST for making children in their small world.
I understand that. I just think it's fuckin stupid. Imagine living your entire life in misery because an invisible man in the sky tells you too.
Personally I'm an atheist, my choice my beliefs. But IF there is a God, I have no problem with God, I have a problem with the people who claim to speak for him
No Christian lives in misery by choice. You are confusing cultural morals and Christianity. In Africa they fuck all the time and have no doubt, a lot of Africans are Christian the other is Islamic.
Whatever helps you sleep at night. My atheist ass gives blood regularly. I volunteer regularly and I think organized religion ESPECIALLY Christianity is loaded with hypocrisy and stupidity. Not too mention in the US right now. Christians are the ones causing all the fucking problems
I’m trans and get my HRT through planned parenthood. I frequently get harassed on my way in because they assume I’m getting an abortion when I don’t even have a uterus.
Like other have said -- it's entirely about control.
If you take a long time to talk to one (don't) and really drill down on what they're arguing for (afraid of) it always comes down to control over the woman's body.
I had a sad day last week, drove past my local PP and there were two teenage girls out protesting (signs & all) with anti-abortion signs and some other shit. Their fathers (and mothers, smfh) were there with them.
Anyway, I am continually depressed by the way our education system has failed nearly half of our country. There are more factors but this is the one that I'd climb up onto a hill to die upon. Makes one want to become a teacher... just to do some damn good.
Right but let's just say you believe that abortion was murder. Would the fact that they did other stuff make the murder factory any better? I am pro choice, but I'm just trying to see it how they do.
The abortion part is just icing on their shit-cake.
The logic for those people is these locations give opportunity to have medical support for pregnancy or even sexual wellness that allows people to lead riskier lifestyles.
Therefore, the location promotes moral bankruptcy.
EDIT! guys don't downvote to disagree /u/Oxynewbdone. The guy is asking a fair question as to how someone can unreason themselves to a very reasonable community service.
Never mind the wellness and health checkups, the free/lowcost medicines and services it provides to people. Their argument is predicated on a series of goalposts and mental gymnastics that are not reasonable or logical.
It helps poor people -> poor people are uncivilized -> uncivilized people lead hedonistic lifestyles -> hedonistic people catch STDs and have unwanted children -> it kills babies
it's worse when you add religion to the stack because now they flip the religion on it's head to misrepresent two possible good things the worst way possible. Mind you, Jesus did not hang out with the religious or the chaste. He hung out with prostitutes, foreigners, and criminals. Jesus flipped over tables and chased the religious and chaste with horsewhip.
My issue is with protestors protesting PP as a whole because of abortions. PP offers so many other important services like disease testing and treatment. I’m a male and I use PP for routine STD screenings.
I just don’t think you’re considering what the other side believes (that it is murder).
If there was a library in town that let people check out books, use the internet, gave free classes, and also murdered a few people a day, it doesn’t matter what you think about those other services, you’d surely be against that library.
Why don't they make a sister company that does all the good stuff and the other do abortions? Wouldn't that solve everyone's problems?
Oh wait. Not PP's, because they rely on comments like these to alleviate political and social pressure. If all they did was abortions, a lot fewer people would be happy to defend them.
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u/slugsliveinmymouth 15d ago
I’ll never forget the time my girlfriend came back from a planned parenthood in tears because 50 or so women were shouting baby killer and whore at her. The best part is she wasn’t even getting an abortion. She was getting prenatal vitamins for a healthier pregnancy.